Medical Evacuation Insurance

What is Travel MedEvac?

• A stand-alone medical transport policy – ‘Real Insurance’ that gets your client to their home hospital and not limited to Nearest Adequate Facility
• Return to your client’s hospital, healthcare network, physicians and back to their family
• Coverage anytime your client is traveling 150+ miles from home (most US residents), regardless of the type of illness or injury, when hospitalized and a transport is warranted
• All logistics and arrangements are provided at time of critical need, including hospital to airfield ground transportation on both ends

Why Travel MedEvac?

• Protect your client’s finances and health
• 1 in 13 will go to the hospital each year
• Medical evacuation can cost $50,000 to $150,000 with payment required upfront

Exceptional Travel MedEvac Coverages

• Air medical transport when hospitalized and needing a higher level of care
• Transport of traveling companion and/or family member
• Visitor transportation
• Vehicle return – auto, RV, motorcycle or vessel
• Mortal remains return
• $500,000 policy limit

New NAIC Travel Insurance Model Act

• The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) approved a new Travel Insurance Model Act, which classifies “emergency evacuation” and “repatriation” as insurance coverage.
• Several states have adopted by statute. It’s anticipated that as many as half the states may adopt by the end of 2020.
• Many medical evacuation plans in the marketplace are membership/subscription programs, not true insurance.
• As ‘Real Insurance’ Travel MedEvac is compliant with the provisions of the new NAIC Model Act.

Competitive Advantages of Travel MedEvac

• A REGULATED / NAIC COMPLIANT PRODUCT underwritten by Nationwide Mutual Insurance, an A+ rated carrier
• Medical transport to HOME HOSPITAL of CHOICE*
• NO pre-existing conditions exclusion
• NO deductibles
• NO claim forms for medical transports

Who Manages The Client’s Care & Transport

• All flights managed using a highly accredited global network of air ambulance providers – your client’s welfare does not get shopped to just the lowest cost provider
• Medical staff have CCU, ICU & emergency medicine experience
• Providers are members of camts.org or eurami.org, plus other industry affiliations such as argus.org or aams.org – the highest safety standards and oversight organizations