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The Bronze Plan

Our Bronze plan is our most cost-effective option. Whether you’re a frequent flyer or an international student, our Bronze plan has been designed to give you peace of mind when living abroad. You can add on specific benefits that are important to you, or, if you simply need to prove you have cover to enter a specific country, this could be the right plan for you.

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The Bronze Plan

Our Bronze plan is our inpatient plan for people who require cost-effective cover against serious health issues.

As standard, the Bronze plan includes:

  • Annual benefit limit US$1.5m
  • Hospital costs
  • Cancer treatment
  • Mental health treatment
  • Medical evacuations
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Benefits

What am I covered for?

Our Bronze plan covers you for the below essential benefits:

Inpatient medical treatment at a top-rated hospital or medical clinic of your choosing

Cover for cancer treatment, including cover for cancer genome testing

Cover for inpatient and daypatient mental health treatment

Cover for post-hospital doctor visits, specialist consultations, and diagnostic tests

Evacuation for treatment of emergency life or limb-threatening conditions when not available locally

Find out more about the essential benefits that come as standard on our Bronze plan:

When people think of health insurance, they tend to think about hospital and hospital treatment. Some insurance providers have their own network of hospitals, which means you can only use the hospitals permitted by your provider. We don’t place any such restrictions on where you receive your medical treatment. This means you’ll always have access to the top-rated hospitals and medical clinics within your coverage zone.

If you’re admitted to hospital, you’ll stay in a semi-private room. You’ll also get cover for outpatient treatment you receive within 90 days of your discharge from hospital, and you’re always covered in full should you ever need cancer treatment or advanced diagnostic tests.

If you’re admitted to hospital you are covered for:

  • Pre-admission tests
  • Your accommodation costs
  • Surgeon, anaesthetist & doctor’s fees
  • Nursing care
  • Drugs & surgical dressings
  • Operating theatre charges
  • Intensive care
  • Pathology, X-rays, scans & diagnostic tests
  • Physiotherapy
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Cancer can affect you anywhere, at any time. We’re committed to providing the strongest benefits to give you the best chance of overcoming cancer.

We’ll also cover you for cancer genome testing, which sequences the genes of your cancerous cells to help determine the best course of treatment for you.

Finally, cancer is a condition that patients must often learn to live with. So we give you benefits for wigs following chemotherapy, counselling with a psychologist, and consultations with a dietitian.

Cancer cover includes:

  • Tests, scans, and cancer drugs
  • Chemotherapy
  • Radiotherapy
  • Immunotherapy
  • Genome testing
  • Consultations (both as an outpatient and an inpatient)
  • Restorative dental treatment following chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Reconstructive surgery to restore your appearance (that you receive in the 90-day period following your discharge from hospital)
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There is no telling how the experience of moving to or living in another country can affect someone. Expats are at a higher risk of experiencing mental health issues than people living in their home country.

That’s why the Bronze plan covers your mental health as well as your physical health.

Bronze plan mental health cover includes:

  • Inpatient and daypatient treatment
  • Specialist mental health consultations
  • Specialist mental health medication prescribed by a doctor
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International health insurance isn’t just for serious health issues. What about when you just want to pop to the local doctor’s surgery or the pharmacy?

The Bronze plan covers you for outpatient treatment (i.e. medical treatment for which you don’t need to be admitted to hospital) for a 90 day period following your discharge from hospital.

You’re covered for:

  • Doctor visits & specialist consultations
  • Diagnostic tests (X-rays, MRI scans, CAT scans)
  • Emergency treatment you receive in the emergency ward of a hospital
  • Physiotherapy
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If you have a medical emergency and the treatment that you urgently need isn’t available locally, then we will arrange emergency medical evacuation.

We’ll evacuate you by road, sea or air if you suffer a life-threatening or limb-threatening condition that requires an immediate hospital treatment that is not possible locally.

  • Emergency medical evacuation
  • Access to a 24-hour medical assistance helpline
  • Return airfare to your country of residence following your evacuation
  • Travel & accommodation expenses of a companion while you’re hospitalised following your emergency
Learn more about Medical Evacuations
Think you might need more cover?
Find out more about our Silver Plan
Cover level

Level of cover

The detailed table below shows the level of coverage you have on our Bronze plan:

Bronze
Annual benefit limit US$1,500,000
Hospital costs
Hospital accommodation Semi-private room (option to upgrade to a private room)
Hospital treatment
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Parent accommodation
Local ambulance
Hospital cash benefit Up to US$150 per night (maximum of 60 nights)
Advanced diagnostic tests
Cancer treatment
Cancer treatment  
Cancer genome tests  
Cash benefit upon diagnosis of cancer
Wigs Lifetime limit of US$150
Counselling Lifetime limit of US$500
Dietician Lifetime limit of US$100
Organ, bone marrow or tissue transplants
Transplants and related treatment  
Donor costs (per transplant) Up to $25,000
Kidney dialysis
Kidney dialysis  
Reconstructive surgery
Reconstructive surgery Cover for inpatient, daypatient & post-hospital treatment only
Congenital or hereditary conditions
Treatment for congenital and hereditary conditions Up to US$50,000 for inpatient, daypatient & post-hospital treatment only
Mental health treatment
Lifetime limit for mental health treatment US$50,000
Inpatient & daypatient mental health treatment (12-month waiting period) Up to 30 days
Outpatient mental health treatment (12-month waiting period) Up to 10 consultations (inpatient, daypatient & post-hospital treatment only)
Outpatient mental health medication (12-month waiting period) Up to US$500 for inpatient, daypatient & post-hospital treatment only, with a 20% co-insurance
HIV/Aids treatment
HIV/AIDS treatment (24-month waiting period) Up to US$5,000 for inpatient & daypatient only

= Full cover (up to the annual benefit limit for the Bronze plan: US$1.5m)
= No cover

Full information on Bronze plan coverage, full T&Cs, limitations and exclusions that would apply to your policy can be found in your plan agreement should you decide to purchase a plan. Some benefits are optional, and can be added to your plan using the online quote tool. The information is accurate for health plans starting between 01 January 2024 and 31 December 2024.

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Add-ons

Customise your plan

Make your Bronze plan work for you by customising it with our range of optional benefits, including:

As standard, the Bronze plan offers semi-private accommodation if you’re admitted to hospital, with semi-private en-suite bathroom or shower room.

You can opt to select the private hospital room option, meaning you’ll have cover for a private room with an en-suite bathroom or shower room for the duration of your stay in the hospital.

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Emergency medical evacuation is a vital part of any expat’s medical coverage – that’s why it comes as standard on all our plans.

Adding Medevac Plus gives you greater peace of mind for your life abroad. Additional benefits include a lower threshold for evacuation for cancer tests and treatment that cannot be provided locally, advanced repatriation to your country of residence if within your coverage zone and additional costs for a companion to ensure you have a loved one with you for support.

Learn more about Medevac Plus

Adding the optional personal accident cover is a great way to increase the cover provided by your health plan without breaking the bank.

With the personal accident plan, we’ll pay you a cash lump-sum benefit if an accident results in your death, loss of sight, loss of limb or your permanent and total disablement within 2 years of the accident.

Learn more about Personal Accident Cover
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If you’re not happy with your health plan or the service we provide, and you haven’t made a claim, we’ll refund the premium you have paid without question
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Tailor your plan

On a budget? At William Russell, we help you build a plan tailored specifically to you, to help you control your premium. There’s a range of tools you can use to tailor your Bronze plan to your needs.

They will help you put the finishing touches to your health plan, and can help you reduce the amount you spend on international health insurance each month or year.

Five ways to reduce your premium

Notes on our health plans

All the benefits on this webpage are per member per policy year, unless we state otherwise. We show the benefit limits in US dollars, but we can also denominate your policy in pounds sterling or Euros. You won’t find complete information for our plans on this webpage, nor the full T&Cs, limitations, and exclusions that would apply if you purchase a health insurance policy. You can find complete information in the plan agreement, which we suggest you read together with this webpage. We work hard to ensure the information we provide on this webpage is accurate and up-to-date, but inaccuracies are possible. We rectify errors as soon as we become aware of them. The T&Cs that apply to your policy are those found in your plan agreement.

Wherever you go, go with total peace of mind

At William Russell, we have over 30 years’ experience of helping expatriates move abroad and settle into their new lives overseas by providing world-class international health insurance.

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