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Membership
Eligibility
Must be under age 75
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.
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:
War, invasion or civil war;
Suicide or attempted suicide or intentional self injury;
A member's own criminal or felonious act, or sustained while the member is
in a state of insanity;
A member with an infectious disease under treatment at the time of
enrollment will not be transported for any condition related to that
infection;
A member on an organ transplant list prior to enrollment will not be
entitled to a transport for that transplant;
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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