{"id":9126,"date":"2024-04-17T00:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2024-04-17T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:25:35","slug":"the-drawback-of-hospital-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/the-drawback-of-hospital-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drawback of Hospital of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I received this email about a year ago:
\n“Hi Steve, My husband’s in the American Hospital in Cabo San Lucas because he broke his hip. First, thank you for contacting the insurance company for us since our phones weren’t working correctly. We’re in touch with them now. Next, we also contacted my husband’s doctor as you suggested, but we don’t want to use the hospital his doctor wants. We have hospital of choice so we want him sent somewhere else. Can you help us? Liz”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I helped them, and they were very happy in the end, but I had to push against what they wanted. Hospital of Choice is touted as a big advantage, but, in my opinion, it can cloud your judgement and may result in you not getting the best overall treatment.<\/p>\n

I told Liz to contact her husband’s doctor so he could have input for the right hospital her husband would be transported to that was close to home. As it turned out, they didn’t like that hospital and wanted a different one. She asked me for help, so I asked her”: “Are either of you doctors? If not, I’m not either, so if I were you, I’d take the doctor’s advice.”<\/p>\n

They took his doctor’s advice and as it turned out, if her husband had gone to the hospital they wanted, he wouldn’t have been happy because that hospital didn’t have the expertise to best treat the kind of hip fracture he had. That’s why the doctor was recommending a different hospital. He is now fully recovered and is back to normal with no complications.<\/p>\n

How Exactly Does Travel Insurance Medical Transportation Work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Like many of the complicated parts of travel insurance, there’s confusion about how the Emergency Medical Transportion works, so I hope this will make sense to you:<\/p>\n

Early in the process of determining which is the best travel insurance plan our potential and repeat customers should get, we often hear “If something happens to me on a trip, I don’t want to go to an adequate medical facility, I want to go a better one.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Steve's<\/a><\/td>\nIf you’re on a trip and something bad happens to you medically (ie – getting hit by a cement truck<\/a>), it’s likely that you will need an Emergency Medical Transport.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What needs to take place before a transport is arranged:<\/h4>\n