I heartily disagree that your posts have been self-indulgent; by being willing to give the details of your experience, you are providing a lot of very useful information for those of us who are still in the nascent stage of this process. As much as I enjoy all of your posts, ones like this week’s are valuable to me on a whole other level. Thank you.
I would definitely keep the health insurance. Public is wonderful for emergencies or serious illnesses but if you want a routine exam or doctor you can have it much quicker private.
I am now also a resident in Portugal, (originally from South Africa). I have private healthcare with Allianz. My Rheumatologist prescribed my Humira Injections that I have been using for 5 years, through the National Healthcare portal. I collect these at Aveiro main (public) Hospital and I pay nothing. I recently had a knee replacement at CUF Coimbra and my experience has been very good. Allianz funded the surgery but the costs were substantially less than it would have been in South Africa.
Thanks so much for the blow by blow details of the costs and of your experience of the care you received. This is very interesting regardless of whether one ever considers being an expat in Portugal.
Nancy; Thanks so much for your sharing of the 'day to day'. I am preparing for surgery in US and fully expect to receive opioid pain meds...it's expected but worried now that I know more about how some brains are ALTERED after taking prescription...very scary! Also greatly appreciate your info about Travel Insurance. Sounds like today we need to have one year for D7 Visa, so hopefully the private 'waiting period' will be covered with the Travel insurance if there is a need.
Fascinating, and also not surprising. Skip the marble entry, and give me a reasonable bill any day. Glad it all went so well, and hope you are healing quickly!
Great post about your patient experiences. I trust you are feeling better everyday. We are planning our 2022 travel schedule. Hopefully we can take a trip to Portugal. When would you suggest ??
I also had a surgery at CUF and I had a pre authorization from my private insurance Allianz my total out of pocket was 176€ which was 10% of total cost. That was for diagnosis, treatment and one night in the Hospital. I give it a 10 out of 10:)
I heartily disagree that your posts have been self-indulgent; by being willing to give the details of your experience, you are providing a lot of very useful information for those of us who are still in the nascent stage of this process. As much as I enjoy all of your posts, ones like this week’s are valuable to me on a whole other level. Thank you.
I would definitely keep the health insurance. Public is wonderful for emergencies or serious illnesses but if you want a routine exam or doctor you can have it much quicker private.
I am now also a resident in Portugal, (originally from South Africa). I have private healthcare with Allianz. My Rheumatologist prescribed my Humira Injections that I have been using for 5 years, through the National Healthcare portal. I collect these at Aveiro main (public) Hospital and I pay nothing. I recently had a knee replacement at CUF Coimbra and my experience has been very good. Allianz funded the surgery but the costs were substantially less than it would have been in South Africa.
Thanks so much for the blow by blow details of the costs and of your experience of the care you received. This is very interesting regardless of whether one ever considers being an expat in Portugal.
Very informative
These have been really interesting and helpful! Thank you for being willing to share the details. I hope you continue to heal well and quickly.
Great information, much appreciated. BTW, neither of our SEF appointments asked for health insurance. Hmmmm.
Hi Nancy, really enjoying your blog. Thanks for all your wonderful insights.
I thought I was responding to Juli's comment directly and was expecting her response.
However, we will contact Ann at MGEN about health insurance. It is one if my wife's biggest concerns moving here.
Currently we live in Germany and are used to some very good and inexpensive health care
It would be great if you could point us to some more resources about health care in Portugal.
Best regards,
Steven
Nancy; Thanks so much for your sharing of the 'day to day'. I am preparing for surgery in US and fully expect to receive opioid pain meds...it's expected but worried now that I know more about how some brains are ALTERED after taking prescription...very scary! Also greatly appreciate your info about Travel Insurance. Sounds like today we need to have one year for D7 Visa, so hopefully the private 'waiting period' will be covered with the Travel insurance if there is a need.
Fascinating, and also not surprising. Skip the marble entry, and give me a reasonable bill any day. Glad it all went so well, and hope you are healing quickly!
Great post about your patient experiences. I trust you are feeling better everyday. We are planning our 2022 travel schedule. Hopefully we can take a trip to Portugal. When would you suggest ??
I also had a surgery at CUF and I had a pre authorization from my private insurance Allianz my total out of pocket was 176€ which was 10% of total cost. That was for diagnosis, treatment and one night in the Hospital. I give it a 10 out of 10:)
We’re you able to pay your 500 euros by credit card?
Nancy, great info. If you dropped your supplemental insurance Tricare could you reinstate it IF you were ever able to move back?
Also IF you give up your part B and you return to USA, can you reapply for that?
Stay healthy. Glad everything was approved finally.