Medical evacuation insurance - Italy

[fwafwow]

I have purchased travel protection/evacuation insurance in the past, but for different situations (in the back country of the US, for a college aged son on spring break in Mexico, etc.) But it seems there are many more options than when I last compared - MedJet, Emergency Assistance, SkyMed, Global Rescue, and more. In the past I have used CAP Travel Assistance, but I'm open to others. If relevant, I have an inReach Mini but I am currently not planning to bring it.

There will be two of us and we will be in Italy for 8 days, plus travel to and from. Any suggestions?

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Huh, this isn’t something I think I’d pursue for Italy, what is your driving motivation?

I’ve gone to places I’d want it (semi rural China, India, etc) if traveling on personal time but it was for work so already under that umbrella.

 

[fwafwow]

Huh, this isn’t something I think I’d pursue for Italy, what is your driving motivation?

I’ve gone to places I’d want it (semi rural China, India, etc) if traveling on personal time but it was for work so already under that umbrella.

Cheap insurance to choose to fly to the US if I prefer to be treated here. It's like $79 for CAP, so if I'm in need of medical help and decide where I am is cool, I stay there. The most I'm out is that sum. Italy isn't on my list of concerns (like Mexico). It also includes natural disaster, terrorism, crime, political unrest, etc. None of those are of concerns for me in Italy. But in my paranoid mind, why not?

 

[Nickofthewoods]

Back in July a good friend of mine was travelling through Portugal and Italy with his family when he slipped on some type of old rock wall and fell 20 feet, breaking his pelvis. He was sent to a hospital in Rome where he spent over a week and apparently there were no rooms available so he was just in a hallway with no air conditioning the entire time. Due to the nature of the injury he couldn't sit in an upright position so could not fly back home on a normal commercial flight and had to get an air-bnb for another 10 days or so. When he had recovered enough he booked a business class flight home which allowed for him to recline his seat enough to not be in intense pain. I think he wishes he had purchased some kind of evac plan that could have gotten him home sooner if at all possible. In the past I have gone through nationwide and it provided a med-evac service back to US, though I don't remember all the details.

 

[wapitibob]

Zoleo offers $50,000 coverage thru global rescue for members at $40 year.

 

[Marbles]

Zoleo offers $50,000 coverage thru global rescue for members at $40 year.

$50k will cover most helicopter rides to a local hospital, only going to be some fraction of the cost of an international fixed wing medevac flight.

If my memory is correct, a medical evacuation from Ketchikan to Seattle is typically north of $100k, depending on what services you need, you could cross half a million on an international flight.

 

[Billy Goat]

Mine was almost 64k to go 32.34 miles, hospital to hospital transport without anything special.

No idea on anything international.