Cross-border health care - the key to a sustainable health care coverage in border regions?

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care

Public Provision and Cross-Border Health Care

We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek publicly financed treatment in other regions. We find that, relative to the first-best solution, the government has an incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When crossborder health care takes place, this incentive is solely explained by that overprovis...

Canadian physicians’ responses to cross border health care

BACKGROUND The idea for this survey emanated from desk research and two meetings for researchers that discussed medical tourism and out-of-country health care, which were convened by some of the authors of this article (VR, CP and RL). METHODS A Cross Border Health Care Survey was drafted by a number of the authors and administered to Canadian physicians via the Canadian Medical Association's...

Cross-border health care represents a key issue in the field of rare diseases

The Veneto Region, north-east of Italy, 4.7 million inhabitants, is interested by this phenomenon, both for its geographical position, a hinge between Eastern and Western European countries, and for the presence of specialised health care services, most of which are specifically addressed to RD patients. The aim of the study is to analyse patients’ mobility in Veneto Region, especially from Eas...

Recalibrating the legal risks of cross-border health care.

Three patients leave the United States for surgery. The first is self-employed and has no health insurance. He needs life-prolonging heart surgery that would cost at least $50,000 in the United States. On the Internet, he finds a cardiac surgeon at a private hospital in New Delhi, India, who can perform the surgery for no more than $10,000.1 Terms and conditions on the hospital’s website requir...