2011年10月19日星期三
Surgery also helps people get back to sports
 and a healthy lifestyle. Plans do  exist for professional athletes but this isn't one of them. If you have a  $10,000 benefit accident plan, and subsequently have a injury resulting into a  $10,000 ER bill, your out of pocket expense will be $100 bucks. A $10,000 dollar  hospital bill is one broken bone away even if you have a 5 Million dollar  lifetime max PPO. If you are injurNike Requined with an accident plan in force, seek out  the best doctors since you'll only be paying the deductible anyways.So what are  the draw backs? Accident insurance plans only pay for injuries that occur after  policy is in force. Plans pay hospital, doctor, or other injury related expenses  you are charged, up to the maximum benefit amount selected, less the deductible.  Helping pay the out of pocket bills associated with accidents is the core  benefit.Most accident plans used in conjunction with HDHP's will only cover up  to the HDHP deduNike Shox R4 Femmectible. Professional and College level sports injuries are no  covered either. Major medical insurance companies in the United States seem to  be doing "rate adjustments" (rate increases) every 12 months. During the initial  ER visit the doctor reviewing the MRI or X-Rays will tell you if the injury  needs surgery. Most likely, if you get injured out of country the personal  accident insurance plan provider will reimburse you the bill when you return  home and you'll need to provide a proof of loss, which is a copy of the hospital  bill while traveling abroad.Accidental injury benefits are either paid directly  to the health care provider that treated you, or plans compensate you directly  to cover the bill. Usually when someone suffers a non life threatening bodily  injury they have time to plan out the surgery. These plans would be useless if  members had some lame network provider booklet to choose from in a trauma  situation. For example, let's say someone lands on their shoulder hard and the  trauma causes a very common sports injury called a AC Joint Separation. Someone  simply can't purchase a personal accident insurance plan after an injury and try  to get the surgery paid for. So far, rate increases with this type of bodily  injury insurance supplements are rare.Individual Policy: $5,000 max benefit -  $22 monthly. What does make sense is to increase your current PPO deductible to  the face value of the accident insurance plan and save a ton of cash every month  on health insurance. This type of injury sometimes should be surgically  corrected to properly align the ligaments during healing. Family Policy: $7,500  max benefit - $41 monthly. Plans are not marketed as insurance, rather an  association based Indemnity. Of course every insurance company does rate  increases. Plans cover members outside of the United States for up to sixty  consecutive days and can be used as a form of travel insurance while abroad.  Broken bones, torn ligaments, severe lacerations are everyday events and will  most likely be the reason for that deductible to be used up. Preferably a  Surgeon who specializes in Sports Medicine and works with professional athletes.  So if you pick up a $10,000 benefit injury plan, you might as well increase your  current PPO deductible because odds are if you ever meet that deductible it will  be from a bodily injury. This is health insurance rules 101 but worth  mentioning. Personal injury insurance supplements are available to Americans up  until around age sixty five. It's the same price if you have a 3 person family  or a 10 person family).Specific personal injury insurance benefits  covered:-Physician surgical fees (inpatient or outpatient)-Emergency room-Doctor  visits-Ambulance-Nurse-Physical Therapy-Operating room (inpatient or outpatient)  -Anesthesia-Laboratory testing-Dental treatment for injured sound natural  teeth.-Air Max France Classic HommeRoom and board for general hospital confinement-Prescription  drugs-MRI's-X-Rays-Casts, Crutches, Splints, Braces.-Blood plasma-Rental of  durable medical equipmentOne of the most common uses for this form of emergency  room insurance is to offset the high out of pocket exposure that many HDHP (High  Deductible Health Plans) have. Typical deductibles now a days is $5,000 or  $10,000.The problem with such a high deductible is that any bodily injury  resulting into a ER visit will max out the deductible. These clever plans have  many nicknames including supplemental accident coverage, 24 hour accident plan,  emergency room insurance, and personal accident insurance supplement. Typical  deductibles are $100 to $250 dollars. Personal injury insurance plans cover this  gap well.Adam Santi has been a licensed health insurance broker since 2004. The  limited accident health insurance plan only covers bodily injuries and not  sickness. If you don't have a major medical insurance plan in place, picking up  a injury policy as a stand alone is a good idea.Outpatient surgeries is one of  the best uses of these supplements. If your a parent, review the plan carefully  and make sure policy covers kids sports leagues. A large percentage of health  insurance deductibles are met from emergency room claims. It's for this reason  that educated health insurance agents have been suggesting ER supplements to  their clients for years. AC joint separation is a shoulder injury when the  ligaments in the shoulder separate from the hard blow. Keep your out of country  vacations down to two months at a time, and policies cover accidental injuries  up to benefit level of $2,500, $5,000, $7,500, or $10,000 per accident. Some  accident health insurance supplements only pay members for loss and others pay  off the hospital or doctor for you. Every health insurance client I have who has  a PPO Catastrophic style plan gets rate increases every year even if they don't  file a single claim. Incredibly, accident benefits can be used with any licensed  doctor, hospital emergency room, urgent quick care facility, or medical clinic.  Family Policy: $10,000 max benefit - $47 monthly.(Family monthly dues include  everyone. That's the beauty of indemnity plans.Ballpark figures from the leading  accident plans in this health insurance supplement niche are the following.  Indemnity's compensate people for a loss up to a predetermined amount. This  emergency room coverage has no health questions when applying and the accident  medical coverage is a guarantee issue. Freedom to use any doctor or hospital is  because it's injury coverage. Benefits are payed per accident or per injury  meaning every claim you file is treated as a separate event and benefits reset.  A lot of injuries need surgery in order to heal correctly. Kids league sports  like little league baseball, youth soccer, and high school sports (including  football) are covered on the best plans. Adam is also a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Black  Belt and has become an expert on getting himself injured, tapping out, and  driving over to the local emergency room. Plans provide up front accident  coverage that can be used to pay off that $5,000 or $10,000 deductible. Even  though plans are guarantee acceptance, any claims you file or injuries that  result in a financial loss, are only payable after policy is active. In fact,  the only way you won't get a rate increase with a PPO in the United States is by  purchasing an optional upgrade for a "Rate Guarantee". One huge benefit with  personal ER plans is being able to choose the surgeon for the outpatient  surgery. So it doesn't make any sense to have a $2,500 deductible with Blue  Cross Blue Shield (just an example) and a $10,000 benefit accidental injury plan  since the plan will only pay up to $2,500 to match the Blue Cross deductible. In  other words, this style of injury insurance pays up to $2,500, $5,000, $7,500,  or $10,000 US dollars with a $100 deductible, per covered injury. So a accident  plan not only insures the high deductible but also give you the stress free  decision to increase the PPO deductible and possibly cut the health insurance  premium in half. A virtual zero deductible effect is what your looking for here.  However, these are not in that category so membership plans rate increases do  happen but not every 12 months like PPO carriers. In this shoulder injury  example, having the AC joint separation surgery with the best Orthopedic Surgeon  around is a great luxury. In this case, personal injury insurance indemnity pays  up to a benefit (policy face value) of $2,500, $5,000, $7,500, or $10,000 US  dollars per accident.Since plans are technically not insurance, members pay  association dues which give members access to accident medical coverage.  Individual Policy: $7,500 max benefit - $28 monthly.Individual Policy: $10,000  max benefit - $34 monthly.Family Policy: $5,000 max benefit - $35 monthly. Rate  increases every 12 months have forced Americans to increase the deductible to  keep monthly premiums affordable. Deductible is the dollar amount you / member  pays before the insurance plan pays. Also, injuries relating to adult  competitions have some gray area. Kids and emergency rooms are almost synonyms,  especially if children are involved in youth sports. Check out my website to  apply online to the industries leading accident health insurance  supplement.personal injury insurance  supplementhttp://www.accidenthealthinsuranceplan.com/.
  
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