Inpatient care includes any treatment where you need to stay in a hospital bed for one night or more. This is usually for more serious conditions or injuries – if you needed surgery, for example. If you don’t need to stay overnight, but still need to stay in a hospital bed for your treatment, you’ll be considered as a ‘day-patient’.
For inpatient care, you need to be admitted by a doctor, who confirms that you need to stay overnight for your treatment. The time this takes depends on the severity of your condition or injury, as well as the hospital you’re in.
Examples of when you might need inpatient care or hospitalisation:
If you need treatment but don’t need to stay overnight, it’s referred to as outpatient care.
Inpatient care can be costly if you’re not insured, as there are a lot of different parts of the care which add to the expenses. For example your hospital bed, your meals, hospital staff, the treatment itself, and any initial health checks, blood tests or similar. Depending on where you are, just a hospital bed for the night can cost anything from £135 in Belgium, to £320 in Nigeria*.
With AXA’s global health plans, all cover levels include inpatient and day-patient treatment charges (from hospitals, consultants, physicians, surgeons and anaesthetists) – up to your overall policy limit.
You’ll also be covered for psychiatric treatment, overnight accommodation for a parent and, in case of a medical emergency, ambulance transport to or between hospitals.
You’ll have access to these benefits, whichever cover level you choose:
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We can help you get fast access to expert medical care, whenever you need it and wherever you travel. If you’d like outpatient cover included in your plan, just make sure you select the ‘outpatient’ box, in Step 2 of getting a quote online. You’ll then be able to download a summary of benefits, for the detail on exactly what’s covered in your selected plan.
We make it easy for you to get international health insurance to suit your company’s needs. If you’d like to include outpatient medical cover, just let us know, along with how many people you need to cover. We’ll work with you to find the right plan for your business, so you can support and retain your best talent.
*Figures sourced from the AXA Select provider network 2022.
1The Virtual Doctor service is provided by Teladoc Health and is part of the Virtual Care from AXA offering. Telephone appointments can be booked 24/7, 365. Callbacks are typically within 24 hours. Operating hours vary according to region. For availability in your local market and further information on the Virtual Doctor service, please click here.
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