Question About Student Health Insurance

tolstoy2
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:12:31 +0000

I’m curious about what most of you do as well- Tufts insurance if you already have it or not? My d was a freshman last year from San Diego and I waived the Tufts insurance as we have Aetna. But- they don’t take any other insurance at health services but their own. So…emergency occurs at 5:00am our time, she goes to health services, sees doctors, gets EKG, blood work up, urine tests and 2 bags of fluid. Great care, couldn’t have asked for better. They said they would have done other tests if she had Tufts insurance though. She turns out fine, but because she didn’t have pre-approval from her primary doc here, we get bill for above tests and pay for it. Good news is that it was only about $100.00 total. Anyway, wondering if I should pay for Tufts insurance this year in case other emergencies arise and she doesn’t get pre-approval beforehand. What do others do?