The most trusted resource in medical travel. Home - Joint Commission International. Few U.S. Medical Tourists Go Overseas For Care : Shots - Health Blog. Remember all those stories about Americans in search of cheap health care heading south of the border, or to the Far East, as medical tourists?
Hide captionFew Americans are heading south of the border to Mexico and other countries for health care. iStockphoto.com Turns out there may not be as many as the hype led us to believe. That, at least, is the conclusion researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine came to with a survey published online last month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Medical Tourism Q&A.