FlexiPAX

MEDICAL EVACUATION AND REPATRIATION OF REMAINS

Benefits will be paid, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits, when You suffer a Sickness, Injury, or loss of life, during Your Trip, for the following:

Emergency Medical Evacuation

We will pay for the Usual and Customary transportation expenses for an Emergency Medical Evacuation, to the nearest suitable Hospital or medical facility where Medically Necessary treatment is available to treat an Unforeseen Sickness or Injury provided:

1. the local attending Physician and Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider determine that Your condition is acute, severe or life threatening; and
2. that adequate Medically Necessary treatment is not available in Your immediate area.

Medical Repatriation

Following an Emergency Medical Evacuation or a covered Injury or Sickness, We will pay for Medical Evacuation expenses to return You to Your point of origin, Your Primary Residence, or to a Hospital of Choice or medical facility closest to Your Primary Residence capable of providing continued treatment, if Your local attending Physician and Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider determine that it is Medically Necessary.

We will pay for one of the following methods of transportation, as pre-approved (prior to the evacuation) and arranged by Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider:

a. one-way economy transportation;
b. commercial air upgrade to business or first class, less refunds from Your unused transportation tickets;
c. other covered land or air transportation including, but not limited to, commercial stretcher, Medical Escort, or the contracted charges for air ambulance.

Transportation must be via the most direct, efficient and economical method of conveyance. In all cases, where practical, economy fare will be utilized. If possible, Your Common Carrier tickets will be used.

We will also pay a benefit for Usual and Customary expenses incurred for a Medical Escort’s transportation and accommodations if an onsite attending Physician recommends in writing that a Medical Escort accompany You.

Medical Escort means a medically trained professional who is approved by Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider, and is contracted to accompany and provide medical care to a sick or injured person while they are being transported.

Hospital of Choice: You may choose to be transported to a Hospital in a city within the United States of America other than the city of Your Primary Residence. The maximum amount payable is limited to the cost of transportation to Your Primary Residence.

Repatriation of Remains

Benefits will be paid for covered Repatriation Expenses incurred, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits, to return Your body to Your city of Primary Residence or Your origination point or to the place of burial in the United States of America if You die during Your Trip.

Repatriation Expenses means:

a) embalming or local cremation; and
b) associated temporary storage costs for up to 30 days, or until local authorities of the country/state in which the death occurred, will permit further transportation of the body, whichever is later; and the most economical coffin or receptacle adequate to transport the remains;
c) the cost of transportation of the remains, by the most direct and economical conveyance and route possible, to: 1) the nearest location where the body can be embalmed or cremated, if not locally available; and/or 2) the receiving funeral home or morgue, at the Return Destination, or a different place of burial within United States; and
d) the cost for the creation and transmission of necessary documentation required to transport the body, such as a death certificate, autopsy or police report

Transportation expenses for the Emergency Medical Evacuation and Medical Repatriation must be authorized and arranged in advance by Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider.

In the event that Your Injury or Sickness prevents for You to obtain prior authorization of the Emergency Medical Evacuation, Medical Repatriation or Repatriation of Remains, You must make all efforts to notify Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider as soon as reasonably possible.

In the event You have not contacted Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider to arrange for Emergency Medical Evacuation, Medical Repatriation or Repatriation of Remains, benefits will be limited to the amount We would have paid had We or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider been contacted and related services pre-approved.

Transportation of Children/Child: If You die or are Hospitalized for more than 7 consecutive days following an Emergency Medical Evacuation or Injury and Sickness that occurred during Your Trip, We will pay up to the cost of a single one-way economy transportation ticket, or same class as the original transportation ticket, less the value of any applied credit from any unused return travel tickets for each person, to return Your Children/Child who were accompanying You on Your Trip (and any accompanying minor persons under Your care) who are left unattended by Your death or Hospitalization to their Primary Residence or to Your residence in the United States, including the cost of an attendant, if considered necessary by Us or Our designated Travel Assistance Services Provider.

Bedside Visit Transportation to Join You: If You are or will be Hospitalized for more than 7 consecutive days following an Emergency Medical Evacuation or Injury and Sickness that occurred during Your Trip, We will pay, up to the cost of a single round-trip economy transportation ticket, up to the Maximum Benefit Amount shown in the Schedule of Benefits, for Reasonable Additional Expenses for one person chosen by You to visit Your bedside, provided You are traveling alone and Emergency Medical Evacuation is not imminent.

These benefit(s) will not duplicate any other benefits payable under the policy or any coverage(s) attached to the policy.