Bupa Global’s long-term strategy remains centred on growth in our core health insurance category, where we believe we can add most value. To ensure we can continue to deliver an even better experience for our customers, we have made the decision to exit the global travel insurance market to focus our efforts and resources on strengthening our presence within the international health insurance market.
From 1 July 2021, we will stop any new sales of:
Yes, we have made the decision to exit the global travel insurance market completely.
No, as long as you are travelling within your active policy dates you will be covered, in line with the terms and conditions of your policy.
Yes, you can continue to enjoy the same quality service and benefits up until the day your travel policy ends.
Yes, you can make changes to your policy, as per the standard terms and conditions, up until your policy end date.
You can change the start date of your insurance to an earlier date than initially chosen, as long as your insurance has not commenced, and the new start date is not before the present date. You cannot change the start date of your insurance to a later date than initially chosen.
Yes, you can extend your Single Trip Travel insurance up to the maximum insurance period of 12 months.
Yes, you can continue to purchase extra travel days for trips of more than one month’s duration until the policy ends.
Yes, you can add covers and persons to your Single Trip Travel insurance within the existing rules for this until the end date of your insurance.
Yes, you can add covers and persons to your Annual Multi-Trip Travel insurance within the existing rules for this until the insurance ends in 2021/22.
You can terminate your insurance in accordance with the standard policy terms and conditions.
Yes, as outlined in the policy terms and conditions, and as long as the claiming incident happened before the policy end date.
Yes, your contact details will remain the same.
There will be no change to how claims are handled in the run-off, and we’ll continue to provide the same high level of service that you always expect from us.
We will keep customer records for as long as it is reasonable to ensure that we have met the obligations we have to our customers and by law. This means that we will normally keep customer records for up to 10 years after the policy has lapsed. This is in order to settle any claims that the customer may have under their policy, which have not already been time-barred.
Yes, you can cancel the insurance within 14 days of the date of your purchase for a full refund if you purchased travel insurance with the duration of one month or more.
For more information, please see section 28.3 of your policy document.
You can contact our Bupa Global Assistance team at any time in case of illness and emergency while travelling:
Bupa Global Assistance
We are at your disposal 24 hours a day.
Bupa Global Travel insurance customers:
Service:
You can also contact the Bupa Global Travel Customer Service on weekdays between 9am-4pm (CET) on the following details:
Bupa Global Travel Customer Service
Our single trip insurance allows you to buy cover for one trip that can be up to 365 days long.
Our annual multi-trip travel insurance covers you for as many trips as you like in one year, each trip can last up to one month. The one month cover begins from the day you leave your country of residence. If one of your trips extends beyond one month, you can extend your insurance to cover the extra days by purchasing extra days online.
No, our travel insurance does not offer cover whilst you are travelling in the country in which you reside.
Yes, both our single trip and annual multi-trip travel policies cover you for holidays, leisure travel and business trips.
Please note that the cover for personal liability/3rd person liability is not available while you are travelling for business.
We cover you almost anywhere in the world including the USA. However, we only provide cover in Afghanistan, Crimea, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Venezuela if we have pre-approved the risk. Please contact us if you plan to travel to one of these countries. Any cover approved for Afghanistan and Iraq will incur an additional premium (i.e. cost more).
No. Our travel insurance policies cover policy holders for the same activities no matter your age up to our age limit of 69, if you buy an annual multi-trip policy, or 74 for single trip insurance policies.
Yes, you can choose any recognised hospital or treatment facility*, but in order to be guided to your nearest appropriate facility during travel, we recommend that you call our 24-hour medical team, who will help you with this and other medical assistance you may need during travel.
* We are unable to cover the treatment costs for a small number of providers. Please check this list, as it is regularly updated.
Bupa Global Assistance
Contact us 24/7 on:
Yes, you can terminate your policy with effect from the end of a calendar month, with 30 days prior notice, for a refund of the remaining months. If you’ve had your annual multi-trip insurance policy for less than a year, there will be an administration fee of USD 100/EUR 75/GBP 60/CHF 95.
After you’ve had your annual multi-trip insurance policy for more than a year, you can terminate it without a cancellation fee.
Yes, you can choose any recognised hospital or treatment facility*, but in order to be guided to your nearest appropriate facility during travel, we recommend that you call our 24-hour medical team, who will help you with this and other medical assistance you may need during travel.
* We are unable to cover the treatment costs for a small number of providers. Please check this list, as it is regularly updated.
Bupa Global Assistance
Contact us 24/7 on:
If you have lost a filling, broken a tooth or have an infection or injury, whilst travelling outside of your home country, we cover pain relieving dental treatment if it requires immediate treatment only (see policy conditions art. 6.4)
On myPage, you can see see all of your insurance documents, make payments, and request changes i.e. to your address details, adding an extra person to your insurance cover or adding/removing an extra cover.
There is one myPage account per policy number. It is not possible to have several policy numbers under a single myPage account.
If you have not entered myPage before, please create a new user by entering your policy number and date of birth dd-mm-yyyy, on the right hand side of the page. And then create a new username and password for future use.
Simply email us or call us using the details below:
Bupa Global Travel Customer Service
Contact us Monday-Friday between 9am - 4pm (CET)
Single trip policy: You can extend it up to a maximum of one year of total travel outside your country of residence. This you can do on our website.
Annual multi-trip travel policy: You can extend it by purchasing extra days if your trip is longer than a month. You can extend it up to a maximum of one year of total travel outside your country of residence. This you can do on our website.
There is no excess or deductible on any of our approved medical cover. We offer unlimited cover on eligible repatriation, hospitalisation and outpatient treatment by a recognised doctor or specialist, as well as prescribed medicines. Limits apply to some benefits, for instance prescribed treatment by a physiotherapist/chiropractor and provisional pain relieving dental treatment you can see the full details here.
The non-medical cover is an add-on to the medical cover, it provides cover for flight delays, luggage delays, theft, personal liability, missed flight connections, security and legal assistance, personal accident, death and disability.
No. With Bupa Global Travel insurance you will be covered for acute illness and accidents, whether you are pregnant or not, but prenatal care such as general check-ups and scans are not covered.
You will be covered for travel up until and including the 36th week of your pregnancy – or until the 18th week, if the pregnancy is the result of fertility treatment or you are expecting more than one child (Please see art. 23.1.7 in our conditions).
Premature birth is covered within the periods of pregnancy mentioned, if it can be documented that you have not had any complications related to the pregnancy prior to your trip. Please note, that in case of premature birth, your new-born child is not covered by the insurance.
If you have had any complications during pregnancy, please apply for pre-existing conditions cover (pdf).
No it doesn't. If the airline agrees to fly you, they also take the risk that they may have to land due to your pregnancy, so check this with your airline before your trip. Anything unexpected that requires medical attention is, of course, covered by our travel insurance.
All fees for ambulance transport are covered when medically necessary. If you are in need of a helicopter evacuation or similar during the trip, cover will be confirmed once we have had a doctor's word that it is medically necessary. If it is an urgent matter, then action must be taken, and approval can come next. This means that we can evaluate the evacuation retroactively, for example by speaking to the doctor at the clinic where you are taken to be treated.
If you are travelling into a country or a region, where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Danish embassy or a similar institution within the EU advises against travelling to before you go there, we will in this case not cover the expenses in case an evacuation is needed.
However you will still be covered in case a medical evacuation is needed.
For full terms and conditions for evacuation and medical evacuation please see the policy conditions.
We do not cover sports equipment specifically, but baggage i.e. clothing, toiletries is included if you choose the non-medical cover. Please check the limits of our non-medical cover to ensure that they are sufficient for your needs.
For more information on what is covered, please see section 14 of the policy document.
Our non-medical add-on includes liability cover, which includes both bodily injury (if you accidentally hurt others) as well as property damage (if you accidentally break something that belongs to others). We do not cover sporting equipment. Limits apply, please refer to the policy conditions.
If your flight is delayed more than 5 hours, our non-medical cover will cover additional expenses up to USD 500/ EUR 350 / GBP 300 /CHF 550 for accommodation, meals and local transportation, if you have purchased our Medical + Non-medical policy.
Our standard policies cover many lifestyle/sporting activities, including scuba diving, snorkelling, yachting, sailing, jet skiing, rafting, surfing, trekking, bungee jumping, winter sports, rugby and more. For those who are not interested in extreme sports, we cover cruises too.
We cover all sports/activities unless they are excluded in the insurance conditions.
We don’t cover training or participation in motorsport shows, motorsport races and motorsport competitions, base jumping, paragliding, hang-gliding, or rock-climbing / mountaineering that requires climbing equipment. We also don’t cover expeditions, mountaineering or trekking in Antarctica, the North Pole or Greenland.
If there have been no changes in the past 6 months, including changes to your medications, you do not have to declare pre-existing medical conditions.
A pre-existing condition is any disease, illness or injury that, within the 6 months prior to the start date of your trip has resulted in one or more of the scenarios below:
You can read all the details of our policies in the policy conditions.
All Bupa Global customers with a Travel Insurance policy can submit their claims online.
*Policy number, date of birth first and last names
*Email address
*Itemised bills
*All diagnoses related to all claims
*If you have a health insurance, travel insurance or accident insurance with another company, please state the company name and your policy number
All bills must specify:
*Diagnosis
*Type of service
*Proof of payment
*Cost of each service provided (consultation, laboratory examination, medicine, etc)
*If medicine has been purchased, a copy of the prescription should be included
All you have to do is scan your bills and corresponding receipts before attaching the documents to the online form. The document* format must be jpg, pdf, tiff or gif, and the maximum size per file is 10mb.
*Please make sure your scanned documents are clear. If we can’t read them, we will need to contact you for better versions, which will delay the claim process.
To make sure your bills are legible* upon receipt, please scan your bills and save them to pdf, jpg or tiff format. The maximum file size is 10mb. On the online form you click the browse button to find and select your documents before attaching them.
*Please make sure your scanned documents are clear. If we can’t read them, we will need to contact you for better versions, which will delay the claim process.
If you submit bills for more than one person, it is important to make sure that it is absolutely clear which person each bill concerns.
If you submit bills for persons insured on different policies, you must submit the bills for each policy separately to avoid misunderstanding.
A report issued by the airline documenting the baggage incident.
If you submit bills for more than one claim type (eg. dental, medical or baggage), you must submit a separate claim for each type to avoid any misunderstanding.
Please refer to the Policy conditions for further details on coverage for each claim type, as the below descriptions are only outlines and do not list the requirements for coverage.
*Daily hospital benefit/Daily emergency cash allowance: If you have received eligible inpatient treatment at a public hospital/at no cost and wish to claim for the cash allowance covered by the insurance.
*Flight delay:If you experienced flight delay, cancellation or overbooking of a scheduled flight and wish to claim for documented, necessary and reasonable additional expenses for accommodation, food and local transport.
*Personal accident: If an accident occurred resulting in the insured’s death, loss of a limb, loss of sight, loss of extremity, or total permanent disablement.
*Personal liability:If you need to claim for legal liability for bodily injury or property damage incurred by the insured.
*Security and legal aid: If you experience legal problems during your covered trip and need to claim for legal assistance and security.
*Theft/burglary/robbery: In case of robbery, burglary or theft of personal belongings
*Fire: In case a fire should damage your personal belongings.
No, we no longer require the original bills in order to assess your claim. We only need a scan/copy of your original bills.
We recommend you keep your original bills until your claim has been assessed.
The hospital, doctor’s office, ambulance service, etc., who provided the service for which you were billed.
In order to protect your credit card details and personal information the online claim form is based on a secure web page. You can check that a web page is secure when a 'lock' icon appears in the window of the browser and when the URL begins with "https" (instead of the standard "http").
For quick reimbursement, we recommend you have your payment transferred by credit card or bank transfer. You can also choose to receive your payment by cheque.
When you complete the online form you are asked to choose your preferred method of payment.
If you wish to have your reimbursement transferred to your bank account, we need the following information from you:
• Name and address of your bank
• ABA / SWIFT / BIC Code.
• Account number
• IBAN number (if the transfer is to a European bank)
• Sort code (if the transfer is to a British bank)
• Name of account holder
• Currency
If you wish to have your reimbursement transferred to your credit card, we need the following information from you:
• Type of card (Visa/Euro/Master/JBC)
• Name of card holder
• Card number
• Expiry date (MM/YY) of the card
• Currency
You will receive an email notifying you that your claim has been assessed. If you hold an annual travel policy your reimbursement documents will also be available on your personal website, myPage.
Once the claim has been submitted, you will receive an email confirmation as proof of submission.
We recommend you keep your original bills until your claim has been assessed.
You can submit your claim to us by post.
The address is:
Bupa Global Travel
Palaegade 8
1261 Copenhagen K
Denmark
You can also submit the claims by email.
The online claim form works with any of these browsers: Internet Explorer (version 7+), Firefox, Safari or Chrome.
