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Medical Evacuation from MedJet Assist

Stranded? Not with MedjetAssist!

Imagine you are on business in South America when a rumble in your stomach quickly turns into a serious illness and you have to trade your comfortable hotel room for a hospital bed. The doctors and nurses speak very little English, insurance isn't covering hotel and food expenses and worst of all, you are miles away from your family.

You are stranded! Or maybe not... If you are a MedjetAssist member you can travel with peace of mind, knowing that home will never seem that far away. Reach into your pocket and pull out the MedjetAssist membership card that you received before you left home, call toll-free and MedjetAssist will take it from there.

Evacuation and Repatriation Service

In addition to repatriation and evacuation services, MedjetAssist offers a variety of additional services to its members, including transport service to specialty hospitals, medical consultation, passport replacement, organ recipient transport, and more.

Why MedjetAssist

• According to the Travel Industry Association of America, Americans will take 1.2 billion trips in the United States in excess of 100 miles in 1998 -- a 4.8 percent increase compared to 1997.
• The Sixteenth Edition of The Merck Manual (Copyright © 1992 by Merck & Co., Inc.) reports one in 30 of all international travelers will require emergency care.
• According to the most recent data from the National Center for Health Statistics -- 30,545,000 Americans were hospitalized in 1996, with an average length of stay of 5.2 days.

MedjetAssist is not travel insurance.

Standard travel insurance is multi-benefit coverage for lost baggage, canceled tickets, and lost passports. When there is a medical transport, the benefit is almost always limited to the "nearest adequate facility" and to a dollar amount (typically $10,000). Universally, this coverage cannot be activated without a determination of "medical necessity" - that's when a case manager must determine if the care provided in a particular location is inadequate. 

MedjetAssist membership requires no medical necessity, carries no dollar limit, and the member determines the ultimate hospital destination. In addition, travel insurance requires various cutoff dates prior to actual travel, in order to enroll without regard to pre-existing conditions. MedjetAssist does not ask medical questions for enrollment.