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[GMCnet] New FMCA emergency medical evacuation program [message #186604]

Sun, 07 October 2012 12:41

glwgmc

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As the FMCA National Director for the GMC Cascaders, I wrote the following to be distributed to those members. It may be of interest to other club members as well so feel free to pass it along to your club if you wish.

"FMCA recently revised one of its member benefits, the Medical Emergency Evacuation program, now called FMCAssist. Formerly, this was a member benefit program which was offered for free to all FMCA members. It was an insurance policy used to pay for the costs of emergency medical evacuation where the insurance premiums were paid for basically from advertising revenues from the FMCA magazine. It was a very important program for the hand full of people each year who needed it, but was extremely expensive. With rapidly rising medical costs and dramatic decreases in advertising revenues from the magazine, it was no longer feasible to continue the program so the Board wisely decided to terminate the old program and introduce a new, more cost effective one.

Here is the new program in a nut shell. The new program will offer telephone consultation and support for free to help with a variety of functions required for emergency medical evacuation. Optionally, the member may purchase insurance for $105 per year per couple ($85 for a single) which will provide reimbursement for actual costs incurred up to the maximum amounts shown in brackets beside each function. The key is that without purchasing the optional insurance, the program only provides telephone consultation support. All expenses incurred are the direct responsibility of the member. So, you need to purchase the optional insurance in order to have any of your costs covered.

The following functions come into play when you are more than 100 miles from home. There are restrictions so read the fine print, but here is a summary.

1) Emergency medical evacuation/repatriation [reimbursement up to $500,000]

2) Transport of one family member to go with the injured/ill party [reimbursement up to $50,000]

3) Return of mortal remains [up to $50,000]

4) Return of dependents [up to $50,000]

5) Return of vehicle [up to $5,000]

6) Return of pet [up to $1,000]

7) Replacement of medication and glasses [up to $500]

8) The other functions provided are consultation only, there is no reimbursement. See the October 2012 issue of Family Motor Coaching pages 14-17 for details.

Jerry Work, GMC Cascaders FMCA National Director"

Jerry
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