Australian Medical Association Warns NIB Turning Healthcare into a Commodity with Medical Tourism Business

March 31, 2014

(Herald Sun) – MEDICAL and security concerns have been raised about the new medical tourism business run by health fund NIB offering offshore plastic surgery packages. The health fund announced this week it was offering patients a 12-month guarantee on foreign surgery if they used overseas hospitals and doctors it had vetted. The business is a threat to high charging Australian doctors and the Australian Medical Association has warned it is turning health care into a commodity.