Medical Tourism
Rising healthcare costs, coupled with an increasing population of uninsured and underinsured individuals and baby boomers, is giving rise to a growing demand for medical tourism. With US hospitals and insurers considering offering services around the world, as well as international healthcare providers and hospitality companies expanding their services to cater to medical tourists, we offer an international healthcare and hospitality practice to match these evolving requirements.
With experienced lawyers throughout the world, we can guide clients through the maze of healthcare, corporate, liability, tax, labor, financing, immigration and hospitality issues associated with medical tourism. We can also draw upon our global footprint to leverage our experience working with associated insurance and regulatory issues in the US, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America to help clients looking to enter this dynamic market.
Our lawyers advise hospitals, employers, insurers, governments and new ventures in structuring their medical tourism initiatives. Representative services include:
- Cross-border hospital affiliations
- Structuring capital finance
- Joint ventures
- Public-private partnerships
- Offsets
- Joint operative agreements
- Management agreements
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Establishment of medical tourism zones
Our lawyers frequently help medical travel facilitators establish and expand their businesses. Representative services include:
- Determining the best legal structure for the entity and managing all the necessary steps in establishing the new entity.
- Drafting privacy policies and terms and conditions of use for the entity’s website.
- Drafting agreements with medical travel facilitator clients, offshore hospitals and healthcare providers.
- Drafting agreements and assisting in negotiations with employers and health plans seeking to access established medical tourist networks.
Leveraging Our Hospitality Practice
We have a long and proud tradition of representing clients in the hospitality and leisure industry around the world including major hotel chains, as well as the developers, owners, operators and financiers that make these deals happen. With the rare experience of representing clients on every side of a deal, we have a well-rounded perspective on all issues any client is likely to face
Our well-known strength in finance and corporate law bolsters our success in hospitality and leisure joint ventures, acquisitions and financings. We also are seasoned authorities in public-private partnerships, often one of the most challenging structures for developing and financing hotels.