Partners · Hosting Visitors
The grandparents flying in for the graduation. The exchange student at the kitchen table. The choir from the partner church, the parents here for the wedding. Their health coverage from home usually ends at the US border, and when something goes wrong, it’s the hosting organization and the host family who field the worried, expensive questions. BonaVia is being built so the people who do the hosting have somewhere to point.
Why hosting organizations partner with BonaVia
A service to your guests. A service to the programs that host them.
Your guests’ need first: US healthcare is billed at rates no plan from home was built for: an uninsured ER visit typically runs $1,500 to $3,000 [Mira Health, 2025], and when it happens, the host family and the hosting organization are the ones holding the clipboard and fielding the calls.
Then the program’s need: America’s hosting infrastructure is largely volunteer: host families, congregations, international-student offices. The programs that do the hosting are perpetually underfunded. The sponsorship is designed to attach funding to the visits that are already happening.
One co-branded page in the graduation mailing, the host-family packet, the congregation announcement, instead of every family improvising with a search engine the week before the flight.
The hard conversation happens before the flight, not in the ER waiting room. The relationship your organization carries stays warm because the answer existed before the question got expensive.
BonaVia is the licensed producer. Your organization introduces the road and names the cause: licensing, disclosures, and paperwork stay ours.
Today, visitors start with the “Visiting the US” path in the quote flow; dedicated visitor-medical plans join the shelf as the roadmap lands. The sponsorship model is designed to work the same way as every other BonaVia road.
The bill, uninsured
What US care typically bills a visitor with no coverage that applies here:
Typical published figures [Mira Health, 2025; healthcare.gov-style guidance, 2025], not a quote of any plan’s benefits; uninsured billing runs at multiples of insurer-negotiated rates, by industry estimates.
The US welcomed 72.4 million international visitors in 2024 [NTTO / ITA, 2025], and America’s hosting infrastructure is largely volunteer: host families, congregations, alumni groups, international-student offices. Roughly 300,000 exchange visitors arrive each year on J-1 programs alone [U.S. State Dept, 2025], including an estimated tens of thousands of high-school students living with American host families.
What most visitors don’t know until it’s too late: US healthcare is billed at rates their home coverage was never built for. An uninsured ER visit typically runs $1,500 to $3,000 [Mira Health, 2025]; industry estimates put a hospital day near $3,000 before procedures; and a serious admission can reach $30,000 or more [healthcare.gov-style guidance, 2025]. Uninsured patients are billed full chargemaster rates, often multiples of what insurers pay for the same care, by industry estimates. The visitors most likely to need care, older parents and grandparents on long family stays, are the least likely to be covered.
Visitor-focused medical programs are on the BonaVia roadmap; today, visitors can start with the “Visiting the US” path in our quote flow. Plan availability and coverage specifics are pending.
A grandmother lands on Tuesday for a Saturday wedding; Thursday night it’s chest pains and an ambulance. The care is excellent. The bill, ER, imaging, observation, arrives in five figures, and her coverage from home doesn’t apply here. Visitor medical plans are designed to help with exactly this kind of unexpected illness or injury during a US stay.
An exchange student goes down at practice and the host family is suddenly the one holding the intake clipboard. Program-grade visitor coverage can help ensure the student is treated and the host family isn’t guessing about who pays.
Visiting parents settle in for a long stay to help with the new baby; one icy front step in February changes the math of the whole visit. Longer-stay visitor plans are designed for exactly these multi-month family visits.
The world already comes here
72.4M
international arrivals to the United States in 2024: hosted, overwhelmingly, by volunteers: families, congregations, student offices.
NTTO / International Trade Administration, 2025
$1,500–$3,000
the typical bill for a single uninsured ER visit, presented to a guest whose plan from home doesn’t apply here.
Mira Health, 2025
$30,000
what a serious multi-day hospital admission can reach: the long-standing healthcare.gov benchmark for a three-day stay.
healthcare.gov-style guidance, 2025
300,000
exchange visitors arriving each year on J-1 programs alone, most of them living with volunteer host families.
U.S. State Dept BridgeUSA, 2025
Program availability pending; figures are risk context, not a description of coverage.
I
Graduations, exchange programs, mission partners stateside, long family stays, and the program the sponsorship should feed. We respond within two business days.
II
The same co-branded page, your name, your cause, shared with the families and guests you host: graduation mailings, host-family packets, congregation announcements.
III
Today that starts with the “Visiting the US” path in the quote flow; dedicated visitor medical plans join the shelf as the roadmap lands.
IV
Designed to work the same way as every other road: we share up to 40% of what we collect with your organization as a sponsorship, in plain dollars.
You name the cause. Every covered trip funds it.
…or anything else your organization cares about: you tell us who. The organization already carries the relationship and the worry; the cause should get sponsored for it.
When the visit goes sideways
Talk to a partnership director
Fifteen minutes, and you’ll know exactly where this road stands: what your guests can use today, and what’s coming for the people you host.
Tell us about your organization and how your people travel. A partnership director reads every note and responds within two business days.