LAURA CARABELLO

Medical Travel

Due to the economic downfall and the rising cost of medical procedures in the United States, more and more Americans are looking for options to lower their health care costs . Since there is a growing number of people that are unable to pay for medical treatments due to being uninsured or underinsured, medical travel has become a growing trend.

Laura Carabello, publisher/managing editor of Medical Travel Today, comes on the show to discuss how medical travel can be safe and help cut healthcare costs.

LAURA CARABELLO has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in both domestic and international businesses related to healthcare and technology since 1985. Her fields of experience span from healthcare and healthcare information technology to hard core technology disciplines and related infrastructure. She has a particular interest in medical travel, healthcare/healthcare information technology, managed care and employee benefits, pharmaceuticals and other business-to-business and direct-to-consumer healthcare and technology companies. She has been instrumental in the growth and development of companies worldwide and has orchestrated their transition to a Web-centric world.

She is the publisher/managing editor of Medical Travel Today, the authoritative, online business-to-business international newsletter of the medical tourism industry

Melanie Cole, M.S.

4 / 21 / 2010