Post-op care is perhaps the most important part of any surgery, especially when factoring in the global health industry.   Any post-op includes the danger of blood clots or deep vein thrombosis, which is a kind of blood clot but of a more serious nature.  Because medical tourism includes flying to another country, and for many hours often, the flight actually exacerbates the chances of developing a blood clot and other serious side effects.  Perhaps the other issue which worries people the most regards who provides the post-op care.  Stability is important in any post-op care.  Switching from the overseas doctor to the primary physician can make for more mistakes.   Further, primary physicians might refuse to manage post-op care because the patient chose an overseas doctor: medicine and techniques can vary from country to county slightly, but enough to scare off doctors local to a patient.

The main way in which the medical industry overseas assuages such concerns is through contracts.  Cheaper than health insurance, these contracts allow the doctors and the patients to sort out the details of a procedure without the colossal expenditures from an insurance company.  Because health insurance companies force numerous lines of communication and copious paperwork, it makes a surgery more costly because of the effort to make healthcare plans.  The contracts are similar to health insurance plans but more straightforward, a quality that makes the surgeries insured more affordable.
Perhaps the other facet of global healthcare making people nervous is the language barrier.  Though most countries with medical tourism have English speakers, there is still a fear of their words being lost in translation.

A contract solves this problem.  For those in the United States—where researchers expect predominance of medical tourism to come from within the subsequent years—the hospitals always provide the contracts in English.  For instance, in India, English is widely spoken.  It eliminates any concerns about the language barrier, allowing for people to better specify their surgery and convalescence care.  A majority of flights to and from India can be made one-stop flights, which means less stress and fewer opportunities for complications.  The other way in which hospitals make postoperative better suited to patients is through the credentials of surgeons.  These surgeons typically received their education through a United Kingdom or United States hospital because westerners a large part of the medical tourism income.  Familiarity is the primary means by which global health hospitals help make recuperation easier.