Don’t Let Your Medical History Stop Your From Finding Affordable Coverage
All too often medical insurance companies will refuse to provide a policy to an individual, or refuse to provide an individual with coverage for certain medical expenses, if the individual has a pre-existing medical condition. Medical insurance companies thoroughly review your application when you are first looking to acquire insurance, or if a serious medical condition is uncovered, to see if you were dishonest when filling out the application. If the medical insurance company thinks that you purposely withheld relevant aspects of your medical history they can deny coverage altogether.
If a serious illness is diagnosed short after your cover begins, the medical insurance companies become skeptical and will start looking into your application for any discrepancies. They may even think that it was a condition that was not disclosed and refuse to pay for treatments related to the illness. In order for the insurance company to cover this illness the patient must present them with medical records to prove that there is no history of this illness in your medical background.
These policies are in place to protect the insurance companies from individuals who will hide information in order to purchase a new medical policy that covers a diagnosed illness for less cost. This is an attempt on the individuals part, to save money on their medical insurance, so that they can put it to use in other aspects of their lives. If the omitted information is discovered, however, you will end up losing any money that you have put into the policy, as you will be dropped from the coverage and your funds are non refundable.
Depending on the specific medical condition, an existing condition may not mean that you will not be able to get a policy, but it may limit or exclude coverage of expenses related to that condition. Take, for example, an individual I know who regularly visits a chiropractor for back adjustments. When this individual applied for new medical insurance the insurance company excluded coverage for and back surgery or medical procedures related to the spinal cord. While this may seem reasonable to some people, consider what would happen if this individual had a horrible accident that required immediate surgery on the spine? The insurance company would not have covered this expense, even though it had nothing to do with the previous medical history.
Luckily this individual was able to get medical insurance that did not exclude back procedures or surgeries, a few years later. Because the medical insurance company changed their policy the exclusions were removed, but there is nothing to say that the insurance company won’t change their guidelines again in the future, and deny coverage altogether. If you have a pre-existing condition, be sure to thoroughly research how that condition will affect your coverage if you need to acquire new medical insurance.
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