Massachusetts Community Colleges
Springfield Technical Community College
STUDENT ACCIDENT & SICKNESS INSURANCE PROGRAM
2010-2011 Academic Year
Dear Student or Parent:
Academic year 2010-2011 will be the twenty second year of implementation of the Massachusetts Mandatory Health Insurance Law. Under this law, each Massachusetts Community College must require all students carrying nine credits or more in the Day or DCE Divisions to participate in the student health insurance program or in a health insurance program with comparable coverage.
Students of the Massachusetts Community Colleges will be insured for policy year 2010-11 by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’s Blue Care Elect Preferred (PPO) Insurance Plan. A description of the plan can be downloaded at www.universityhealthplan.com by clicking on the Massachusetts Community Colleges. If you have comparable coverage you may wish to waive participation in the Massachusetts Community College Insurance Plan. Students who wish to waive coverage must complete the waiver process below:
- Log onto www.universityhealthplans.com
- Click on “Massachusetts Community Colleges”
- Select your campus
- Select the option “Student Accident & Sickness Insurance Plan”
- Click on the waiver form.
- Fill in all the required information. If any information is missing, your waiver will NOT be accepted.
- Submit the Waiver form.
The premium charge for the Massachusetts Community College Health Insurance Plan will appear on your bill. All On-Line Waivers must be completed at registration time, by the due date of the bill, or prior to the opening of college, otherwise the charge will remain on your bill and payment will be required.
The annual premium appearing on your bill is $866 for coverage from September 1, 2010 through August 31, 2011. Should you become a full time student for the Spring semester the premium appearing on your bill is $635 for the period of January 1, 2011 through August 31, 2011.
International Students – "Coverage by insurance carriers outside the U.S. and coverage by foreign National Health Service programs are deemed not to be comparable to coverage under a qualifying student health insurance program. Students with foreign health coverage, other than students who are enrolled in a program requiring health insurance, and students whose coverage is embassy-sponsored that provides comparable coverage, must participate in the Qualifying Student Health Insurance Program."114.6 CMR 3.04 (3) (c).
Students will receive an ID card after the enrollment information is sent by the College to University Health Plans.
Delta Dental – A voluntary dental insurance program insured by Delta Dental is also available. To access additional information and to enroll in the dental plan log onto www.universityhealthplans.com click on Massachusetts Community Colleges then your campus and select the dental option.
Sincerely,
Student Insurance Committee
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