KEI semester, quarter, academic year and summer programs include medical and travel insurance. Students enrolled in multiple term programs are also covered during scheduled breaks between consecutive terms. Insurance policy and coverage depend on the program location.

Students enrolled in programs at the following locations are covered by Atlas Travel Insurance Policy, which includes medical services, emergency dental, trip interruption, lost luggage, evacuation and reunion and many other services. Coverage is for $50,000 US with a $250 US deductible. The policy is administered by Multinational Underwriters Inc. and underwritten by Lloyd’s of London.

Bulgaria China Ecuador England France (Semester & Summer) Ireland

Peru Russia Spain Tanzania Thailand

Students enrolled in programs at the following locations receive basic medical coverage by the national health insurance of the host country. National health insurance differs for each country. Make sure to contact the Embassy of the host country for detailed information about medical coverage. Students also benefit from additional coverage by the International Student Identification Card (ISIC). ISIC provides basic travel insurance and discounts for student-centered activities.

France (Academic Year) India Kenya

Students who wish to purchase additional medical and travel insurance should do so before the program start date. The Health & Safety FAQs page of this website provides links to low-cost medical and travel insurance.

KEI reserves the right to change insurance policies and policy providers without notice. We will inform students of any changes prior to departure. This web page should not be used as a definitive reference of insurance policy coverage. Visit MultiNational Underwriters and International Student Identification Card for the most current information.

Don't hesitate to contact a KEI advisor if you have questions. We will be glad to help!

The Atlas Travel Insurance policy provides comprehensive medical and travel insurance. Below is detailed information about the coverage. This information is provided for your convenience only, not as a definitive reference of insurance policy coverage. For a comprehensive description of the Atlas Travel Insurance policy, contact MultiNational Underwriters, Inc., at (800) 605-2282, (317) 262-2132, www.mnui.com or insurance@mnui.com.

When Does Coverage Become Effective and When Does It End?
Your coverage becomes effective on the scheduled departure day for the program. Your coverage will end on the scheduled return date for the program.

Does the Atlas Series Provide Any Home Country Coverage?
No. Under certain circumstances, the Atlas Series will provide limited Home Country Coverage. If you study abroad for more than 3 months, and you purchase the additional Incidental Home Country Rider, you are covered for medical expenses only during one Incidental trip to your Home Country of up to 10 days. If you are interested in purchasing the Incidental Home Country Rider, please inform KEI at least 45 days prior to your scheduled departure date. Home Country is defined as follows: If you are a U.S. citizen, your Home Country is the United States, regardless of the location of your Principal Residence. If you are not a U.S. citizen, your Home Country is the country where you principally reside and receive regular mail.

What Is Covered?
All benefits, except Lost Checked Luggage, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Common Carrier Accidental Death, are subject to the $250 Deductible and Coinsurance. Policy Limits apply to all benefits:

Medical

• Inpatient and Outpatient charges made by a Hospital.
• Charges made by a Physician, surgeon, radiologist, anesthesiologist, and any other medical specialist to whom the Physician has referred the case.
• Charges made for dressings, sutures, casts or other supplies prescribed by the attending Physician or specialist.
• Charges for diagnostic testing using radiology, ultrasonographic or laboratory services.
• Charges for oxygen and other gases and anesthetics and their administration. Charges for prescription drugs, for treatment of a covered Injury or Illness, but not for the replacement of lost, stolen, damaged, expired or otherwise compromised drugs.
• Charges made by a licensed Extended Care Facility upon direct transfer from an acute care Hospital.
• Emergency local ambulance transport incurred in connection with Injury or Illness resulting in hospitalization.

Emergency Dental

• Emergency Dental treatment and Dental surgery necessary to restore or replace sound natural teeth lost or damaged in an Accident which is covered under this insurance.
• Emergency Dental treatment necessary to resolve acute, spontaneous and unexpected onset of pain.

Emergency Evacuation
If recommended by your attending Physician, who certifies that Evacuation is necessary to safeguard your life and that Medically Necessary treatment is not available locally, and if approved in advance and coordinated by Multinational Underwriters, Inc., the Atlas Series will provide the following benefits: emergency air and ground transportation to the nearest Hospital that is qualified to provide the Medically Necessary treatment.

Emergency Reunion
In the event of a covered Emergency Evacuation, the Atlas Series will provide the following benefits: The cost of an economy round-trip air or ground transportation ticket for one of your relatives (parent, spouse, sibling or child age 18 or older) for transportation to the area where you are hospitalized following Emergency Evacuation, and reasonable expenses for lodging and meals for your relative, for a period not to exceed 10 days.

Trip Interruption
If, after you have departed, you learn of the death of a parent, spouse, sibling or child, or you learn of the substantial destruction of your Principal Residence by fire or weather, the Atlas Series will provide the following benefit: the cost of an economy one-way air or ground transportation ticket for you to the area of your Principal Residence.

Repatriation of Remains
In event of a covered Injury or Illness resulting in your death, the Atlas Series will provide the following benefit: air or ground transportation of bodily remains or ashes to the area of your Principal Residence, and reasonable costs of preparation of your remains necessary for transportation.

Lost Checked Luggage
In the event your checked luggage is permanently lost by the carrier, the Atlas Plan will provide the following benefit: replacement of clothes and personal hygiene items, not to exceed $50 for any one item. You must file a formal claim with the transportation provider, and provide the Plan Administrator with copies of all claim forms, and proof that the transportation provider has paid you its normal reimbursement for the lost checked luggage.

Accidental Death and Dismemberment
In the event of your Accidental Death (except while traveling on a common carrier) or Dismemberment resulting from a covered Injury, the Atlas Series will provide the following benefit:

• Accidental Death -- Principal Sum of $25,000 to the Beneficiary designated on your Application. The Principal Sum shall reduce by 50% (to $12,500) if you are age 70 to 74 at time of Death, and an additional 50% (to $6,250) if you are age 75 or older at time of Death.
• Accidental Dismemberment
• Loss of 2 or more eyes or limbs -- Principal Sum of $25,000 to you.
• Loss of 1 eye or limb -- One-half of the Principal Sum ($12,500) to you.
• The Principal Sum(s) shall reduce by 50% if you are age 70 to 74 at time of Dismemberment, and an additional 50% if you are age 75 or older at time of Dismemberment.

Common Carrier Accidental Death
In the event of your accidental death while traveling on board a commercial common carrier, the Atlas Series will provide the following benefit: Principal Sum of $50,000 to the Beneficiary designated on your Application.

What Are The Policy Limits?

Deductibles:	$250 per Certificate Period.
Coinsurance - Claims incurred in US or Canada:	For the Certificate Period, Underwriters will pay 80% of the next $5,000 of Eligible Expenses after the Deductible, then 100% to the Overall Maximum Limit.
Coinsurance - Claims incurred outside US or Canada:	For the Certificate Period, Underwriters will pay 100% of Eligible Expenses after the Deductible up to the Overall Maximum Limit.
Hospital Room and Board:	Average Semi-private room rate, including nursing services.
Intensive Care Unit:	Three times Average Semi-private room rate, including nursing services.
Outpatient Treatment:	Usual, Reasonable and Customary charges.
All Other Eligible Expenses:	Usual, Reasonable and Customary charges.
Acute Onset of Pre-existing Condition:	Atlas Extra - $2,500 limit; Atlas America/Atlas International - No Coverage
Emergency Dental - Acute onset of pain:	$100 limit per Certificate Period
Local Ambulance:	$3,000 limit per Certificate Period
Emergency Evacuation:	Overall Maximum Limit
Repatriation of Remains:	Overall Maximum Limit
Emergency Reunion:	$10,000 limit per Certificate Period
Trip Interruption:	$5,000 limit per Certificate Period
Lost Checked Luggage:	$250 limit per Certificate Period (not subject to Deductible
Accidental Death and Dismemberment:	Death - $25,000 Loss of 2 Limbs - $25,000 Loss of 1 Limb - $12,500 Benefits reduce 50% at age 70 and an additional 50% at age 75.
Common Carrier Accidental Death:	$50,000
Hospital Pre-Certification Penalty:	50% of Eligible Medical Expenses.
Optional Hazardous Sports Rider:	$5,000 limit per Certificate Period
Overall Maximum Limit per Certificate Period:	Age 14 days to 69 - $50,000 (includes all benefits except Accidental Death and Dismemberment and Common Carrier Accidental Death)

What Is Excluded?
The following charges, treatments, surgeries, medications, conditions and circumstances:

• Pre-existing Conditions -- Charges resulting directly or indirectly from any Pre-existing Condition are excluded from this insurance, except, if you purchase Atlas Extra, you are covered for charges resulting from an Acute Onset of a Pre-existing Condition, up to the limit set forth in the Schedule of Benefits and Limits. A Pre-existing Condition is any Illness, Injury or medical condition or chronic or recurring Illness or Injury or medical condition, including any associated complications or consequences, which existed during the 5 years immediately preceding your effective date. An Acute Onset is a sudden and unexpected outbreak or recurrence of a Pre-existing Condition, which occurs spontaneously and without advance warning either in the form of Physician recommendations or symptoms.


• Treatment for or related to any congenital condition.


• Pregnancy, child birth, birth control, artificial insemination, infertility, impotency or sexual dysfunction, sterilization or reversal thereof.


• Mental or Nervous Disorders or Substance Abuse.


• Not incurred during the Certificate Period or the applicable Benefit Period, and charges which are not presented to Underwriters for payment within 60 days from the end of the Certificate Period or the applicable Benefit Period.


• Charges for use of Emergency Room for treatment of Illness unless the patient is directly admitted to the Hospital as Inpatient for further treatment of that Illness.


• Not Medically Necessary and administered or ordered by a Physician.


• Provided at no cost, or by a family member, or by a person who ordinarily resides with you, or which are attributable to or recoverable from any other party including government sponsored plans.


• Charges which exceed Usual, Reasonable and Customary.


• Investigational, Experimental or for Research purposes.


• While confined primarily to receive Custodial Care, Educational or Rehabilitative care.


• Venereal Disease, AIDS or ARC


• Dental treatment, including treatment of the temporomandibular joint, except for Emergency Dental treatment necessary to replace sound natural teeth lost or damaged in an Accident covered hereunder or for the relief of Acute, spontaneous and unexpected onset of pain.


• Eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, hearing implants, eye refraction, visual therapy, orthoptics or visual eye training or eye surgery (including cataract surgery and radial keratotomy) or for any examination or fitting related to these devices or procedures.


• Injury sustained while taking part in the following activities: Amateur or professional sports or athletics, except this does not include Amateur sports or athletics which are non-contact and undertaken solely for leisure, recreational, entertainment or fitness purposes unless such sports or athletics are otherwise excluded by this provision. The following are excluded: mountaineering where ropes or guides are normally used; and aviation (except when traveling solely as a passenger in a commercial aircraft); and hang gliding, sky diving, parachuting or bungee jumping; and snow skiing or snowboarding, except for recreational downhill and/or cross-country snow skiing or snowboarding (no cover provided whilst skiing away from prepared and marked in-bound territories and/or against the advice of the local ski school or local authoritative body); and racing by any animal or motorized vehicle; and spelunking; and subaqua pursuits involving underwater breathing apparatus; and jet skiing; and any other sport or athletic activity which is undertaken for thrill seeking and exposes you to abnormal or extreme risk of Injury.


• Injury sustained while under the influence of or due wholly or partly to the effects of intoxicating liquor or drugs other than drugs taken in accordance with treatment prescribed and directed by a Physician but not for the treatment of Substance Abuse.


• Willfully self-inflicted Injury or Illness and immunizations and Routine Physical Exams.


• The Deductible, and Coinsurance and charges which are not included as Eligible Expenses as described in the Master Policy, and charges which exceed the policy limits.


• Treatment required as a result of complications or consequences of a treatment or condition not covered hereunder.


• Charges for travel or accommodations, except as provided for in the Local Ambulance, Emergency Medical Evacuation, Repatriation of Remains, Emergency Reunion and Trip Cancellation sections of this insurance.


• Treatment incurred as a result of exposure to non-medical nuclear radiation and/or radioactive material(s).


• Organ or tissue transplants or related services.


• War, insurrection, riot or any variation thereof.

This is a summary of exclusions. For more details, or for a complete copy of the Master Policy, contact MultiNational Underwriters, Inc.

What If I Plan to Participate in a Sport or Athletic Activity that is excluded?
The Optional Hazardous Sports Rider is available for the adventurous traveler. This Rider adds coverage for the Amateur sports, listed in exclusion #15. The maximum policy limit for Injuries under this Rider is $5,000 and the Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefit is deleted. If you are interested in purchasing the Optional Hazardous Sports Rider please inform KEI by your enrollment deadline date.

What If I Have an Acute Onset of a Pre-Existing Condition?
Pre-Existing conditions are not covered. However, you can purchase Atlas Extra, which covers up to $2,500 for a sudden and unexpected outbreak or recurrence of a Pre-existing Condition that occurs spontaneously and without advance warning either in the form of a Physician recommendation or symptoms. If you are interested in purchasing Atlas Extra Rider please inform KEI by your enrollment deadline date.

What Are the Pre-Certification Requirements?
All hospitalizations, Emergency Evacuations, Emergency Reunions, Trip Cancellation, Repatriation of Remains must be Pre-certified. Simply call, or have your Physician call, MultiNational Underwriters, Inc. with all information relative to your claim within 48 hours of receiving treatment. Be sure to have your ID number available (will be provided prior to your departure). If you do not Pre-certify, medical expenses will be reduced by 50%, and all other expenses will be forfeited.

Who Is The Plan Administrator?
MultiNational Underwriters, Inc., headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a full service organization offering a comprehensive portfolio of insurance products designed specifically to address the insurance needs of international travelers. With over 40 years of experience in the international insurance market, the staff of MultiNational Underwriters, Inc. is ready to serve you. Our international claims specialists, medical professionals and customer service representatives are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer your questions and respond to your needs. Whether you have lost your luggage, or are in need of Emergency Evacuation, you will find our service team to be prompt, compassionate, and of the highest professional quality.

Who Is The Insurer?
Lloyd's, the largest and oldest insurance market in the world is the insurer of the Atlas Series. Rated A by AM Best Company, and A+ by Standard and Poors, Lloyd's provides financial strength and security that is unparalleled in the worldwide insurance market. Lloyd's is recognized as a market leader in the accident and health insurance arena, and is well known for its innovative products and services. Presently, Lloyd's provides accident and health insurance to millions of individuals in almost every country of the world.

Students enrolled in programs that require national health insurance are also provided with the International Student Identity Card (ISIC). Please contact the Embassy of the host country for detailed information about national insurance policy and coverage.

The following benefits and services are included with your ISIC card.

• $300,000  Emergency Medical Transportation
• $25,000  Repatriation of Remains
• $25,000  Accident Medical Expense (Includes $500 Emergency Dental Coverage)
• $5,000  Accidental Death & Dismemberment - Air
• $1,000  Accidental Death & Dismemberment - All Other
• $500  Travel Document Replacement (includes your ISIC card)
• $165 per day  Sickness/Hospital Benefit (up to 61 days)
• $100  Baggage Delay
• $100  Travel Delay(domestic Only)
• Included  Travel Guard Travel Assist

Note that ISIC benefits are provided on the KEI website for convenience only. ISIC may change coverage without notice. Visit www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm for the most updated information about ISIC.