All three options under the Bucknell University Faculty and Staff Health Plan provide emergency and urgent care services to faculty, staff, and/or their covered dependents when traveling abroad for personal reasons. Any service that would be treated in an emergency room or urgent care clinic (were services rendered domestically) would be considered covered when accessed abroad. Please note, under the PPO and HDHP plans, urgent care services will be reimbursed at the out-of-network reimbursement level. Members will be required to pay for services when rendered and file a claim for reimbursement upon their return. Itemized receipts will be necessary when submitting claims.

• Emergency Care Defined: Any health care service provided to a Member after the sudden onset of a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity or severe pain, such that a prudent layperson, who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in: a) placing the health of the Member, or with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of a woman or her unborn child, in serious jeopardy; b) serious impairment to bodily functions; or c) serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.
• Urgent Care Defined: Any Covered Service provided to a Member in a situation that requires care within twenty-four (24) hours.