Medical Evacuation & Repatriation

• Evacuation
  • Medical Evacuation & Repatriation

  • $1,000,000 per person

• What is Medical Evacuation & Repatriation?
  Medical Evacuation covers emergency transportation to the nearest medical facility if you fall seriously ill or injured during your trip. Learn more.

• What am I covered for?
  EMERGENCY EVACUATION & REPATRIATION OF REMAINS

  The Company will pay for Covered Emergency Evacuation Expenses incurred due to an Injury or Sickness that occurs to the Insured while on a Trip, up to the Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule. In the event of death, the Company will pay for Covered Repatriation Expenses up to the Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule to return the Insured’s body to the City of burial.

  Special Limitation: In the event the Travel Insurance Administrator could not be contacted to arrange for Emergency Evacuation or Repatriation of Remains, benefits are limited to the amount the Company would have paid had the Company or its authorized representative been contacted.

  Covered Emergency Evacuation Expenses are the Reasonable and Customary Charges for necessary transportation, related medical services and medical supplies incurred in connection with an Emergency Evacuation. All transportation arrangements made for evacuation must be by the most direct and economical route possible and required by the standard regulations of the transporting conveyance. If possible, the Insured’s Common Carrier tickets will be used.

  Expenses for transportation must be:

  a) Ordered by the onsite attending Physician who must certify that the severity of the Injury or Sickness warrants an Emergency Evacuation and adequate medical treatment is not locally available; and

  b) Authorized in advance by the Travel Insurance Administrator. In the event the Injury or Sickness prevents prior authorization of the Emergency Evacuation, the Travel Insurance Administrator must be notified as soon as reasonably possible.

  The Company will also pay a benefit for reasonable and customary expenses incurred for an escort’s transportation and accommodations subject to the Escort Maximum Limit shown in the Schedule if an onsite attending Physician recommends an escort in writing.

  Emergency Evacuation – means:

  a) Transportation from the place where the Insured is Injured or sick to the nearest adequate licensed medical facility where appropriate medical treatment can be obtained; or
  b) Transportation from a local medical facility to the nearest adequate licensed medical facility to obtain appropriate medical treatment if the onsite attending Physician certifies that additional Medically Necessary treatment is needed but not locally available; and the Insured is medically able to travel; or
  c) Transportation to the adequate licensed medical facility nearest to the Insured’s home to obtain further medical treatment or to recover, after being treated at a local licensed medical facility, and the onsite attending Physician determines that the Insured is medically able to be transported.

  Advanced authorization by the Travel Insurance Administrator is needed for a), b) and c) above.

  ADDITIONAL BENEFITS

  In addition to the above covered expenses, if the Company has previously evacuated the Insured to a medical facility, the Company will reimburse for airfare costs, less refunds from Unused transportation tickets, from that facility to the Return Destination or home, within one year from the original Return Date. Airfare costs will be based on medical necessity or same class as the Insured’s original tickets.

  If the Insured is hospitalized for more than 7 days following a covered Emergency Evacuation, the Company will reimburse, subject to the limitations set out herein, the expenses for:

  a) Return of Children: Return of Children, who were accompanying the Insured when the Injury or Sickness occurred, to the Insured’s residence in the United States, including the cost of an attendant, if necessary. Such expenses shall not exceed the cost of a one-way economy airfare ticket, or same class as the original ticket, less the value of any applied credit from any Unused return travel tickets for each person.

  b) Bedside Traveling Companion: The Company will reimburse the Insured for reasonable expenses incurred for Lodging and meals shown in the Schedule for the Traveling Companion to remain near the Insured. For an insured Child, a bedside companion is available immediately upon Hospital admission. Receipts must be submitted. Coverage for this benefit ends on the discharge date from the hospital.

  c) Bedside Visit: If the Insured is alone the Company will reimburse the Insured for the transportation costs to bring one person, chosen by the Insured, to and from the medical facility where the Insured is confined. The payment will not exceed the cost of one round-Trip economy airfare ticket.

  Covered Repatriation Expenses are the reasonable and customary expenses for
  a) The most economical coffins or receptacles adequate for transportation of the remains; and
  b) Transportation of the remains, by the most direct and economical conveyance and route possible. This coverage ends when the body is returned to the City of burial.

  The Travel Insurance Administrator must make all arrangements and authorize all expenses in advance.