Colorado Public Radio: Triple cardiac bypass surgery in India CABG for American
TRIPLE CARDIAC BYPASS SURGERY TESTIMONIAL
Photo: Barbara and Joe with Dr. Naresh Trehan
Excerpts from Healthbase customer's interview on Colorado Public Radio:
Host [H]: How is your husband doing? Barbara [B]: He is doing very well.
[H]: You went to India for care. How long was he there? [B]: We were there 3 weeks.
[H]: So you went there as well. Why did you decide to go abroad for care? [B]: Because he did not want to have surgery here. And we found that the services abroad and the cost were a great deal less expensive.
[H]: Its a great deal less expensive there. How much less expensive? [B]: The surgery over here would have been well over a hundred thousand dollars. And by the time I left India I paid nine thousand dollars for the surgery.
[H]: Wow! Thats 10% of the cost in the US. [B]: Absolutely.
[H]: Are you including in that airfare at all? [B]: No, sir. That doesnt include the airfare. Thats just what the hospital charges were.
[H]: Now you said your husband did not want have the surgery here. Did he feel the quality would be better abroad? [B]: The doctor overseas were more open with him about what he needed and what the problems were. And the other big problem here is fighting with the insurance company to actually get them to cover what they say they will cover. And meeting heart surgery you dont need the stress of having to fight with the insurance company to get what you have paid for.
[H]: Did you have any reservations about this? I mean we talked about the quality of care but did you think, gosh, are the facilities and the doctors going to be as good in India? [B]: Based on the profile that the company [Healthbase] provided on their website I was quite comfortable with what I was reading.
[H]: These are medical tourism travel agencies then? [B]: Yes. They [Healthbase] provided the doctors bio and all of the procedures that they have performed and what their success rate is and their 0.2% infection rate. I was quite comfortable with what they were saying.
[H]: So I gather that what that means is that when you went there, when you walked in that door it was a pretty telling time, probably started looking around. [B]: It was obvious from the beginning. They picked us up from the airport. We were taken right to the hospital and he was checked in and the next morning they started immediately with the testing and the interviews with the doctor, pre-surgery interviews.
[H]: I wanted to ask you about follow-up care. When the doctors who performed the surgery are half a world away, what happens in those subsequent weeks and months? [B]: He had an appointment with his cardiologist here before we left. He knew that we were traveling to India. And just a week ago, he had an appointment with the cardiologist just to be checked out so he could see where he was at, at this point.
[H]: I wonder if his cardiologist had any misgivings about the fact that you were leaving the country to get the procedure done. [B]: Other than asking why, he was very positive about it.
[H]: I think I know the answer to this question but if you had to do it over again, would you? [B]: Yes, in a heart beat.
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