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Welcome to the Student & Dependent Enrollment Center! Here you will find all the necessary tools to enroll in your school sponsored policy.

We suggest you review the certificate for your rates, effective dates and optional coverages before starting the enrollment process. The plan’s benefits can be found in the certificate within the Schedule of Benefits section with the exclusions towards the back.


2022-2023 Enrollment Information

View your school’s CERTIFICATE

Hard Waiver Student Eligibility

  • All graduate and undergraduate degree (including online-only and non-matriculating), visiting, mobility (study abroad), maintenance-of-status, Lang and Parsons consortium, ESL + Certificate program, and graduate credit certificate students are automatically charged for the health insurance plan upon registration, and will be enrolled in the plan if a waiver providing proof of comparable coverage is not submitted by the waiver deadline.

Eligible Dependents of enrolled students may participate in the plan on a voluntary basis.

Students must actively attend classes for at least the first 31 days after the date for which coverage is purchased. Home study, correspondence and online courses do not fulfill the Eligibility requirements that the student actively attend classes.

 

Begin the enrollment process by following the instructions below.


Hard Waiver Student Enrollment Instructions

Enrollment Deadlines:

  • Annual Enrollment Deadline:  9/12/22 – Closed
  • Spring/Summer Enrollment Deadline: 2/13/23 (new incoming students only)

 


(Full-Time Domestic Students Only)

 

If you have missed the hard waiver enrollment deadline, but have not previously waived out of the insurance, your insurance will be automatically activated after the waiver deadline.


Dependent Enrollment Instructions

Eligible students who do enroll may also insure their dependents. Please see the Certificate for Dependent eligibility.

For waiver, enrollment, eligibility, general benefit questions or plan issues please contact University Health Plans at 833-251-1129 or info@univhealthplans.com 


Open Enrollment Periods

If you are a student in the Fall Semester and eligible to purchase coverage and you choose not to enroll for coverage before the Annual Enrollment Deadline of *September 12, 2022, you, and your dependents, will not be eligible to enroll again until the start of the next Fall Semester unless you experience a “Qualifying Life Event” during the year.

*For new students in the Spring Semester, your open enrollment deadline is February 13, 2023.


Qualifying Life Event

Students who did not enroll themselves or their dependent(s) during the open enrollment period may be able to enroll in the policy if they experience a Qualifying Life Event.

Qualifying Life Events include:

  • Acquiring a new family member
  • Marriage/Civil Union
  • Divorce
  • Loss or change of Job
  • Expiration of Benefits


If you and/or your dependents meet the requirements for a Qualifying Life Event, you will need to provide the following:

  • Proof of qualifying life event/proof of involuntary loss of coverage
  • Enrollment Form
  • Payment


All documents and payment must be received within 30 days of the qualifying life event. After 30 days, the student or dependents will no longer be eligible to enroll in the plan, until fall of the following school year.

For waiver, enrollment, eligibility, general benefit questions or plan issues please contact University Health Plans at 833-251-1129 or info@univhealthplans.com.

 

To enroll, you must submit an enrollment form, letter from your prior insurance company documenting your loss of coverage and payment within 30 days of the qualifying event. If all three items are received by the deadline coverage will be effective as of the first day without coverage under your prior plan.


For waiver, enrollment, eligibility, general benefit questions or plan issues please contact University Health Plans at 833-251-1129 or info@univhealthplans.com.

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