Experimental or Investigative definition

Experimental or Investigative means treatments, devices or prescription medications which are recommended by a Physician, but are not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatments, devices or prescription medications are being used. This includes any treatments, procedures, facilities, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies not recognized as accepted medical practice, and any of those items requiring federal or other governmental agency approval not received at the time services are rendered.
Experimental or Investigative means a drug, device, medical treatment or procedure that:
Experimental or Investigative means treatment, a device or prescription medication which is recommended by a Physician, but is not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatment, device or prescription medication is being used. This includes any treatment, procedure, facility, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies not recognized as accepted medical practice, and any of those items requiring federal or other governmental agency approval not received at the time services are rendered.

Examples of Experimental or Investigative in a sentence

  • Experimental or Investigative Services Experimental or investigational services or supplies, including any complications or effects of such services.

  • The services to be provided outside Canada must not be Experimental or Investigative in nature.

  • For drugs and medicines that do not require a prescription for their use; drugs and medicines approved by the FDA for Experimental or Investigative use, or prescription drugs purchased from a Physician for self-administration outside a Hospital.

  • No benefits are payable for any expenses incurred for Experimental or Investigative procedures.

  • Experimental or Investigative: any Treatment, procedure, facility, equipment, drug, drug usage or vitamin therapy that, in the opinion of Alberta Blue Cross after consultation with its Health Care/Health Service consultants Extension: the purchase of additional days of coverage to the Alberta Blue Cross Travel Benefit, in this Agreement.


More Definitions of Experimental or Investigative

Experimental or Investigative means treatment, a device or prescription medication which is recommended by a Physician, but is not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatment, device or prescription medication is being used. This includes any treatment, procedure, facility, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies not recognized as accepted medical practice, and any of those items requiring federal or other governmental agency approval not received at the time services are rendered. “Family Member” means the Insured’s or Traveling Companion’s spouse, Domestic Partner, Child, daughter-in- law, son-in-law, brother, sister, mother, father, grandparents, grandchild, step-child, step-brother, step-sister, step- parents, parents-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, legal guardian, Caregiver, foster child, ward, or legal ward, or spouse or Domestic Partner of any of the above.
Experimental or Investigative means treatment, a device or prescription medication which is recommended by a Physician, but is not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatment, device
Experimental or Investigative means treatments, devices or prescription medications which are recommended by a Physician, but are not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatments, devices or prescription medications are being used. This includes any treatments, procedures, facilities, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies
Experimental or Investigative means treatments, devices or prescription medications which are recommended by a treating Physician, but are not considered by the medical community as a whole to be safe and effective for the condition for which the treatments, devices or prescription medications are being used. This includes any treatments, procedures, facilities, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies not recognized as accepted medical practice, and any of those items requiring federal or other governmental agency approval not received at the time services are rendered. The Company will consult with the treating Physician and licensed medical professionals as well as internal and external doctors on an as needed basis to determine if the above treatments, devices or prescriptions are Experimental or Investigative.
Experimental or Investigative means any treatments, procedures, facilities, equipment, drugs, drug usage, devices, or supplies:
Experimental or Investigative means in connection with a drug, device, treatment, or procedure that:
Experimental or Investigative means not approved or broadly accepted and recognized by the Canadian medical profession as an effective, appropriate and essential Medical Treatment of a Sickness or Injury, in accordance with Canadian medical standards.