Emergency Care means management for an illness or injury which results in symptoms which occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and requires immediate care by a medical practitioner to prevent death or serious long term impairment of the insured person’s health.
Emergency Care means care to treat a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention may result in serious impairment to bodily function, serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part, or placing the health of the individual in serious jeopardy.
Emergency Care means management for a severe illness or injury which results in symptoms which occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and requires immediate care by a medical practitioner to prevent death or serious long term impairment of the insured person's health.
Examples of Emergency Care in a sentence
Members are covered for Emergency care and Medically Necessary urgent care anywhere in the world.
If you need Emergency care while traveling and are admitted to a non-network hospital, you or a family member must notify us within 24 hours after care begins, or as soon as is reasonably possible.
Emergency care may include, where applicable: examination and evaluation by HOST AGENCY’s emergency department or other appropriate facility as soon as possible after the injury; emergency medical care immediately following the injury as necessary; initiation of the Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), and/or HIV protocol as necessary; and HIV counseling and appropriate testing as necessary.
More Definitions of Emergency Care
Emergency Care means a medical or behavioral health exam done in the Emergency Department of a Hospital and includes services routinely available in the Emergency Department to evaluate an Emergency Condition. It includes any further medical or behavioral health exams and treatment required to stabilize the patient.
Emergency Care. Emergency care means management for an illness or injury which results in symptoms which occur suddenly and unexpectedly, and requires immediate care by a medical practitioner to prevent death or serious long term impairment of the insured person’s health.
Emergency Care means all services delivered in an emergency care facility which are necessary to screen and stabilize a covered person. The plan must cover this care if a prudent lay person having average knowledge of health services and medicine and acting reasonably would have believed that an emergency medical condition or life- or limb threatening emergency existed.
Emergency Care means the performance of acts or procedures under emergency conditions in the observation, care and counsel of persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities; in the administration of care or medications prescribed by a licensed physician or naturopathic physician, insofar as any of these acts is based upon knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical and social science as required by a completed course utilizing an approved curriculum in prehospital emergency care. “Emergency care” does not include acts of medical diagnosis or prescription of therapeutic or corrective measures.
Emergency Care means care for an acute illness or unexpected health care need that cannot be deferred until the next scheduled sick call or physician's visit.
Emergency Care means all treatment of a bodily injury which manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity such that absence of immediately attention could reasonably be expected to result in death, serious impairment to bodily functions or serious dysfunction to a bodily organ or part. Such emergency care shall include all medical necessary care immediately following an occurrence, including but not limited to, immediate pre- hospitalization care, transportation to a hospital or trauma center, emergency room care, surgery, critical and acute care. Emergency care extends during the period of initial hospitalization until the patient is discharged from acute care by the attending physician. Emergency care shall be presumed when medical care is initiated at a hospital within 120 hours of the occurrence.
Emergency Care means those medical services rendered for an emergent medical condition or protection of the public health.