Travel Health Insurance: Benefits and Conditions

Monday, May 9, 2011 |

Travel health insurance as the name suggests is a kind of insurance which provides health coverage while traveling, often in case of foreign country. Similar to other health insurance policies, traveling health insurance too requires the insurer to pay a certain amount as premium to the health insurance company. The company thereafter, provides coverage for medical expenses incurred during traveling. Some health insurance companies also cover medical evacuation under their travel health insurance program.

Premium and General Benefits
Travel health insurance quotes primarily offer trip interruption/cancellation insurance, travel accident insurance, baggage loss, medical expenses coverage and emergency evacuation. The premium amount largely depends upon the age of the insurer, cost of trip(in case of single trip insurance coverage), the country which is being visited, the distance of the trip, other pre-existing health conditions etc. Certain travel health insurance plans also include flight accidental deaths and other accidental deaths.


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Medical Benefits
Since it is a health insurance policy, the medical cost that it covers include, medical expenses made on the trip, dental expenses, expenses incurred on medicines and treatment. However, there are certain terms and conditions applied on these covers as well. For example, the health insurance company would not reimburse any amount for unconventional medical treatments and medicines like ayurvedic treatment and the services of an acupuncturist.

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