When a weak area of the abdominal aorta expands or bulges
What is an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm or AAA?
100
A measurement that is useful to your physician in evaluating the adequacy of the circulation in your legs
What is an Ankle-Brachial Index or ABI?
100
An operation during which your vascular surgeon removes the inner lining of your carotid artery if it has become thickened or damaged. This procedure eliminates a substance called plaque from your artery and can restore blood flow.
What is a Carotid Endarterectomy?
100
A tiny flexible tube inserted in a blood vessel to inject dye, assist with the removal of a blood clot, or inject medication
What is a Catheter?
100
Amount of loss that the insured pays before the insurance kicks in.
What is the Deductible?
200
This occurs when the major arteries in your neck become narrowed or blocked.
What is Carotid Artery Disease?
200
A study that shows how blood is flowing through your vessels and measures the speed of the flow of blood. It can also be useful to estimate the diameter of a blood vessel as well as the amount of obstruction, if any, in the blood vessel.
What is a Duplex Ultrasound?
200
An entranceway into your bloodstream that lies completely beneath your skin and is easy to use. The access is usually in your arm, but sometimes in the leg.
What is a Dialysis Access?
200
Swelling or fluid collection in the tissues.
What is Edema?
200
A percentage of each claim above the deductible paid by the policyholder.
What is the Co-Insurance?
300
A blood clot that occurs in your pelvis, thigh, or calf, but it can also occur less commonly in your arm, chest, or other locations.
What is Deep Vein Thrombosis or DVT?
300
Your physician may order this to help diagnose a narrowing or obstruction of the arteries, an aneurysm, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or another vascular condition.
What is a Computerized Tomographic Angiography or CTA?
300
A procedure where a vascular surgeon inflates a small balloon inside a narrowed blood vessel. The balloon helps to widen your blood vessel and improve blood flow.
What is Angioplasty?
300
A very small varicose vein. These are usually considered “cosmetic veins”.
What is a Spider Vein?
300
A predetermined amount of money that an individual must pay before insurance will pay 100% for an individual's health-care expenses
What is the Out-Of-Pocket Limit?
400
Swollen veins that you can see through your skin
What are Varicose Veins?
400
A type of vascular study done to assess the blood flow of the arteries that supply blood from the heart through the neck to the brain.
What is a Carotid Artery Duplex Scan?
400
A tube composed of fabric supported by a metal mesh called a stent. It can be used for a variety of conditions involving the blood vessels, but most commonly is used to reinforce a weak spot in an artery called an aneurysm.
What is an Endovascular Stent Graft?
400
A graft placed inside the blood vessel to treat aneurysms.
What is an Endograft?
400
A person or persons relying on the policy holder for support may include the spouse and/or unmarried children (whether natural, adopted or step) of an insured
What is a Dependent?
500
When your leg veins cannot pump enough blood back to your heart.
What is Venous Insufficiency?
500
A test that uses x-rays to view your body's blood vessels.
The physician punctures your artery with a hollow needle, advances a thin wire through the needle, threads a catheter over the wire, and guides it to the desired location. The physician uses x-rays that are projected on a video screen, a process called fluoroscopy, to see the catheter as it moves through your arteries
What is an Angiogram?
500
Treatment of your narrowed arteries by directly creating a detour, or bypass, around a section of the artery that is blocked
What is a Surgical Bypass?
500
Redness, warmth, tenderness, foul smelling drainage, or elevated temperature
What are signs of infection?
500
The insurance company’s written explanation regarding a claim, showing what they paid and what the client must pay. The document is sometimes accompanied by a benefits check