Health Care Providers

So it turns out that our heath care provider has 237 preferred providers in the United Kingdom (UK) and 58 in Egypt. I actually find this quite incredible. These providers include hospitals, clinics, and individual physicians. Since we are going to spend all of our time in the UK in London I just checked out the availability there and came up with 64 preferred providers. In Egypt 45 of the 58 are in Cairo. There are 4 in Alexandria where we will be spending a couple of days. There are none in Port Said where we will be staying most of the time.

The health care provider provides an international website to get the information from and there a surprising number of countries listed. They also list collect numbers in the USA you can call if you are not able to find suitable care at the listed facilities. The collect numbers are not listed on the plan "card" that we carry so you should make note of that before you go. If you will have access to the internet while you are traveling you should be able to access the health care provider's website for additional information.

The site does say that in the event of an emergency get treatment and then call them to get authorization. If it's not an emergency call them first regardless of the circumstance if possible. There are claim forms available from our provider for international claims. You may have to pay all or part of the treatment up front depending on the arrangements with the facililty and the insurance provider. This is something you will have to take care of yourself because most plans will have their own particulars. Ours looks pretty good but won't know for sure until we have to use it and hopefully after the trip is done we still won't know how good it is.

Good luck with this part of the trip.