Man Up with Sexual Reassignment Surgery in Thailand

Medical Tourism Provides Cost Reduction of Sex Reassignment Surgery

Who knew you could vacation and have your medical treatment in Bangkok, Thailand for less than the cost of the same sex reassignment surgery procedure in the United States?  Lower labor costs and fewer regulatory bureaucracies allow Thai hospitals to offer dramatic discounts to patients.  Even the cost of non life-threatening procedures like sex reassignment surgery affords savings to partakers of medical tourism.  With its low cost of medical procedures and high specialization in gender reassignments, some consider Bangkok to be the “capital of sex reassignment surgery.”  State of the art facilities like Preecha Aesthetic Institute, don’t just make you look like a man or woman, they literally transform you from the outside in: from Adam’s apple contouring to facial feminization surgery. 

Thai Vacations Alleviate Plastic Surgery Prices

Americans are turning in droves to other countries for medical procedures.  Thailand has positioned itself as one of the destination leaders in the medical tourism phenomenon.  The New York Times reports that Thailand’s Bumrungrad International Hospital, one of the leading hospitals in medical tourism worldwide, accepts over 55,000 American patients each year.  Among those are patients seeking plastic surgery at significantly reduced prices.  According to Healism, “traveling to countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Costa Rica, and India for medical and dental treatments cost about 20 to 80% less than at US [facilities].”  The combination of increased numbers of gender reassignment patients and significant cost savings have made medical tourism to Thailand affordable and help to ensure quality medical care. 

Medical Tourism Growing Option for Uninsured

The cost of sex reassignment surgery may be more difficult to coax insurance companies into covering, compared to a serious or life-threatening condition.  However, for the 47-million-plus Americans who are uninsured, that’s a moot point.  Medical tourism to places like Thailand gives those who can’t afford the high costs of insurance the opportunity for affordable procedures.  Even for those with medical insurance covering portions of the bill, the exasperating costs still leave unaffordable remainders.  Medical tourism is quickly becoming a more viable option for American patients, encouraging continued growth in the industry.

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