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The Ashe Center Insurance Office is available to provide support to students experiencing difficulties with the waiver process. Please submit a Waiver Contact Form or call for assistance. Note: During a designated waiver period, response times can take two (2) to three (3) business days.
Waiving Coverage. To waive UC SHIP coverage, you must have other health insurance coverage that meets the university’s health insurance requirements, described in the waiver criteria below. You must submit a waiver application prior to the start of each new academic year to waive coverage that year.
Waiving SHIP Students that have comparable local health insurance are eligible to waive UCSHIP. If you are interested in waiving UCSHIP, be sure to first look at the Ashe Center Waiving UCSHIP information for step-by-step instructions.
UC SHIP also known as University of California Student Insurance Program is a comprehensive major medical insurance plan that offers medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and mental health and substance use disorder benefits for UC undergraduate and graduate students and their eligible dependents.
UCSHIP has incredible coverage of psychiatric care in particular—therapy and psychiatry are entirely free in-network. Meds are also covered really well. One of my meds would cost $2.6k per month normally without insurance but ends up being $40. I would recommend against just immediately waiving it.
BruinCare is a program that gives students who have waived UCSHIP prepaid access to certain services at The Ashe Center. By purchasing BruinCare during the waiver process, you eliminate the $25 visit fee, and more.
All registered students are automatically enrolled in UC SHIP, but if you have comparable insurance and you do not want to keep UC SHIP as dual coverage, you must submit a request to waive enrollment by the specified deadline .
