Student Health Insurance

The purpose of the health Insurance requirement is to ensure students have quality heath insurance coverage, which includes emergency care, specialty care, and pharmacy services. Students should note many of the facilities where students receive clinical training require each student to be covered by health insurance. Hospital or clinic personnel may ask for proof of coverage at any time. Students may be denied access to clinical experience, at the discretion of the facility, if not covered by health insurance. Student Health Insurance Plans provide value for students due to robust and broad coverage, often at half the cost of comparable employee plans.

Students will automatically be enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) unless the student submits a request for a waiver and it is approved. Please remember this process takes place every fall and spring. Students starting their program in the summer will also need to follow this process their first summer only. All communication about the insurance requirement and the Student Health Insurance Plan is sent directly to the student's campus email. 

You will have access to your insurance benefits and digital card by going to the AHP website. Here are the insurance coverage schedules:

• Fall - August 1 - December 31 - New Students except Nursing
• Fall - September 1 - December 31 - All Returning Students and Nursing
• Spring - January 1 - August 31 - All Students
• Summer - May 1 - August 31 - Only New Students

To enroll a spouse or dependent in the Student Health Insurance Plan:

1. Make sure you have paid the SHIP fee on your tuition and fee account.
2. Go to https://ttuhsc.myahpcare.com/enrollment.
3. Select your school and then click on the “Click Here to Enroll” button.
4. If you have not created an account, click Register to establish a username and password.  Otherwise, sign in with your existing username and password.
5. Continue to fill out the form until complete. 

 

Summer 2023 Spouse/Dependent Enrollment Deadline - June 17, 2023
Please know that the insurance coverage is from May 1 - August 31, 2023 for all new students in the summer. Once you have paid for your fee you should be able to enroll your spouse or dependent.

If you have a qualifying life event during one of the times above you can enroll in the insurance within 30 days of that event. Example: new spouse or baby.

The Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) will be billed to the student's tuition and fee account in the fall and spring. Students that start their program in the summer will be billed for summer, fall, and spring with only being billed the first summer.  Students that do not have a qualified external insurance will need to pay the SHIP fee following the deadlines set through Student Business Services (SBS) to avoid fines or penalties.

Students that do not pay the fee by the institutional deadline and do not have an approved waiver through AHP, will have a hold placed on their account and will not be able to register for the next semester or receive their diploma if graduating. The account balance has to be paid to remove the hold.

Students who do not wish to have the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) must file an online request for a waiver with AHP in the fall or spring semester depending on when they start. If a student's waiver is approved in the fall semester the waiver will cover them for the rest of the academic year unless the insurance is no longer active. It is the student's responsibility to work with the Office of Student Life if their insurance changes any time during the year. The request to be waived must be submitted online through the AHP website by the designated deadline.  Providing insurance information at the University Health Center does not substitute for the waiver requirement.  If no request to waive is received and approved then the student will be required to pay the student health insurance fee billed to their tuition and fee account.

For a waiver to be approved, the level of benefits provided to the student through a health insurance plan must be Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliant. Cost sharing, short term, and travel plans do not meet the health insurance coverage requirement. Essential Health Benefits ensure students have access to local providers and a range of services in the state of Texas. Services must include, but are not limited to, hospitalization, ambulatory services, emergency services, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescription drugs, lab tests, preventative services, pediatric services, and rehabilitative and "habilitative" services. 

NOTE: The Office of Student Life does not evaluate students' private insurance, Academic Health Plans (AHP) does. Please do not submit your insurance information to the Office of Student Life. Students must submit their private insurance information online through the AHP waiver system.

To submit a waiver request:

1. Go to ttuhsc.myahpcare.com/waiver.
2. Review the waiver criteria.
3. Click on the blue button at the bottom of the page that says ‘Click Here to Waive the Student Health Insurance Plan’.
4. On the login page, students will enter their TTUHSC student ID in R1234567 format as their username and their date of birth in MMDDYYYY format as the initial password unless previously changed. Students are then taken to the student dashboard screen.
5. Fill out alternative health insurance information and submit. It can take 5-7 days for the waiver to be processed.  

F-1 Non-immigrant students: When submitting a waiver request, students might be required to pay an extra fee to enroll in a supplemental coverage for evacuation and repatriation if their insurance does not cover these items.

Summer 2023 Waiver Submission Deadline - June 17, 2023
Please know that even though the deadline to submit a waiver is June 17 you have been charged the fee for the student health insurance plan and will be expected to pay the fee by the Institutional set deadlines to avoid fines and penalties if you do not have an approved waiver for the Summer semester.