Companion Global Healthcare

BCBS of South Carolina has been a progressive Blues plan for years.  Under Ed Sellers’ leadership, they have tried new services and built new businesses.  It was surprising, but not shocking, to see that they had opened a new company called Companion Global Healthcare which is a medical tourism company to help people get costly surgeries and care outside the US.

I talked about this whole business a few months ago (old entry).   But, seeing BCBS-SC and HealthNet of CA [who has been working with a Mexican healthplan for 6 years] focus on this and take advantage of these services is an interesting development and says a lot about the status of our system.

Here is another article in the Providence Journal.