Lowe’s Starts Cardiac Surgery Medical Tourism Program With Cleveland Clinic

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Working with Cleveland Clinic, North Carolina-based Lowe’s Companies, Inc. has developed a U.S.-based medical tourism benefit, based on quality-of-care, for its full-time employees and their covered dependents needing heart surgery. Lowe’s contracted with Cleveland Clinic because it has consistently received high quality rankings for its cardiac care programs for the past 15 years. Lowe’s pays the Clinic a flat rate for all surgery-related services,  and covers transportation and lodging costs for the patient and a caregiver, all medical deductibles and co . . .