New Student Requirements

All incoming domestic undergraduate students, and all incoming domestic Clinical Health Professional graduate students are required to submit health records. Forms must be submitted to the Health Portal by August 1st for fall semester and December 1st for spring semester. Students that do not submit their forms will be placed on a health hold and unable to register for classes.

There are three components that must be completed: 

1) Physical Examination Form.

2) SJU Health Evaluation Form 

3) Immunization Record

Medical supplies to bring to campus: Essential items every student should bring to campus.

All international students are required to submit the Tuberculosis-TB-Screening-Questionnaire, found on the Health Portal.

All incoming undergraduate students and all incoming Clinical Health Professional graduate students are required to submit the following forms, which can be found on the Health Portal.

1) Physical Examination Form, to be printed and brought to your appointment for your Healthcare Provider to complete. This form must be uploaded via the Document Upload function.

2) SJU Health Evaluation form 

3) Immunization Record 

Medical supplies to bring to campus: Essential items every student should bring to campus.

 Insurance waiver 

Good health is essential to academic success. Unexpected medical bills can threaten your ability to complete your education should you be uninsured or have inadequate coverage. In an effort to ensure students’ physical and financial health, eligible students are required to purchase the University-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) each academic year. 

Saint Joseph’s University requires that all degree seeking enrolled students registered for six or more credit hours, all degree seeking enrolled international students registered for one or more credit hours, and all degree seeking Ph.D. or Ed.D. students registered for one or more credit hours, to carry personal health insurance. At least 50% of eligible students' credit hours must be on ground/in person. This is to protect students from interruptions to their academic progress due to unexpected medical bills and to ensure students have adequate insurance coverage while at college for basic medical care.

Saint Joseph’s University (SJU) has contracted with United Healthcare Student Resources (UHCSR) to provide health insurance. Now that the Waiver/Enrollment site is open, students will be receiving ongoing emails from UHCSR and SJU to their SJU email account with information about the Enrollment and Waiver process. It is important that you either enroll or complete the Waiver Process before the September 29, 2023 deadline. 

If you are insured and have adequate health insurance coverage under another plan, you must complete and submit an Insurance Waiver Form online.  The Waiver site closes September 29, 2023.  You are required to submit a waiver each academic year, as it is only valid for one year.  The annual premium fee for the SHIP is $2,850.00 for the 2023-24 academic year.

WAIVER/ENROLLMENT PROCESS:

In order to complete the waiver or the enrollment process, please go to https://studentcenter.uhcsr.com/sju, and click on either the “Enroll Now - Health Insurance” link or the “Waive Your School’s Insurance” link.

WAIVER INFORMATION:

Submission of a waiver form is not an automatic approval for an insurance waiver. Please check your SJU  email on the 5th business day after submitting your waiver form to learn if your waiver request has been approved or declined. 

If you have been requested to submit additional insurance information, please submit the information within five business days. Failure to submit additional information requested before 9/29/2023 will result in automatic enrollment into the university sponsored student health insurance plan (SHIP). Verification that your personal insurance plan has been approved will be provided to you via your SJU email.  If you do not receive either an insurance waiver approval email or an email requesting additional information within that time frame, check your spam folder.  Only receipt of an insurance waiver approval email from UHCSR is verification that your personal health insurance has been approved. 

**You will not receive a copy of your waiver submission, so we recommend printing the Waiver form or taking a screenshot of this form for your records before submitting it.

DECLINED WAIVER INFORMATION

If you receive a declined waiver, this could be for many reasons.  The most common reasons a waiver would be declined include: coverage is not active or coverage is not comparable to the school sponsored plan.  

Please note that it is the student's responsibility to follow up on their waiver status and to ensure that all information is received by the waiver deadline. If you do not submit the additional information or you do not receive an approved waiver, you will be enrolled in the SJU sponsored SHIP through UHCSR and charged the $2,850 annual premium.  

Students may resubmit their waiver request if they were initially declined and will receive an email from UHCSR regarding that process. Students in the OT, PT, PA, & Pharmacy professional programs or a representative of the students who have questions about their waiver may contact UHCSR at: wverification@uhcsr.com. Students in all other programs may resubmit the waiver if they were initially declined or may contact UHCSR Customer Service: customerservice@uhcsr.com.

 

ENROLLMENT INFORMATION

*For SJU students who were enrolled in the University sponsored SHIP for policy year 2022-2023, and will be renewing their SHIP coverage again for policy year 2023-2024, the Annual Effective Dates will be 8/15/23-8/16/24.  

*Eligible students who enroll into the SHIP may also insure their dependents.

*There are strict deadlines that apply to the waiver process; you must complete the waiver/enrollment by September 29, 2023. After that date, if you have not taken action or still have a declined waiver, you will be automatically enrolled in the SJU sponsored Injury and sickness plan and the annual premium fee of $2,850 charged to your account is non-refundable.
 

Additional/Important Points to Remember:

• Open Enrollment Period: When the Open Enrollment period closes, no further enrollments are allowed until the following school year unless you experience a Qualifying Life Event (QLE). The Spring/Summer 2024 Open Enrollment period only applies to newly eligible students starting in the Spring 2024 semester.
• If you lose coverage during the academic year, you are required to contact United Healthcare Student Resources at customerservice@uhcsr.com or call 800-505-4160 to enroll in their student health insurance plan or to provide proof of enrollment in a US based, ACA compliant, comparable health insurance plan within 30 days of loss of coverage.
• If you are enrolled in the SHIP for the 2023-2024 coverage period and planning to graduate from SJU in December 2023, you may contact CustomerService@uhcsr.com to request your coverage period to end on 12/31/2023 instead of 8/16/2024.
• In the event you experience login issues such as the username or date of birth you're using to login doesn't match the username or date of birth recorded in the University system contact customerservice@uhcsr.com.

For more information on the SJU sponsored student health insurance plan via United HealthCare Student Resources, please visit https://studentcenter.uhcsr.com/sju.