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COVID-19 SPECIALIZED TRANSFER
Subject to all other Rules and Regulations and the following additional limitations on services described herein, when a Member (whose Home Country is the United States, Canada or Mexico) becomes hospitalized as an inpatient due to Covid-19, is more than 150 miles from their Residence Address, and requires continued inpatient hospitalization, Medjet will arrange for Covid-19 Specialized Transfer to the Member’s hospital of choice within their Home Country.For more information about the Covid-19 Specialized Transfer benefit, please visit the Covid-19 Services Information Page on Medjet.com.
Members otherwise eligible for transfer for Covid-19 must not exceed the maximum allowable height, weight and girth requirements set forth by the manufacturers of Covid-19 transport pods utilized in the safe transfer of Covid-19 positive patients. Please contact Medjet if you have questions or concerns regarding the sizing requirements prior to travel.
No traveling companions or family members will be allowed to accompany patients transported for Covid-19.
If a hospitalized Member is under quarantine by a hospital, a government or any other regulatory entity exercising jurisdiction and that medical facility, government or regulatory entity will not allow transfer, transport will not be possible.
The receiving hospital selected by the hospitalized Medjet Member must agree to accept the patient.Otherwise, Medjet’s transport to that hospital will not be possible.
The time frame for Covid-19 Specialized Transfer WILL BE extended beyond that of typical medical transports and is dependent on multiple factors including, but not limited to, affiliate availability to transfer Covid-19 patients, required permits or permissions and any other factors that are beyond Medjet's control.
With respect to Covid-19 specialized transfers, to the extent of any actual or claimed inconsistency between the Covid-19 Specialty Transfer provisions and any other provision(s) of the Rules and Regulations, the Covid-19 Specialty Transfer provisions control.
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