Absolutely.  As in the United States and other countries, the quality of the hospitals and doctors vary: investigation is the greatest way of determining a qualified doctor anywhere, whether in a home country or a foreign country.  Costa Rica, for instance, claims some of the most proficient doctors, and because of the quality of the medical staff in general, the nation is a leading location for medical tourism.  Part of what makes Costa Rica a good choice for citizens in the United States is not only its proximity and inexpensiveness—a plane ticket costs around two hundred to four hundred dollars round trip—but also the fact that the country has employees working in the United States.  It allows for better quality service that responds to any trends or critiques of their work swiftly.  Additionally, it permits more candid, and thusly easier, exchanges between the two countries.  Any worries or concerns on the part of a possible patient can be resolved quicker.

Medical tourism countries actually contract with surgeons and doctors at bargained rates for their expertise and service.  Because of this kind of setup, it lowers the cost for the patient: there is no middle man with the hospital.  Medical tourist organizations eliminate hospital legalese, paperwork, and trouble through a contract.  It is a more straightforward approach still providing great services.  The other positive facet of a contract is that it furnishes patients with an opportunity to correspond with the doctors in a less complicated way before without signing up for a surgery, or any service for that matter.

Medical tourist hospitals are also far pickier about the surgeons employed because there is more danger for them in those choices.  The industry has started to provide a large economic basis for several of the countries offering global health, and as such, those countries cannot afford—literally—to employ mediocre surgeons and doctors.  In the beginning, medical tourism primarily focused on dental and cosmetic procedures, but with the health insurance debate growing, more serious procedures—bariatric, spinal, reconstructive, hip surgeries—are also more common, and require the finest doctors.

The doctors are experts in their field, having worked overseas, and often in numerous locations, and hence sustaining more than a cursory familiarity with western hospitals and techniques.

The top medical tourist locations also have arrangements with certified programs or hospitals in their country offering further assurance to worried patients.  To make patients in the United States—a top country for the global medical industry cliental—and other Westerners more secure about the staff in medical tourist countries, the staff members hired are often fluent in English.  Medical tourists need not be troubled or anxious about any surgery or procedure if prior research was thorough and detailed.