Some credit cards provide car rental insurance and some trip cancellation, interruption and delay coverage, but they have limitations and don't
pay evacuation costs and medical expenses.
Not exact matches
The natural disaster benefit can help to defray the
cost of replacement accommodations in the event you are displaced from planned,
paid accommodations due to
evacuation from forecasted disaster or following a disaster strike.
If you are visiting a new country and try out a new sport, your medical
costs,
evacuation expenses, and even repatriation charges will not be
paid by your travel insurance company if the injury or death was the result of your participation in a sport listed as excluded in your travel insurance plan document.
You may have heard or read that you can insure only a portion of your total trip
costs, or even enter a trip
cost of $ 0 and gain access to all the travel insurance protections: medical, dental,
evacuation, etc., without having to
pay the higher premium required to cover trip cancellations.
Benefits
paid for
evacuation and / or repatriation are less the
cost of your unused return travel ticket
Travel insurance will
pay (up to the plan limits) for the
costs of local transportation and emergency medical
evacuation.
Evacuations may
cost tens of thousands of dollars and they must be
paid in advance.
Those
evacuation costs are not
paid for by the government: they're
paid for by the traveler or their family.
Repatriation expenses are not as high as
evacuations but can easily
cost $ 5,000 or $ 10,000 and this is not an expense you want your family to have to
pay.
The
cost is very reasonable, and the potential
costs of treatment or
evacuation can be devastating if
paid out - of - pocket.
The
cost of a travel medical plan is quite affordable and when you consider the
cost of medical
evacuation, it seems a small price to
pay for the luxury of a safe, medically staffed ride to your hometown hospital for treatment.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, medical
evacuations by air ambulance can
cost $ 50,000 - $ 100,000 and must be
paid in advance by travelers who don't have insurance.
Transportation to Join You: If You are or will be hospitalized for more than 7 days, We will
pay, up to the
cost of a single round - trip Economy Transportation ticket and, up to $ 250 per day up to 5 days for expenses for hotel nights, meals and local transportation for one person chosen by You to visit Your bedside, provided You are traveling alone and emergency Medical
Evacuation or non-emergency Medical
Evacuation is not imminent.
Evacuation costs will be
paid once per Insured per occurrence.
In particular, the
cost of medical services can quickly add up in another country, especially for a medical emergency or
evacuation; therefore, travel insurance could easily be worth the premiums
paid.
Travel Medical Insurance not only covers medically - necessary
evacuation costs, but it also
pays expenses to physicians, hospitals and other medical providers.
Consider medical
evacuation insurance;
paying for an
evacuation on your own can
cost as much as $ 100,000.
The coverage may
pay for reasonable lodging, meal and travel
costs during the
evacuation period.
Emergency Medical
Evacuation: It
pays the
costs incurred for sending insured back to the country of residence, requiring immediate medical care.