“If you can come to Mexico for heart surgery, why not rehab? We pick people up from the airport, they get their own hotel room, they get top doctors,” said Salazar, as a row of doctors answered calls from prospective U.S. patients.

Charging a third of the price of upscale clinics in the United States, a luxury rehab center aimed at foreigners opened recently at a posh hotel in the city of Monterrey about 100 miles from Texas.
Americans have long crossed the border for cheap medicine and are now choosing Mexico for dentistry and eye and heart surgery instead of far-flung destinations in Asia.

Its month-long recovery packages come with English-speaking doctors and extras like massages, body masks and Botox shots.

Gilberto Salazar, a former alcoholic, is marketing his spa-like centers under the brand “Rehab in Mexico” and is even using Mexico’s official tourism logo on his website and in leaflets, with the government’s permission.