Startup VoyagerMed is turning the notion of medical tourism on its head. Rather than finding lower-cost care for Americans overseas, the New York-based company is bringing people from around the world to doctors in the U.S.
And now, two-year-old VoyagerMed is preparing to launch a telehealth initiative aims to connect more Chinese patients to U.S. physicians.
Typically, medical tourism is designed to help people travel to places where medical procedures are less expensive. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 750,000 people travel from the U.S. to other countries for medical care each year.
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