Elective
If you have made the decision to travel abroad to undergo an elective procedure, Medical Travel Shield Australia is the specialist single trip travel insurance designed for you.
We can provide you with everything that you would expect from standard travel insurance including; lost or stolen items, accidental illness or injury and cancellations or curtailments outside of your control.
What makes Medical Travel Shield Australia different?
As well as standard cover, we provide additional benefits tailored for you as a patient within the same policy.
Those tailored benefits being:
Travel and accommodation expenses over and above the normal recovery period
Medical Travel Shield Australia will cover for costs if you have to stay at your destination loner than the normal recovery period on medical grounds.
Additional return trip within 12 months of the original treatment
We can cover economy return travel, accommodation and living expenses if your original treatment is medically assessed as unsuccessful and it is medically necessary to return to the same hospital/clinic within 12 months for corrective treatment. We do not cover the cost of the corrective treatment.
Elective procedures not covered include:
Oncology/Cancer treatments
Cardiac procedures
Organ transplants/donations
Stem cell treatment/therapy
Elective procedures can include:
Bariatric/Gastric procedures:
Gastric band
Gastric balloon
Gastric bypass
Orthopaedic procedures
Total joint replacements
Cataract procedures
If there is anything that you don’t understand or if you have any questions about our cover, please contact us:
+61 (0) 3 9258 1777
For full terms, conditions and exclusions please see the policy wording.