Insurance Requirement for School Enrollment

To meet the requirements for enrollment, students are required to have insurance.

Insurance: Texas Education Code, Section 51.952 authorized a governing board to require health insurance on students enrolled in health institutions. A health insurance fee will be automatically assessed at the time of registration and if you do not have other health insurance coverage, you will be enrolled in the UT System Student Health Insurance by Blue Cross Blue Shield administered by Academic Health Plans (BCBS/AHP Student Insurance). If you already have health insurance coverage from another source, you will have the opportunity to OPT OUT of the Student Health Insurance through the Mystar program. Medical students and other students who register once a year will be assessed the fee yearly and have the option to OPT OUT yearly. Yearly students, who OPT OUT, will be required to provide proof of insurance again in January of each year. Students who register every semester, will have the fee assessed every semester, and have the option to OPT OUT every semester. If a student chooses to OPT OUT, but does not do so by the deadline that will be set each semester, they will be charged with the non-refundable fee and enrolled in the Student Health Insurance. This includes employees, who are covered by the UTMB employee health insurance, who are also students. More information will follow soon on the process to OPT OUT through MyStar.

See the informatin below on the time frame for opting-out.

2012-2013 Academic Year:  Medical students Years 2,3,4 and Clinical Year PA students

Coverage Dates: TBA.

2012-2013 Academic Year:  Medical students Year 1

Coverage Dates: TBA.

Fall 2012: SON, GSBS and SHP students

Coverage Dates: TBA

Open Date: TBA