ABSTRACT
How does the liability exposure of the medical travel industry aect you? e question that seems to be on everyone’s mind is,“What if something goes wrong for a medical traveler?”
Stakeholders have done a good job in setting standards of care for the medical travel industry. ere is an AMA recommendation on the topic of medical tourism. In addition there are many other studies and scholars who have explored and published „ndings about the criteria for setting benchmarks for quality care in the medical travel industry. Stakeholders are using provider credentialing tools, developing procedures for medical records, hiring medical professionals to advise patients, implementing privacy protections, and introducing many other services to provide highquality care and service to medical travelers. However, the industry is still in the developmental stages of setting self-regulating guidelines to determine what the quality and safety requirements should include and where the liability for administrators, facilitators, hospitals, employers, and individuals begins and ends.
