Medical Care In Costa Rica
People ask us about medical care in Costa Rica. The quality, the availability etc. The quality is excellent and some of the private hospitals and private clinics here offer world class quality care and probably a far superior bed side manner than an north american is used to.
The social medicare is also a very high quality standards however the main difference between the social medical system and the private medicare offered in Costa Rica would be the waiting time. Where there is virtually no wait for private medical care and attention, the socially run system is the most widely used by most all Costa Rican nationals and therefore we have the waiting.
Cosmetic surgery for foreigners has become very popular here in Costa Rica. Fabulous facilities, extremely professional attention and all the state of the art medical equipment and services offered and very affordable prices. A breast implant procedure that can run up to US$ 8500 in the USA, this same procedure will cost $3500 maximum here in Costa Rica.
Intelligent surgery rooms are available in Costa RIca and have put Costa Rica's medical procedures popularity as being at the top of the heap with some of the best North American and European hospitals in the world.
In Costa RIca you have an intelligent choice if you need to go to a surgery room. An integrated surgery room provides patients surgical procedures with less risk of infection, faster recovery, less bleeding, and fewer anesthetic interventions.
According to Dr. Jorge Cortes director of the privately owned hospital Clinica Biblica, where this service is available, the operating room has a complete surgical equipment platform with high definition imaging in which any kind of surgery can be conducted.
"The intelligent or integrated operating room enables laparoscopic surgeries which are surgical techniques performed through small incisions and some even thriugh the navel" explaines Dr Cortes.
As stated by Dr. Cortes, this new technology provides a decrease of 30% in the duration of surgeries and it places Costa Rica in the vanguard and at the same level of the best hospitals in the United States, Europe and Asia where this technology is commonplace.
For all of you reading this newsletter, you would probably be interested to know whether as foreigners, can you have access to the medical system in Costa RIca? The answer is yes you can. Both the social subsidized medicare system and the private medicare insurance. The approximate cost for the private medical insurance for a man aged 47 years, you will pay approximately US$ 887.00 per year with US$ 250,000 of coverage. Now here in Costa RIca that is an extremely large amount of coverage that more than adequately covers any possible medical emergency or care required here in this country.
In closing as part of Costa Rica Property Sales complete real estate services and the R.E.A.D Organization Personal Advisors in Central America, we go beyond just the purchase and sale of a property. We help our clients get the right advise, do the right things with the right professionals wherever their personal needs require. From insurance matters, banking and establishing bank accounts, opening corporations, purchasing vehicles,construction permitting and land planning for development even establishing a full time resident visa status without giving up your US citizenship.
This service mention by no means implies we do all of this for you, however we certainly are involved in making sure all that you want to do is done correctly and done with the right professionals in a cost effective and time efficient manner through our vast professional resources (Bilingual) that we place at our clients disposal.
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