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MediCare International - International

InternationalProvides comprehensive cover for all in-patient treatment at a medical facility with emergency medical evacuation when needed. Covers all items such as ambulance costs, hospital treatment, evacuation, and home nursing up to 26 weeks. In addition, there is a hospital cash benefit of £250 per night for up to 30 days, if the treatment you are receiving is free of charge.

Benefits

Key Facts - In-patient & Day Case Charges

Hospital accommodation charges including theatre fees, nursing costs, prosthesis, in-patient drugs & dressings
Full refund
Surgeon / Consultant / Specialist & Anaesthetists fees
Full refund
Physicians fees & diagnostic tests
Full refund
Cancer Treatment Costs - Chemotherapy / Radiotherapy
Full refund
Organ transplant
Up to £100,000 : $170,000 : €130,000
Outside area of cover limit for USA / Canada
Full refund for up to 30 days in anyone policy period. Cover is in respect of emergency conditions and acute episodes of existing covered conditions only
Prosthetic devices
Full refund where surgically required
Psychiatric treatment
Full refund - up to 30 days
In a registered psychiatric unit of a hospital. All benefits are conditional upon pre-authorisation from Us and all hreatment being administered under the direct control of a registered Psychiatrist

Key Facts - Out-patient Charges

Complementary medicine
Not covered
Diagnostic tests (excluding scans)
Not covered
GP referred consultations
Not covered
Physiotherapy consultant referred
Not covered
Physiotherapy GP referred
Not covered
Psychiatric cover
Not covered
Radiotherapy / Chemotherapy
Full refund
Scans - MRI / CT / PET
Full refund
Surgical Procedures
Not covered
Vaccinations administered by a medical practitioner
Not covered

Key Facts - Additional Benefits

Cash benefit if the treatment is received completely free of charge
£250 : $425 : €f325 per night (when in-patient treatment is provided free of charge - max 30 days per certificate period)
Nursing at home
Full refund (up to 26 weeks pa)
Parental accommodation
Full refund (where an insured child up to the age 17 is in hospital)
Private ambulance
Full refund (Road ambulance only)

Additional Benefits

24 Hour emergency helpline
24hr / 7 days a week medical information line. A service to answer general queries and provide information on medical issues
Accompanying relative travel & accomodation
Accompanying relative travel
Reasonable transportation costs only of one other insured person accompanying the patient on an emergency medical evacuation when deemed necessary.
Accompanying relative accommodation
In-patient stay of one adult accompanying a dependent child up to the age of 17 years.
AIDS / HIV treatment
£10,000 : $17,000 : €13,000 lifetime limit
Alcohol & drug abuse
Not covered
Annual maximum limit
All benefits are covered up to a max aggregate limit of £1,000,000 : $1,700,000 : €1,300,000 per insured person per year
Children covered
18 (or 23 if in full-time education)
Chinese medicine
Not covered
Chiropractors & Osteopaths
Not covered
Chronic conditions & palliative care
Available within covered benefits
Compassionate home visit
Not covered
Cover for new born children
Up to £5,000 : $8,500 : €6,500
Only applicable when child is insured
Cremation / burial or repatriation of remains
Full refund up to £7,500 : $12,750 : €9,750 (only applies outside your home country. This benefit is not available to applicants aged 65 or over)
Dental treatment
Not covered - Routine dental treatment
Full refund - Dental treatment following accident
Emergency medical evacuation & medical repatriation
Full refund
Extended care facility
Not covered
Health Screening
Not covered
Hormone replacement therapy
Not covered
Infertility investigations
Not covered
Maternity cash benefit
Not covered
Overseas cover
Not covered
Personal & total disability benefit
Available through Optional Personal Accident Plan
Policy excess
Standard Policy Excess of £100 each medical condition for out-patient treatment only. Excess can be waived by payment of an additional 20% of the annual premium rate
Pre-existing conditions
Not covered
Pregnancy complications
Not covered
Presciption drugs, dressings and medicines
Not covered
Rehabilitation
£100,000 : $170,000 : €130,000 lifetime limit
Routine maternity cover
Not covered
Sight / vision benefit
Not covered
Stabilisation of acute chronic episode
Covered subject to the Policy terms and conditions and benefit inner limits and excesses
Other benefits
Post Hospital Treatment
Up to £500 : $850 : €650 when received within 90 days of in-patient treatment
Accident and Emergency Room Services
Full refund
 
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