MEDEX is optional for Wake Forest University students. The BCBS Student Blue plan does provide insurance coverage internationally (for more information visit http://www.bcbsnc.com/wfu).
When you purchase a policy from MEDEX Global Solutions, you also receive a wealth of other benefits, including:
- Worldwide medical and dental referrals
- 24-hour monitoring of treatment
- Facilitation of hospital payments
- Medication, vaccine and blood transfers
- Dispatch of doctors or specialists
- Transfer of medical records
- Continuous updates to family, employer and home physician
- Hotel arrangements for convalescence
- Replacement of corrective lenses and medical devices
- Replacement of lost or stolen travel documents
- Emergency transfer of funds
- Legal referrals
- Translation services
- Transportation to join a hospitalized member
- Return of dependent children
- Transportation after stabilization following a medical emergency
- Repatriation of mortal remains
