{"id":857,"date":"2022-12-23T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmysafety.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2022-12-23T00:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:07:33","slug":"medical-evacuation-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/medical-evacuation-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Evacuation Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why is Medical Evacuation Insurance Important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one wants to consider what could happen if they become sick or injured while traveling. \u00a0However, emergencies arise, and illness and injury can happen anywhere. \u00a0If a patient is hospitalized while traveling, and is so critically ill that they need to be transferred to another higher level of care facility,\u00a0or if a hospitalized patient wishes to continue in-patient care at a facility closer to their home, a\u00a0medical evacuation (sometimes called medevac, medivac, or med evac)\u00a0is required.<\/p>\n<p>Typical health insurance policies may provide\u00a0no, or\u00a0limited,\u00a0coverage when\u00a0you are\u00a0traveling overseas. \u00a0It is wise to purchase a comprehensive travel medical insurance plan to cover emergency care\u00a0costs, but most of these plans do not\u00a0cover a medical evacuation to get you home. \u00a0Most travel\u00a0medical\u00a0policies will\u00a0cover medical evacuation to the\u00a0\u201cnearest acceptable facility\u201d, but that\u2019s likely where you\u2019ll stay until you are well enough to be repatriated home by commercial airline.\u00a0 Getting home for further treatment and recovery, to a hospital of\u00a0your\u00a0choice, is typically not covered. That&#8217;s what programs like Medjet do.\u00a0 And it can cost you, out of pocket, up to $30,000 for a domestic medical transport, and up to $180,000 for an international transport to get there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting you transported to your hospital at home is what Medjet does.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medjet is now transporting globally for COVID-19.\u00a0(Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medjetassist.com\/medjet-blog\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/medjet-services-alert-coronavirus\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0for full details).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Questions to Ask When Purchasing a Medical Evacuation Insurance Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li>Does the plan allow you to be evacuated to the hospital of your choosing or just the closest appropriate facility?<\/li>\n<li>Who makes the decision if you will be evacuated?<\/li>\n<li>Are there restrictions for adventure travel or engaging in extreme activities (such as skydiving)?<\/li>\n<li>Does the plan exclude any preexisting conditions?<\/li>\n<li>Does the plan place a cap on how much coverage it will provide for a medical evacuation?<\/li>\n<li>Does the plan have age restrictions?<\/li>\n<li>Does the plan cover COVID?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Best Emergency Insurance isn\u2019t Insurance at All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medjet is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medjetassist.com\/home\">medical transport membership program<\/a>, that provides you with elevated coverage and control over where you are treated. We pick up where health insurance, travel insurance (or platinum level credit cards, if that&#8217;s the evacuation coverage you rely on) leave off.\u00a0 As a\u00a0membership\u00a0program, Medjet offers more options,\u00a0more choice,\u00a0better\u00a0service\u2026and better value.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, if you are hospitalized more than 150 miles from home domestically or internationally, Medjet\u00a0will arrange bedside-to-bedside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medjetassist.com\/home\">air medical transport<\/a>\u00a0and medical repatriation to the home country hospital of your choice. \u00a0It\u2019s that easy. \u00a0No claim forms, no transport cost caps, no insurance\u00a0hassles, no surprise bills later. \u00a0All you ever pay is your membership fee\u2014nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>With Medjet, there is no application process (under age 75), no adventure travel exclusions, and no pre-existing conditions exclusions. \u00a0We have 24\/7 access to hundreds of air ambulances and commercial medical escorts around the globe. Read our COVID-19 transport benefits\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medjetassist.com\/medjet-blog\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/medjet-services-alert-coronavirus\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to relying on the limited services of an emergency medical evacuation insurance provider or adding the elevated services of Medjet, the choice is clear\u2014Medjet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is Medical Evacuation Insurance Important? No one wants to consider what could happen if they become sick or injured while traveling. \u00a0However, emergencies arise, and illness and injury can happen anywhere. \u00a0If a patient is hospitalized while traveling, and is so critically ill that they need to be transferred to another higher level of &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Medical Evacuation Insurance\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/2022\/12\/23\/medical-evacuation-insurance\/#more-857\" aria-label=\"More on Medical Evacuation Insurance\">APPLY NOW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","infinite-scroll-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipsv.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}