All three options under the Bucknell University Faculty and Staff Health Plan provide emergency and urgent care coverage for you and your covered dependents while traveling internationally. This includes services typically treated in a domestic emergency room or urgent care clinic.

The Bucknell University Faculty and Staff Health Plan defines emergency care and urgent care as follows:

• Emergency Care: 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: Any Covered Service provided to a Member in a situation that requires care within twenty-four (24) hours.

Under the PPO and CDHP plans, urgent care services will be reimbursed at the out-of-network level. You will likely need to pay for services when rendered and then file a claim for reimbursement upon their return. Itemized receipts are essential for claim submission.

While your domestic health plan covers international emergency and urgent care, it does not provide comprehensive medical coverage abroad.