What is the Health Tourism Eye Treatment Travel Insurance Plan?

The Health Tourism Eye Treatment Travel Insurance is a specialized insurance solution that financially protects you against unexpected adverse events and complications that may arise after eye treatments performed abroad.

You can access your eye health policy in two different and practical ways:

Online Purchase: You can obtain your policy directly through this portal, via a fast and fully digital process.
Obtaining Through the Clinic: You can purchase your policy through the accredited healthcare facility where you will receive treatment.

For the guarantees included in the policy to be valid, the healthcare institution where your treatment will be performed must be accredited by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey and hold a health tourism authorization certificate.

What Does the Health Tourism Eye Treatment Travel Insurance Plan Cover?

The plan offers extensive coverage for all stages of your treatment process. Key guarantees include:

Treatment expenses
Airfare
Accommodation
Minor intervention in your home country
Companion expenses (including airfare and accommodation)
Travel insurance

The plan provides comprehensive protection for 6 months. ComplicationInsure covers all complications defined in medical literature and listed in the Informed Consent Form you signed before treatment.

Eye Procedures Covered by the Guarantee

The eye plan covers complications that may arise from corrective procedures such as excimer laser and LASIK, cataract surgery, ptosis surgery, glaucoma surgery, and retinal detachment surgery. Major complications covered include:

Excimer Laser Surgeries: Flap dislocation, keratitis, epithelial growth under the flap, and visual impairment greater than 0.75 diopters detected in an examination 60 days after surgery.
Cataract Surgeries: Hemorrhage, eye perforation, rupture of the lens capsule, loss of corneal transparency, burns at the incision site, retained lens fragments, infection, retinal detachment, macular edema, discomfort and pain in the eye, ptosis, glaucoma and/or double vision; visual impairment greater than 1 diopter detected in an examination 60 days after surgery, and posterior capsule opacification.
Ptosis Surgery: Recurrence of eyelid drooping.
Retinal Detachment Surgery: Recurrence of detachment, intraocular hemorrhage, cataract formation, and glaucoma.
Glaucoma Surgery: Conjunctival tear, scleral flap damage, vitreous loss, central visual field loss, decompression retinopathy, infection, bleb leak, suprachoroidal hemorrhage, and uveitis.

What Procedures Are Not Covered by Health Tourism Eye Travel Insurance?

The following situations are not covered by the policy:

Personal dissatisfaction is not considered a complication.
Genetic diseases, genetic studies, and treatments.
Expenses at alternative medicine centers, all procedures at anti-aging centers, scientifically unproven treatments, experimental treatments and medical supplies; as well as drugs, treatments, and procedures classified as experimental by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Botox applications.
Any intervention, procedure, or treatment performed outside an accredited facility.

Is Health Tourism Eye Treatment Travel Insurance Worth It?

Standard health insurance plans typically do not cover elective eye treatments. However, elective eye procedures can be quite costly. Your existing health and travel insurance will not cover optional eye treatments or any issues that may arise afterward.

After your treatment, a complication may develop after you return to your country, or you may need to return to the clinic for a revision procedure. Who will cover these expenses? These costs are usually borne by patients and are not covered by existing health insurance.

In general, your insurance will cover approximately 3% to 5% of your total health travel costs. From this perspective, it is a small fee to pay to protect your health travel investment. For more information, you can visit our education center.

Complication Insurance provides peace of mind to both authorized healthcare providers and patients against the possibility of complications. Providers can deliver the best medical care knowing they will not face financial loss due to a patient’s post-surgery medical bills.

Why Should You Purchase Your Eye Treatment Travel Insurance Plan Through ComplicationInsure?

ComplicationInsure is one of the world’s leading health tourism travel insurance providers, with a network of service centers offering the highest quality medical care.

Process Management With Us: When you need to use your insurance, we manage the entire process on your behalf with the clinic where you received treatment. You only need to focus on your health.
Fully Digital: The entire process is conducted digitally, ensuring fast and efficient handling.
Government Support: Health Tourism Complication Guarantee Insurance is supported by the Republic of Turkey.
Unconditional Cancellation Right: You have 100% unconditional and uninterrupted cancellation rights.

The risk in your planned surgery may be as low as one percent—which is quite good. Yet no one can guarantee that you will not be among that one percent.

Covered Procedures

The coverage of Complication Insurance extends to the procedures listed below. All patients undergoing one or more of the covered procedures must arrange their treatment through providers authorized for health tourism to qualify for coverage.

The following are only examples; your planned procedure may not be listed, but that does not mean it is excluded from coverage.

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