INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ( Sample Clauses

INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (. ‘IEMA’) 1. This is one of the benefits of your plan for an eligible medical condition. The service is provided by an international assistance company who acts for us. 2. The terms and definitions in your plan also apply to the service, and any limitation of cover for the service shown in the policy schedule will apply. For this section only we have given some more words and phrases special meanings. These are: (a) appointed doctor: a medical practitioner chosen by us to advise us on the member’s medical condition and/or need for the service and/or the suitability and adequacy of the medical facilities in the country where the member has been admitted to hospital. (b) service: moving the member to another hospital which has the necessary medical facilities either in the country where the member is taken ill or in another nearby country (evacuation) or bringing them back to their principal country of residence. (c) home country: the country as shown in our records which the member regards as home and which issues the member’s passport. 3. The service is available worldwide to any member who is injured or becomes ill suddenly due to an eligible medical condition and needs immediate hospital treatment as an in-patient. The service is only available in these circumstances and as follows: (a) if the member is admitted to hospital while abroad from their principal country of residence then, if in the opinion of the appointed doctor the medical facilities there are not suitable or adequate, they will be entitled to evacuation or repatriation; (b) if the member is admitted to hospital while in their principal country of residence then, if in the opinion of the appointed doctor the medical facilities in the principal country of residence are not suitable or adequate, the member will be evacuated to the nearest place where appropriate treatment are available; (c) following evacuation, in accordance with (3.a.) or (3.b.) above, the member concerned shall be entitled to be returned, by regular scheduled airline unless we agree that another means of transport is necessary, to his principal country of residence. Please note: Member is not entitled to be repatriated to his home country when admitted to hospital in his principal country of residence. Evacuation will always be to the nearest place where the necessary facilities are available. It follows that a member may be evacuated to the home country but only if we conclude that, on the basis of the medical facts, this i...
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INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (. We will provide Emergency Medical Assistance worldwide as described below when an Insured Person, during the Policy Period, is travelling 150 (one hundred and fifty) kilometres or more away from his/her residential address as mentioned in the Policy Schedule or Certificate of Insurance for a period of less than 90(ninety) days.
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INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (. In addition to the private healthcare aspect of your plan, you may, depending on the benefits included, have access to International Emergency Medical Assistance. This is a worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year emergency service providing evacuation and repatriation services. If you need immediate in-patient treatment, where local facilities are unavailable or inadequate, please call our Customer Service Center on +000 (0) 000 00 000. Please note that: for your own protection, calls may be recorded in case of subsequent query. Entitlement to the evacuation service does not mean that your treatment following evacuation or repatriation will be eligible for benefit. Any such treatment will be subject to the terms of your plan. We will cover the costs of emergency evacuation if:
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INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (. Out-patient treatment 16 Medical practitioner charges and prescription drugs & dressings 17 Medical practitioner consultations, diagnostic procedures and physiotherapy 18 Out-patient MRI, CT, and PET scanning, gastroscopies and colonoscopies 19 Alternative treatment 20 Accidental damage to teeth 21 Psychiatry 23 Routine Dental Care Available after 12 months of membership but will not cover any pre-existing illnesses. Consultations, treatment, drugs and medications up to the limit of the benefit. The illnesses covered under this benefit are: asthma, cardiomyopathy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, diabetes mellitus types 1 & 2, hypertension, ulcerative colitis and hashimoto. Benefits only become available and eligible claims payable for expenses incurred after the member (the mother) has been continuously covered under the plan for 12 consecutive months for Plan A or Plan B and 24 consecutive months for Plan C and has effected the annual renewal of that plan for the coming policy year. a) Your normal pregnancy and childbirth including in-patient or out-patient antenatal and postnatal consultations and delivery. b) Charges for your treatment related to complications incurred during your pregnancy including caesarean section. This is to pay for a road ambulance or air ambulance if appropriate for emergency transportation to or between hospitals or when the medical practitioner says that you need to have medical supervision while you are being transported. Benefit includes any medical attendant travelling with the patient. This is to cover emergency treatment, or treatment of a medical condition which arises suddenly whilst outside the member’s area of cover. Worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year emergency service providing evacuation and repatriation. For more information, refer to pages 12-14 of this Handbook. a) Medical practitioner charges b) Prescription drugs & dressings (the drugs and dressings must be for treatment of a medical condition that we cover and must be prescribed by a medical practitioner). Medical practitioner charges for consultations and treatment, diagnostic procedures (even if they are related to in-patient daycare or physiotherapy treatment). Please note that all physiotherapy must follow referral by a medical practitioner. Additionally, physiotherapy is limited to 12 visits in a 6 week period. If further physiotherapy is needed, a new medical practitioner referral will be required. CT = Computerised Tomography, MRI = Magne...
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INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE (. In addition to the private healthcare aspect of your plan, you may, depending on the benefits included, have access to Emergency Medical Assistance. This is a worldwide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year emergency service providing medically necessary evacuation or repatriation services. If you need immediate in-patient treatment, where local facilities are unavailable or inadequate, a phone call to the International Assistance Company on +00 0000 000 000 will alert the International Emergency Assistance service. We will cover the costs of emergency evacuation if: • you are, or need to be, admitted as an emergency in-patient, and • our appointed doctor and the treating doctor believe your current or nearest medical facilities are not able to provide the treatment you need. We will cover the costs of repatriating you if we have agreed to cover your emergency evacuation. We will not cover the cost of evacuating or repatriating if you deside to travel elsewhere for treatment and we believe the nearest medical facilities are adequate for your treatment. This includes if you decide you want to travel back to the principal country of residence for your treatment. If you are admitted as an emergency in-patient and you or the treating doctor believe that the local medical facilities are not adequate to treat you, ask somebody to call our emergency number. We will appoint a doctor who will be able to assess the medical facilities and the evacuation or repatriation service detailed at the beginning of this section will apply. If the doctor we appoint decides that the medical facilities are not adequate to treat you, we will cover the reasonable costs of either: • evacuating you to a suitable medical facility for treatment in the country you are in; or • evacuating you to a suitable medical facility in a different country for treatment. When you are discharged from the medical facility you were evacuated to, we will cover the costs of repatriating you to one of the following: • the place where you normally live or your country of residence. • a country that you hold a passport for. We will cover these costs so long as we have agreed the method of transport to be used, and date and time of your evacuation or repatriation before it takes place. We will also cover the cost of any necessary treatment given to you by our chosen evacuation agency while they are moving you. If you die outside a country that you hold a passport for, we will cover the cost of transporting your ...
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