Medical Tourism in Thailand: When Treatment Costs and Starbucks Clash

June 29, 2015

(Medical Tourism Magazine) – The National Legislative Assembly backed those claims, concluding in a report that private hospitals charged upward of four times the cost of similar procedures at public facilities including those for acute coronary thrombosis, and appendix, knee joint, and cataract surgeries as well as treatments for colds. Throwing further fuel on the fire, the survey went on to claim that private hospitals where Starbucks could be purchased charged almost three times more for treatment than at healthcare facilities from which the U.S.-based coffee chain did not do business.