TRIPLE CARDIAC BYPASS SURGERY STORY ON NBC, WOAI TV, TEXAS

Reported by: Jaie Avila, NBC TV - WOAI.com, Texas, USA

What if you found out you needed an expensive medical procedure and insurance wouldn't cover the cost.

Faced with that situation, some Texans have decided to travel to another country to get medical care at a fraction of the price.

News 4 Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila investigates what's called 'medical tourism'.

Instead of checking into their local hospital, some patients are booking a flight, and combining medical treatment with leisure time.

There are companies that will set it all up.

Buddies Steve Roach and Frank Murphy watch the video they shot during their vacation to India last November.

They got to see the Taj Mahal, the market places, some snake charmers.

Then, Steve stopped into a hospital for a triple by-pass surgery.

"Since I had limited insurance, I knew I was going to get stuck with a big bill," says Steve. He says he could not afford the cost of a triple by-pass in the States.

"[The] hospital alone was $48,000 to $80,000. Plus, the cost of the doctor and the anesthesiologist and medication and all of that. You're looking for $100,000, probably."

A company Steve found on the internet, called Healthbase, matched him up with a hospital in New Delhi that would do the surgery for only $12,000, including doctor's fees, lab tests and medication. The company tells patients to bring a companion along, so Steve's co-worker, Frank Murphy, made the trip and was allowed to stay in the same large hospital room.

"The hospital was kept extremely clean," says Frank of the facility. "I think the care and the facilities were pretty much equal to, or maybe superior to, in some respects, to what one would experience here in the United States in the same circumstance."

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TRIPLE CARDIAC BYPASS SURGERY STORY ON NBC, WOAI TV, TEXAS