{"id":247,"date":"2010-01-15T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2016-01-04T03:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T08:33:47","slug":"emergency-medical-evacuation-and-natural-disaster-coverage-for-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/emergency-medical-evacuation-and-natural-disaster-coverage-for-international-students.html","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Medical Evacuation and Natural Disaster Coverage for International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you are now aware there was a very serious earthquake in Haiti.\u00a0 You may be wondering what you should do and who you can turn to for help in an emergency such as this.<\/p>\n<p>You can refer to FEMA&#8217;s web page about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ready.gov\/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What to do After an Earthquake&#8221;<\/a> The most important things are to listen to the radio and to only place phone calls in the event of an emergency, since call volumes are very high during these times.<\/p>\n<p>International students and travelers should consider having a health insurance plan that will provide benefits to them for emergency medical evacuations and natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>A popular plan that offers coverage for both of these benefits is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/travel-medical-insurance\/\">Atlas Travel Series<\/a> is an excellent choice for health insurance for students needing emergency medical evacuation and natural disaster coverage.\u00a0 The Atlas Travel Series provides coverage to students and travelers outside their home country.\u00a0 It provides coverage for inpatient and outpatient services, prescription drugs, emergency medical evacuation, natural disasters,\u00a0 repatriation, doctor office visits, etc..\u00a0 This plan allows students to choose maximum coverage limits (from $50,000 to $1,000,000) and your deductible (from $0 to $2,500).<\/p>\n<p>After this plan is purchased, they will immediately receive a confirmation e-mail.\u00a0 This e-mail will contain the insurance card, letter of coverage, receipt, and visa letter and policy details.\u00a0 Students can simply print these documents out to show proof of coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you are now aware there was a very serious earthquake in Haiti.\u00a0 You may be wondering what you should do and who you can turn to for help in an emergency such as this. You can refer to FEMA&#8217;s web page about &#8220;What to do After an Earthquake&#8221; The most important things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,108],"tags":[111,287,286,284,119,285,121],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-insurance","category-travel-warnings","tag-atlas-insurance","tag-catastrophic-coverage","tag-emergency-medical-evacuation","tag-emergency-medical-evacuation-and-natural-disaster-coverage-for-international-students","tag-international-student-insurance","tag-natrual-disaster-coverage","tag-study-abroad-health-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}