Most medical tourism sites are affiliate flippers with no ground presence, no vetting, and no accountability. That's a problem when the product is elective surgery on your eyes.
LASIK International is the top-of-funnel research hub for a network of medical tourism sites operated by Scout Theory LLC — an Ohio-registered company with physical operations in Medellín, Colombia. We live where our patients travel. We know the surgeons. We've been inside the clinics. That's the difference.
What we do
We compare the cost, safety, and procedure availability of laser vision correction across 12 international destinations. We update prices quarterly, verify surgeon credentials through public registries (ReTHUS in Colombia, GMC in the UK, ABMS in the US, etc.), and score every clinic against the same six criteria.
When a patient contacts us through WhatsApp, we do one thing: introduce them to a vetted clinic that matches their prescription, budget, and destination preference. No fake reviews. No upsells. No hidden margins.
What we don't do
- We don't operate clinics or employ surgeons.
- We don't pay for reviews or publish testimonials we can't verify.
- We don't rank clinics based on referral fees paid.
- We don't recommend LASIK to patients whose eyes don't qualify — we recommend PRK, SMILE, or ICL, whichever is actually safest for you.
- We don't hide our incentive structure: clinics pay us a referral fee only after you've completed your procedure and reported satisfaction. This aligns our incentive with yours.
Why Colombia is featured
Colombia sits at the top of our composite score for a specific reason: the World Health Organization ranks its healthcare system #1 in the Western Hemisphere (22nd globally, from the 2000 World Health Report — still the WHO's most recent country-level ranking). Its top ophthalmology clinics use the same Zeiss VisuMax, Alcon EX500, and Bausch + Lomb Teneo platforms found in Beverly Hills. English fluency among Colombian surgeons trained abroad (mostly US and Spain) is high. And prices are roughly one-third of US averages.
Our physical presence in Medellín — the second-largest city and Colombia's medical tourism capital — is the reason we can offer real vetting, real concierge services, and real Spanish-language operations on the same time zone as US patients.
The network
LASIK International is one property in a broader medical tourism network:
- colombiamedical.co — the main Colombia medical tourism hub
- colombialasik.co — country-level LASIK coverage
- medellinlasik.co — city-specific clinic depth
- latamlasik.com — LATAM regional comparison
Contact
The fastest way to reach us is WhatsApp: +1 (614) 607-1230. Email works too: andy@colombiamedical.co.