2009-11-16 18:41:25 - Weight Loss Surgery, the quickest and most effective way for a person to lose weight permanently is being adopted by surgery centers abroad in order to offer Americans safe and inexpensive options to having it done at home. Although Medical Travel is a trend that has been around for a while, and almost all weight loss surgeons in Mexico can name a US patient of theirs, several surgical centers in Mexico are working on gaining efficiency and driving great volume in order to cater to an ever increasing budget-conscious patient segment looking for cheap weight loss surgery.

“Even if our offering includes the top surgeons and hospitals in Mexico for prices such as an inexpensive lap band surgery at between $6,800 and $8,500, which is literally half the US price, lots of interaction with our target market showed us that there is still demand to pay less.” states Travel For Care’s CEO, Gabriel Senior. However, entering the territory for cheap lap bands (below $6,000) is something facilitators and patients must research well before proceeding. Since such prices are something that can be offered by either a less renowned doctor, or a famous doctor working in a less expensive hospital or clinic, Travel For Care decided to find options like the latter.

The first network extension was done by

including Dr. Miguel Angel Zapata, MD, a very successful bariatrician from Monterrey, Mexico which operates out of Clinica Vitro. This combination allowed Travel For Care to break the previous price barriers and offer an inexpensive gastric bypass at $10,550 and an affordable lap band surgery at $5,900. The next step will be to look carefully at an affordable bariatry clinic in Tijuana that has been focusing on gaining efficiency and driving patient volume, therefore becoming unbelievably competitive in price, albeit complying with Travel For Care’s decision of maintaining high standards with regards to the surgeon in charge. With this new clinic the company is exploring offering one of the cheapest gastric bypass surgeries in the market, introduced at the special price of $8,499 and also an inexpensive gastric band for just $4,990.

The current market of around 220,000 weight loss surgeries performed in the US every year is poised to continue its double digit growth now that clinics south of the border are gaining efficiency and competing for volume. What some American patients are finding when they look for deeply discounted bariatry options is now much better than what they used to. As in any product in an adoption phase, weight loss surgery is still growing leaps and bounds while it becomes more and more affordable, and will soon benefit millions of citizens living with obesity.

Dr. Zapata operates at several of Monterrey’s best regarded healthcare institutions, including Clinica Vitro, a employee-benefits hospital owned by a large Mexican group, which is also open to the public.

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

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