Jump to content

sabreline

Members
  • Posts

    130
  • Joined

sabreline's Achievements

Cool Cruiser

Cool Cruiser (2/15)

  1. Thanks for the kind words! We just happened to have the $100k in our money market account at our bank because we had sold our house and kept some of the profit in the bank. I think if I was going to travel out of the country again, I would add a trusted relative to one of our bank accounts so that they could do a wire transfer if needed.
  2. Thanks for your kind words! I think you have all the points covered. I guess the number 1 thing I would recommend to anyone would be..........make sure you have access to $100k in some way.....savings account, crecit card, IRA. Even then, I had over $100k in cash available but the issue was getting it from my account to the provider's account. And yes, my husband is much better......but we will NEVER recover from that experience.
  3. Thank you. Yes, the point I was trying to make was absolutely lost in the thread. My husband has not recovered completely and sadly that was the last trip we will be able to make ever.
  4. Our United Healthcare is a Meducare Advantage Plan. The hospital bill was surprisingly low.....11 nights, 2 CT scans, 1 EEG, multiple blood tests......$17,350!!!!!! And we were billed only after we get home. Study what they mean by "evacuation"....most just mean to the nearest acceptable hospital, not to your home hospital.
  5. Just FYI.....I ysed 2 different translation apps on my phone....they do not always translate correctly, especially for complex discussions like medical issues. Secondly, I have had MedJet for many years. My husband has Global Rescue. Because the hospital in Paris couldn't come up with a diagnosis, Global Rescue would NOT provide evacuation, although they said I could "send a written request for an appeal"!!! We had been in a Paris hospital for 8 dats at that point so had no time for written appeals! So, as your post illustrates, you need several layers if protection just to be sure.
  6. We paid $112,000 for evacuation via air ambulance. Some bids were as high as $150,000. And be aware that YOU will have to pay the medivac company up front and then file for reimbursement when you get home!!!!
  7. Well, if it makes you feel any better, it took almost 6 months for our reimbursement to.come but we get it all from Nationwide.
  8. Actually I DO have Medjet Assist and my husband has Global Rescue!! Unfortunately, Global Rescue ruled that he had a pre-existing condition.......which it turned out he DIDN'T.....and which Nationwide disagreed with...so it was no help to us and he has not renewed his membership. That's the problem with those memberships.....you need them IMMEDIATELY and you don't have the time to appeal their decisions!!!-
  9. You must have missed the part where it was a HOSPITAL!! You know what happens when someone from any other country in the world comes to the US and is hospitalized? They are provided an INTERPRETER!!! They do NOT have to call their Embassy to get information And what started as a helpful post about my great insurance experience deteriorated when someone who wasn't interested in the subject decided I must be an "ugly American". Didn't care what language they spoke in hotels, restaurants, taxis, shops.....but a hospital in one of the biggest tourist cities in the world??? Yeah, I expected a little more.
  10. You are an idiot. I'm sure you're right...they spoke English but were too damn mean to admit it. They did 2 brain scans, 5 blood tests and an EEG....and he had a UTI but the morons didn't do a urinalysis. Only after we got home was he properly diagnosed and treated. And not only was I NICE to them.....I GROVELED to them!!! I even asked the US Embassy to call the nurse's station and thank them IN FRENCH!! You people with your "ugly American" BS ought to move someplace else!!
  11. Wow!!!! Do you know that hospitals in the US are REQUIRED to provide translaters?????? First of all...it was NOT a "tragedy" and they did NOT save my husbands life!!!!!! Quite the opposite.....if they had done a simple urinalysis and given him antibiotics, we would NOT have had to use an air ambulance! Second of all, who the hell are you to presume that I had an "attitude"???? It's pretty hard to have an "attitude" when you don't speak the language!! I guess the pastries I brought them EVERY SINGLE DAMN MORNING offended them??? Lastly, who gives a sh%+ what YOU remember about a post???
  12. LOL!!! Fortunately we had been to Paris before so had seen most of the sights! What was most shocking was that NOBODY at the hospital spoke much English! I had to have the American Embassy call several times just to ask questions for me. Highly recommend Le Dokhans hotel..they were wonderful to me. Yes, the cruise and airfare are relatively minor compared to the evacuation. The hospital cost wasn't even that bad...$17,000 for 11 days that included several CT scans, blood work and other tests!!
  13. We had 2 trips planned for 2023 and for the first time, I bought an annual policy. My thought was that we probably wouldn't use it (we never have filed a claim) but if we did use it on the first trip, I would just purchase another policy for the second trip. Our first trip was to Paris, in April. We arrived at 6AM and by 3PM my husband was in a Paris emergency room. He was admitted to the hospital where he stayed for 11 days. The doctors advised against traveling commercially so we chartered an air ambulance. We missed our cruise of course and the second half of our first class ticket. Our hospital bill was reimbursed by our United Healthcare policy because he was admitted as an emergency. Yesterday we recieved 4 checks..one for each of us to cover our cruise and flight, one for the air ambulance and one for $250 for our UHC copay. We paid $1350 for the annual policy and the reimbursement was over $120,000. And THAT is why we always insure our trips!!! The loss of the cruise was not that big of a deal but the evacuation was significant. Note that we had to pay for the air evac ourselves and then get reimbursed by the insurance company but we were made whole so we are thrilled.
  14. Used Squaremouth to find a policy. Bought an annual policy in January, because we had 2 cruises scheduled for 2023. On our first trip, my husband got sick in Paris on our pre cruise and was admitted to the hospital from the Emergency Room. 11 days later we flew home via a chartered air ambulance. Just today, after almost 5 months, we received checks covering 100% of air ambulance, entire amount.of cruise we missed AND the $250 deductible we paid for the hospital to United Healthcare for the hospital, which they coveted because it was an emergency. Well over $100,000.
×
×
  • Create New...