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Embrace Pet Insurance offers a customizable policy unlike any other on the market. This means that as a pet parent you decide how much and what type of coverage you want. Each pet on your policy can have different maximums, deductibles, and optional coverages. For example, if you have a young, healthy dog and an older, indoor cat then you could customize pet insurance coverages for each pet to get just the right level of protection. You can customize:

A customizable policy gives you a choice on how you want to split your veterinary bills with the insurance company. For example, one of the best ways to keep your premium low but still provide maximum protection is to choose a policy with a high-deductible and a high annual maximum. So if you choose a $500 deductible with a $10,000 maximum, you have excellent major medical pet insurance that won’t pay for the small incidents but is there to really protect you from the big stuff. On the other hand, if you’re a student or a senior on a budget and you want to minimize your out-of-pocket costs then you can modify your pet insurance coverage to have a lower deductible and a lower co-pay. And it’s easy to do. The best thing is, you never have to sacrifice coverage and you get to choose how much you want to pay out of every veterinary bill and how much you want Embrace to pay. Are there any “gotchas”? Well, not really, although pre-existing conditions are not covered – some may not be covered permanently while others may be covered in your second policy year onwards. See the pre-existing condition guidelines for a more detailed explaination.

Veterinary medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years and nowhere is this more obvious than with pet meds. As well as the usual medications designed specifically for cats and dogs, veterinarians are in many cases also able to prescribe human medications for your pet. Many, many illnesses and some congenital conditions are treatable with drugs. Some of these drugs can be expensive when you realize that your pet has to take them for a long time, perhaps even the rest of her life. For example,

When there is a bioequivalent generic, it is required that your veterinarian prescribe this, it costs less and keeps everyone’s pet insurance affordable. For example, Atopica and Cyclosporine are bioequivalent yet Cyclosporine can be 35% cheaper. Non-prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) items are not covered including:

Gum disease is unfortunately very common in dogs and cats with the number one problem being periodontal disease. Advanced dental disease is also known to cause bacterial deposits on the valves in the heart so keeping your pet’s teeth and gums clean and free of disease helps protect both the heart and other major organs. This extra coverage protects your pet against illnesses related to the teeth and gums. For example, it reimburses you for the treatment of:

Embrace will reimburse you for:

Embrace does not generally cover any of the following:

We strongly recommend that every pet parent add Continuing Care because it gives your pet the broadest protection available against long-term conditions. Continuing Care Coverage reimburses* you for treatment of an accident or illness that first showed up in a prior period of insurance. In other words, it protects your pet against chronic illnesses or problems that last more than 12 months, including allergies, diabetes, thyroid imbalances, and osteoarthritis, to name a few.

* The maximum reimbursement you can receive in any given year for chronic conditions is 25% of your policy maximum. For example, if you choose $10,000 as your annual maximum then your continuing care coverage provides up to $2,500 (25% x $10,000) of protection against any chronic conditions that your pet required treatment for.

Step 1: Get a Policy

Most pet insurance companies will issue a new policy to pets aged 8 weeks to up to 8 or even 10 years old, sometimes older if your pet undergoes a medical exam. Usually there is a waiting period and some pre-existing conditions may be excluded temporarily or permanently from your policy.

Step 2: The Waiting Period

The waiting period is the time between when you first sign up for cat or dog insurance and when your full coverage kicks in. For example, if you sign up and begin coverage on March 1st then your waiting period for accidents may be two or three days after, say March 3rd, and for illnesses as long as 4 weeks later, say March 31st. Most pet insurance companies have a waiting period of between 2 and 14 days for accidents and between 14 and 30 days for illnesses. The waiting period is there so that no one takes out insurance immediately after an accident or illness. The waiting period only applies in your first policy year, after that there is no waiting period on your pet insurance.

Step 3: Making a Claim

Once you’ve gone to the veterinarian, you pay the bill and fill out a claim form that your veterinarian signs. You fax or mail this form in to the pet insurance company along with your paid and itemized veterinary bill. Some pet parents wonder why the pet insurance company can’t reimburse the veterinarian directly like in human health insurance. The main reason is that pet insurance is a very, very small industry compared to human health insurance. The computer systems aren’t in place that would allow direct reimbursement to the veterinarian and these networks are incredibly expensive to build. However many companies, including Embrace, can and do make exceptions to this but these must be arranged between you, your veterinarian, and the pet insurance company on a case-by-case basis.

Step 4: You Receive Your Claim Check

Once you’ve sent in your claim form, it is assessed and you usually receive a check or direct deposit back into your account minus any deductible or co-pay that apply to your policy, until you reach your policy’s annual maximum. If you paid for additional coverages like routine care or prescription drugs then these will be reimbursed on your claim too according to your pet insurance plan’s limits.

Those that argue pet insurance should include routine care believe that it’s not about money, it’s about a hassle-free life. They don’t want to worry about what is or is not covered, they just want to send in their veterinary bills. They pay a regular premium and, in exchange, everything is covered. What’s not to like about that? Then there are those that argue pet insurance should not cover routine care. They understand that insurance is for the unexpected things in life. These pet parents don’t want pet insurance to pay for routine visits that are predictable because they know what insurance is for. Ultimately when pet insurance includes routine care it ends up costing you more, in the form of higher premiums, than if you had just paid yourself. Why? Because insurance companies have overhead when processing a claim. Just imagine how much more expensive car insurance would be if it included oil changes, tire rotations, and a checkup every 10,000 miles. The $300 to $400 that most of us pay for our car insurance every 6 months would probably double or triple. The same thing happens to pet insurance when it includes routine care. Embrace strongly supports routine care for your pet, just not routine care coverage for pet insurance.

Veterinary medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years and nowhere is this more obvious than with pet meds. As well as the usual medications designed specifically for cats and dogs, veterinarians are in many cases also able to prescribe human medications for your pet. Many, many illnesses and some congenital conditions are treatable with drugs. Some of these drugs can be expensive when you realize that your pet has to take them for a long time, perhaps even the rest of her life. For example,

When there is a bioequivalent generic, it is required that your veterinarian prescribe this, it costs less and keeps everyone’s pet insurance affordable. For example, Atopica and Cyclosporine are bioequivalent yet Cyclosporine can be 35% cheaper. Non-prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) items are not covered including:

Gum disease is unfortunately very common in dogs and cats with the number one problem being periodontal disease. Advanced dental disease is also known to cause bacterial deposits on the valves in the heart so keeping your pet’s teeth and gums clean and free of disease helps protect both the heart and other major organs. This extra coverage protects your pet against illnesses related to the teeth and gums. For example, it reimburses you for the treatment of:

Embrace will reimburse you for:

Embrace does not generally cover any of the following:

We strongly recommend that every pet parent add Continuing Care because it gives your pet the broadest protection available against long-term conditions. Continuing Care Coverage reimburses* you for treatment of an accident or illness that first showed up in a prior period of insurance. In other words, it protects your pet against chronic illnesses or problems that last more than 12 months, including allergies, diabetes, thyroid imbalances, and osteoarthritis, to name a few.

* The maximum reimbursement you can receive in any given year for chronic conditions is 25% of your policy maximum. For example, if you choose $10,000 as your annual maximum then your continuing care coverage provides up to $2,500 (25% x $10,000) of protection against any chronic conditions that your pet required treatment for.

Veterinary medicine has advanced rapidly in recent years and nowhere is this more obvious than with pet meds. As well as the usual medications designed specifically for cats and dogs, veterinarians are in many cases also able to prescribe human medications for your pet. Many, many illnesses and some congenital conditions are treatable with drugs. Some of these drugs can be expensive when you realize that your pet has to take them for a long time, perhaps even the rest of her life. For example,

When there is a bioequivalent generic, it is required that your veterinarian prescribe this, it costs less and keeps everyone’s pet insurance affordable. For example, Atopica and Cyclosporine are bioequivalent yet Cyclosporine can be 35% cheaper. Non-prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) items are not covered including:

Gum disease is unfortunately very common in dogs and cats with the number one problem being periodontal disease. Advanced dental disease is also known to cause bacterial deposits on the valves in the heart so keeping your pet’s teeth and gums clean and free of disease helps protect both the heart and other major organs. This extra coverage protects your pet against illnesses related to the teeth and gums. For example, it reimburses you for the treatment of:

Embrace will reimburse you for:

Embrace does not generally cover any of the following:

We strongly recommend that every pet parent add Continuing Care because it gives your pet the broadest protection available against long-term conditions. Continuing Care Coverage reimburses* you for treatment of an accident or illness that first showed up in a prior period of insurance. In other words, it protects your pet against chronic illnesses or problems that last more than 12 months, including allergies, diabetes, thyroid imbalances, and osteoarthritis, to name a few.

* The maximum reimbursement you can receive in any given year for chronic conditions is 25% of your policy maximum. For example, if you choose $10,000 as your annual maximum then your continuing care coverage provides up to $2,500 (25% x $10,000) of protection against any chronic conditions that your pet required treatment for.

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