Medical Tourism

A New Approach to Consumer-Directed Health Care

Rising health care costs, coupled with an increasing population of uninsured and underinsured individuals, is giving rise to a growing demand for medical tourism. With US hospitals and insurers considering offering services around the world, as well as international healthcare providers and hospitality companies expanding their services to cater to medical tourists, we offer an international health care and hospitality practice to match these evolving requirements. With experienced lawyers throughout the world, we can guide clients through the maze of health care and hospitality issues associated with medical tourism. We can also draw upon our global footprint to leverage our experience working with associated insurance and regulatory issues arising in the United States through to corporate and real estate issues in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Latin America – to help clients looking to enter this dynamic market.

With medical tourism, medical service providers offer patients first class care at significantly reduced rates, often in an exotic locale. The approach is appealing to US health insurers, patients and employers looking to reduce health care costs. With international accreditation and doctors trained in the US or UK, international providers are able to promote medical tourism as a means by which patients can receive the same quality care and array of services as in their local hospital, but at dramatically reduced rates.

Leveraging Our Hospitality Practice

Our firm has a long and proud tradition of representing clients in the hospitality and leisure industry around the world including major hotel chains as well as the developers, owners, operators and financiers that make these deals happen. With the rare experience of representing clients on every side of a deal, we have a unique and well-rounded perspective on all issues any client is likely to face.

Our well-known strength in finance and corporate law bolsters our success in hospitality and leisure joint ventures, acquisitions and financings. We also are seasoned authorities in public-private partnerships, often one of the most challenging structures for developing and financing hotels.

Designing Successful Compliance Programs

We can assist in developing and creating regulatory compliance programs and represent providers before regulatory agencies and respond to criminal and civil investigations. In addition, we can guide international and US clients through regulatory concerns related to taxation, accreditation, licensing, data privacy and labor relations, as well as structuring relationships between US and non-US entities.