{"id":155,"date":"2008-06-17T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/when-is-the-travel-insurance-pre-existing-medical-conditions-lookback-period\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T19:06:31","slug":"when-is-the-travel-insurance-pre-existing-medical-conditions-lookback-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/when-is-the-travel-insurance-pre-existing-medical-conditions-lookback-period\/","title":{"rendered":"When Is The Travel Insurance Pre-Existing Medical Conditions Lookback Period?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Lookback Period question: If my companion or I are stable and can travel when I buy the insurance more than 181 days before the trip will I have coverage for pre-existing conditions? If I have a condition that requires a doctor visit today and I buy the insurance the next day but more than 181 days before the trip am I covered for pre-existing conditions? Hank<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hi Hank,<\/p>\n<p>The Lookback period is not the number of days before you leave on your trip. It&#8217;s the number of days before you buy a policy.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you or your traveling companion (and any non-traveling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/3\/companions.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediate family members<\/a>) have any medical condition in the Lookback Period <strong>and<\/strong> are medically stable by the travel insurance plan&#8217;s rules, you must get the trip cancellation travel insurance plan by its deadline.<\/p>\n<p>You also need to abide by the specific company&#8217;s rules to get its own Pre-Existing Medical Conditions. Go here to learn more on Pre-Existing Medical Conditions:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/3\/pre-existing.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/3\/pre-existing.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more on medically stable:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/3\/medically-stable.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.tripinsurancestore.com\/3\/medically-stable.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe Lookback Period question: If my companion or I are stable and can travel when I buy the insurance more than 181 days before the trip will I have coverage for pre-existing conditions? If I have a condition that requires a doctor visit today and I buy the insurance the next day but more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-steve-dasseos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}