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Air ambulance insurance coverage for medical repatriation and evacuation

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Table of contents

  1. What is an air ambulance?
  2. How much does an air ambulance flight cost?
  3. Is air ambulance covered by insurance?
  4. What is air ambulance coverage?
  5. Is air ambulance covered by health or travel policies?
  6. Does your insurance always cover the air ambulance cost?
  7. Are there limitations and exclusions to air ambulance coverage?
  8. How to make sure your air ambulance costs are covered by insurance?
  9. Do you have any questions?
  10. Contact us

Medical Air Service is an internationally renowned air ambulance company that connects patients and health-care providers all over the world. In a critical medical condition, do you or a loved one require a timely and reliable transfer from one hospital to another across the globe?

Count on us for your medical flights! They are specially designed to relieve you of the stress of aeromedical repatriation and evacuation, and are coordinated by our teams of experienced medical personnel and flight attendants. However, does your health or travel insurance cover our services? While some policies do, gaps in coverage can leave you struggling to pay large bills. Here are a few of the most important highlights.

Is air ambulance covered by insurance?

  • Generally, standard medical insurance does not cover air ambulances
  • For your medical flight to be covered by insurance, you must have air ambulance coverage
  • Air ambulance coverage is, sometimes, included in travel insurance plans
  • Read your insurance policy carefully or ask your insurer about air ambulance coverage
  • Medical Air Service can organize your air ambulance flight, even if you do not have air ambulance coverage.
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June 24th, 2023

Mom has been doing pretty good lately. Still a ways to recover but as we have learned, brains take time…a lot of time.

We continue to battle every bureaucratic road block possible. I have written an email to President Biden, no response. I have written to our state Governor, it isn’t something governor’s offices deal with. I have written to senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, I have heard back from Patty Murray’s office and they are essentially just as useless the US Embassy here in Lisbon. Then to top it all off, her Humana medical insurance is now refusing to provide a letter of guaranteed payment to the hospital in the amount of €51,000. While she has WORLDWIDE coverage for emergencies, her insurance is now expecting us to front the payment to the hospital and then return home to “seek” reimbursement. Who has this kind of money just laying around?! We can’t even afford to bring our mother home. In my opinion, they should be more than willing to pay the hospital the full amount and even tip them 50% for taking care of my mom because that would still be a fraction of what her care back home would cost.

I am at a complete loss! I am baffled as to how one of the richest countries in the world is willing to leave our family abandoned in a foreign country. The people of Portugal are baffled and they are considered a poor country, because in this country they would NEVER abandon one of their citizens abroad. All this situation has done for me is highlight every broken system in the US. We want to think that the USA cares about its people, but they don’t. The care about who is lining their pockets and that is it. We should be focused on my mom and her care, but instead we are left to navigate this nightmare of red tape and BS….it’s just unnecessary! It is truly disheartening and I just don’t know how much more I can take. My soul is literally crushed!