This is only a brief summary of the plan. Please refer to your Certificate of Coverage or plan booklet for complete details about your plan including benefits, limitations and exclusions.

A38.Routine care is not covered while traveling. It may be covered if you are traveling outside California for more than 90 days. See applicable section of previous question.

UNICARE covers emergency care whenever and wherever you need it- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are faced with a life-threatening emergency, always seek immediate care by going directly to the nearest emergency room or by calling 911. Benefits for eligible emergency care will be the same whether the hospital is in or out-of-network. This is only a brief summary of the plan.

This varies according to your plan. Please contact your customer service representative for details on your plan benefits.

Yes, it is not too late to get coverage if you have already traveled or are already living outside your country of citizenship. Of course, if you already have a claim before being covered or a pre-existing condition, it won't be covered. However, some long-term medical plans will cover or exclude pre-existing conditions. Check the policy for details. If you need Vacation Insurance (Round Trip Plan), it is too late to get coverage if you are already abroad or traveling.

Most plans are intended for use primarily in the member's home area, but some include provisions for use outside of that region. Premera Blue Cross and Regence Blue Shield, for instance, have a Blue Card program in place that allows members of one plan to use providers through either carrier nationwide. In general, however, you should avoid using your insurance outside your region for routine treatments. Most insurance plans do include specific provisions for emergency treatment while traveling.

When a food addict is convinced that abstinence is the answer to recovering from food addiction, she/he will be able to go anywhere and remain abstinent. Traveling abstinently does take extra planning to ensure that we have the foods we need when we need them. Discussing travel plans with a sponsor and with other recovering food addicts can provide us with an excellent source of ideas for solutions to the challenges of traveling abstinently.

Knowing that prevention is a key to good health, Blue Cross and Blue Shield will pay your child's routine immunizations in full after a $20 copayment at your Preferred Physician.

Yes, you do have out-of-country emergency medical coverage. On the reverse side of the Extended Health and Dental identification card provided by the benefits carrier, it lists telephone numbers to contact at the time of the emergency, depending on where you are in the world. For more details on this coverage, please contact Human Resources at 661-2194 or by e-mail at

If a member has a life-threatening or severe medical emergency when he/she is away from home, the member should seek treatment immediately at the nearest emergency medical facility. The member should inform the hospital or physician that he/she is a member of a UniCare HMO and, to make it easier to assure that any bill for covered services is paid promptly, the member should call 1(888) 234-8855 (follow the voice prompts) within 24 hours after medical care begins.

A39.You can get emergency services if you are more than 20 miles away from your medical group. Call 911 or seek immediate treatment in the nearest facility. If you are admitted to a hospital, you must call us within 48 hours. Review your Evidence of Coverage booklet for more details.

We recommend running routine lab work on your pet if they are put on an anti-inflammatory to make sure that enzymatic activity in vital organs stay at appropriate levels. This should be done on a bi-annual basis. Every year, millions of unwanted dogs and cats, including puppies and kittens, are needlessly destroyed. The good news is that every pet owner can make a difference.

The series was designed to work your entire body in every class. The postures complement each other, enhancing the progress in the practice and changes in the body. It takes about three classes for your body to begin to work with the postures. By practicing the same series, you are able to work deeper in the postures and ensure more benefits over time.

The World Health Organization and the CDC are recommending people avoid "nonessential" plans to go to mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi. Health officials aren't ruling anything out, but they think this is something that occurred naturally, perhaps when a virus that usually only makes animals sick changed somehow and became able to make people sick. Home - Sars - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , Symptoms , Cause , Illness , Cure , Protection , Risk...