RULES AND REGULATIONS
of
MEDJET ASSISTANCE Program
Rates and Application are at the bottom of this
page.
Following are the Rules &
Regulations governing MEDJET Assistance Program:
Membership
Eligibility
Must be
under age 75 and residents of the United States
For individuals are at age 75 or older,
please
contact our specialists
info@internationalriskmanagement.com
or call 877-211-3654
A family
membership shall include the named primary member, his or her lawful spouse, and up to
five of their unmarried dependent children (including step, foster or legally adopted
children) under the age of 19, or up to age 23 if a full-time student in actual attendance
at an accredited school or college and dependent on the primary member for support and
maintenance. If a birth or legal adoption occurs during the year of a family membership,
the new dependent is automatically covered upon notification. A dependent child, as used
above, is one who lives regularly and permanently with the primary member in a
parent-child relationship and is chiefly dependent upon the member for support.
Membership enrollment and renewal
are subject to approval by the MEDJET Assistance membership committee.
Membership is valid
only if the appropriate membership fee is collected.
SPECIAL NOTE: A special membership is available for current
MEDJET Assistance members who have reached their 75th birthday. Please contact us
info@internationalriskmanagement.com or call
(toll free) 877-211-3654 for more information.
Air Medical Transport
Criteria
You must be hospitalized as an inpatient
more than 150 miles from your primary residence as listed on your enrollment application.
Due to the limited medical
facilities and testing available on cruise ships, in some cases the MEDJET Assistance
Medical Director may require the member to be admitted to a hospital on-shore before
scheduling air medical transportation to another hospital.
All arrangements for medical evacuation
and repatriation must be made by MEDJET Assistance.
Since MEDJET Assistance is an assistance program and not an insurance plan, we will not
reimburse members for expenses they incur on their own. Decisions regarding urgency of the
case, the best timing and the most suitable means of transportation will be made by the
MEDJET Assistance medical department after consultation with the local attending physician
and the patient's receiving physician.
Evacuation flights will be performed
if an inpatient hospitalization is required, and it is determined that the remaining
hospital stay can be completed at a hospital near the member's home, and the member is
unable to return to his home hospital via commercial airline without medical escort.
Aircraft used for the medical
transport of MEDJET Assistance members are fully equipped intensive care aircraft staffed
with specially trained medical teams. However, if the member's condition permits, the
member may be transported by scheduled commercial airline, while in the care of a MEDJET
Assistance medical team.
Air medical services are limited to
two separate flights per membership per year, except for repatriation flights involving
enrolled multiple family members requiring simultaneous repatriation. Under these
circumstances, each family member will receive one fully paid flight.
Air Transport
Restrictions/Exclusions
Both the originating and receiving hospital
must be reasonably accessible by ground ambulance to transport the member to and from an
airfield capable of accommodating MEDJET Assistance aircraft,
or one of its authorized affiliates.
Membership provides access to MEDJET
Assistance aircraft except in cases when an authorized affiliate's aircraft is required to
evacuate a member from remote areas or islands unable to accommodate a MEDJET Assistance
aircraft.
Due to the high risk of sending U.S.
registered aircraft and personnel into countries where the U.S. State Department has
issued travel restrictions, membership services are subject to exclusion in these areas.
A member with tuberculosis or other
chronic airborne pathogens may not be transported.
A member beyond the second trimester
of pregnancy may not be transported.
A member with mild lesions, simple
injuries such as sprains, simple fractures or mild illness which can be treated by local
doctors and do not prevent the member from continuing his trip or returning home does not
qualify for air medical transport.
Air medical transport services will not
be provided in cases where the member's primary admitting diagnosis is an inpatient
psychiatric disorder.
A member traveling outside the United
States for the sole purpose of seeking medical treatment whether inpatient or outpatient,
experimental or otherwise, will not be eligible for air medical transport benefits for
that specific trip.
A member traveling or living outside
the United States or Canada for an uninterrupted period in excess of 90 days is not
eligible for membership benefits under the standard plan. Extended Stay (Expatriate)
packages are available upon request.
Family members, business associates,
and/or traveling companions may accompany the patient, at no additional cost, on MEDJET
Assistance aircraft during transport, providing space is available and the patient care is
not compromised. Passengers accompanying patients transported on scheduled commercial
aircraft will be responsible for their own airfare. Payment of membership fee entitles the
member and the member's enrolled family to the membership services as published at no
additional cost to the member. This membership permits MEDJET Assistance or its affiliates
to collect for services rendered directly from the member's insurer or other provider, if
available. If the member has no insurance coverage for the services rendered, the member
is still entitled to all MEDJET Assistance benefits at no additional cost.
While MEDJET Assistance makes every
effort to accommodate its members, the patient and an accompanying passenger are limited
to one small carry-on bag each due to limited space available on medical aircraft. MEDJET
Assistance will arrange for additional luggage to be forwarded at the member's expense.
Members will not be entitled to air
medical transport benefits if their illness or injury is a result of or is contributed to
by the following:
1.) War, invasion or
civil war;
2.) Suicide or attempted suicide or intentional self injury;
3.) A member's own criminal or felonious act, or sustained while the member is in a state
of insanity;
4.) A member with an infectious disease under treatment at the time of enrollment will not
be transported for any condition related to that infection;
5.) A member on an organ transplant list prior to enrollment will not be entitled to a
transport for that transplant;
6.) A member who is hospitalized at the
time of enrollment will not be eligible for transport benefits for that
hospitalization and may not be accepted for membership entirely;
MEDJET Assistance reserves the right to
change or amend these rules and regulations. MEDJET Assistance is solely responsible for
the interpretation and application of the rules and regulations communicated in this
publication. All determinations by MEDJET Assistance shall be final and conclusive in each
case. Memberships are non-transferable and non-refundable. By enrolling as a member you
accept and agree to the terms and conditions of membership.
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today.
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