Bumrungrad Hospital offers a rhinoplasty (nose job) procedure for approximately US$2,500. The same procedure in the UK will cost about US$5,000 while in the United States will cost about US$6,000. Breast augmentation is an extremely popular procedure in the US and can range from US$5,000 to US$8,000 while the cost in the UK is about US$6,500. You can have the same procedure done at Bumrungrad Hospital for US$2,250.

Bangkok Phuket Hospital, on the island of Phuket, can perform a Heart Bypass surgery for approximately US$12,000. The price for the same procedure in the US begins at US$66,000 and can easily rise to US$150,000 and in the UK the procedure can actually cost upwards of US$200,000.

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The best part about treatment in Bangkok, Thailand is that you enjoy world-class medical advantages at a fraction of the cost in comparison with destinations like US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Here are some examples of your medical price savings as well as some of your medical questions answered as such;

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) is the reason for 55.7% of hospital stays.

Next on the list is angioplasty, accounting for 48.7% of hospital stays.

And what do you save when you get treated in Bangkok, Thailand? If you come for bypass surgery, you will save over 75%, even after taking airfares and local stay into consideration.

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By and large, medical tourists are travelling for specialty medical and surgical services. The recent surge in the popularity of plastic surgery, however, has led to a new wave of medical tourists and headlines like “Sun, sea and surgery” or “Scalpel tourism” have helped create buzz for this emerging phenomenon. Medical tourism destinations such as Bangkok, Thailand promotes the benefit of high-quality medical care as just one more reason to visit the kingdom.

Elective out-patient procedures like check-ups, dental care, LASIK are becoming increasingly popular and there is a growing interest on the part of the tourism industry to include these services as part of their travel packages. Higher intensity medical services, like spinal and cardiac surgery, pose a bigger challenge because these medical services are not as easily packaged and require significantly more knowledge about medicine.
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Medical tourism is a relatively new term to describe a growing number of people worldwide that travel abroad for healthcare. Why these people travel and for what varies, but essentially there are two types of medical tourists – the leisure tourist that incorporates a visit to the doctor for some minor treatment, as part of his or her vacation, and the tourist travelling specifically for medical treatment.
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A growing number of tourists to Thailand are combining holidays with health care. In 2004, 600,000 foreign patients sought treatment in Bangkok, Thailand, a figure that is expected to grow by 66 percent in 2006 with approximately one million foreign patients travelling to Bangkok, Thailand for medical treatment and health services.

With world class surgeons, highly esteemed research professors, and the latest technology, Thailand’s medical services add a new dimension to its long tradition of hospitality to foreign visitors.

The Thai medical profession is probably one of the most advanced in the region. Successive governments have invested in ensuring the education and training Thai doctors receive is parallel to that offered elsewhere in the region. Many doctors undertake specialist training abroad, particularly the United States and Europe and are at least equally as well qualified as physicians in the west – often more so. Many large private hospitals are also staffed with translators to assist foreigners in communicating with medical professionals.

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