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For all students, good health is essential to achieving educational goals. Because maintaining good health requires access to health care when you need it, Georgetown University requires the students described below to have health insurance.
- Students registered in thesis research or students registered for nine or more credit hours in a degree program (eight or more credit hours if a law or graduate student) are eligible and required to enroll in the most comprehensive student injury and sickness plan offered through the University, unless their other insurance coverage meets specific University requirements.
A charge for this Premier Plan is placed on eligible students' accounts, per their registration status referenced above, once per Academic Year. Upon being charged for the Premier Plan, students can elect or waive the Plan during Open Enrollment, as appropriate. Only a few student's initial eligibility occurs in the Spring Semester. The Open Enrollment Periods are:
- Fall Open Enrollment:
- July 1, through September 15.
- Term of Coverage: 8/15/09 through 8/14/10
- Spring Open Enrollment:
- December 1, through January 31.
- Term of Coverage: 1/1/10 through 8/14/10
- Students temporarily pursuing educational activities outside the United States, who are enrolled as a student at Georgetown University and whose educational activity is sponsored through an academic dean, are required to have overseas health coverage and most are required to enroll in the study abroad student injury and sickness insurance plan offered through the University. A charge for the Study Abroad Plan is placed on the tuition bill of those students who are required and eligible to enroll in the Study Abroad Plan.
- International students enrolled in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at Georgetown University are required to enroll in a student injury and sickness plan offered through the University, unless their other insurance coverage meets specific University requirements. A charge for this EFL Plan is placed on these students' accounts.
The GU Student Health Insurance Office responsibilities include:
- Negotiation of the student health plans with insurance agents;
- Administration of the enrollment of student health insurance plans and overall Plan management; and,
- Facilitation of claims concerns with the insurance company, if students are not satisfied that they have received the benefits to which they are entitled, after they have appealed their claim.
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