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Private Equity Firms Buying Ortho Practices – What’s That About?
I've been helping private equity investors focus on orthopedic surgery as federal regulators and insurers move more of these treatments away from hospitals. ...
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A group of local investors tired of being forced to drive to Salt Lake City and Las Vegas for access to medical and surgical specialists have engaged Maria Todd to research a new physician specialty clinic project to meet the needs of patients from St George, Ivins, Washington, Santa Clara, and other...
Continue reading63 Must Know Data Points to Bridge the Gap on Meaningful Medical Tourism Market Data
You’ve seen it time and time again. Some publisher has published yet another new report that highlights the market size and potential of the medical tourism / health travel / medical travel market size and opportunity. The cost to access this report is often more than USD $1000. And...
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How Well Do You Know Your Medical or Dental Tourism Customer? In order to plan better marketing and branding strategy, the data in the checklist below should be gathered by your international patient department liaison from each and every medical or dental tourism patient Let’s imagine for a moment that...
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by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare International As a firm that coordinates corporate health travel, we are frequently asked to coordinate checkups and medical travel for groups of executives and their companion travelers. Often, they are planning to travel anyway for a corporate meeting or event, a training course,...
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by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO and Founder Mercury Healthcare International, Inc. Many medical tourism facilitators open their business without any medical knowledge or training. To me, that’s as crazy as deciding to open a piano tuning business because you can tell black keys from white keys and you know that people with...
Continue readingWhat Impact Will A Trump Presidency Have On Medical Travel From The USA?
by Maria K Todd, MHA PhD CEO & Founder Mercury Healthcare International As a CEO of a long-established and successful American health travel firm, in the wake of yesterday’s unexpected turn of events, I find myself looking for “lemonade” recipes to make something good of this unanticipated basket of lemons laid on my table....
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