NY Has University Students' Health Care Investigated
You are not the only parent concerned with the issue of health insurance for your college student. Andrew Cuomo, NY Attorney General, is scrutinizing the deals between universities and insurance providers.
The target is those universities requiring students to have a specific health plan to be able to attend that school. Especially the ones that are getting a kick back for using a specific company.
Although most students have health benefits through their parents, some university health care facilities will not accept the parent’s health plan. A New York Times article reports this.
Alternatively, they accept only the universities preferred coverage. President of College Parents of America, James A. Boyle states, “[Offending] campus health centers do not accept [their parents' coverage] as payment for service. Instead, some schools force the student, as a condition of enrollment, to purchase health insurance policies offered by the school.”
Cuomo has asked, formally, requested that some New York universities keep record of their dealings with insurance companies. .”With students and their families being financially squeezed at every turn, colleges must ensure that they are looking out for students’ best interest first and foremost as opposed to their own financial bottom line,” stated one of Cuomo’s special assistants.
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