Overseas treatment minefield - ADA

The Australian Dental Association has urged people to be careful before having dental and medical procedures conducted overseas.
Association President Dr Karin Alexander says some dental and medical procedures are complex and carry risks and, if done overseas, can result in complications leading to expensive remedial work.

Dr Alexander was commenting on health insurer nib announcing plans to sell offshore surgical and dental packages to Australia.
She said:  “It strikes the ADA as very odd that a private health insurer that boasts it provides excellent value for money for its ancillary cover would advocate to Australians the ability to go overseas to receive treatment, instead of having the work done here where the insurer provides them with health cover. Could this merely be a ploy to avoid liability to pay rebates for treatment and to improve the insurer’s profitability?”