<p>Hi: I was wondering if someone may have an anwer for this, particularly FC. My daughter's Cost of Attendance statement lists some service fees, in particular the Health Center Fee. Is that a fee charged assuming that a student is not covered by their parents' health insurance coverage? If you are covered by their insurance plan do you not pay this? I can understand the other fees, such as the academic service and rec center fees.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Although I’m not certain exactly how this works at Tulane, at one time I worked at a Univ. Health Service. Through that U, the “insurance” was different than the health service. The health service fee covered most of the costs of care at the student health service. We had 4 full-time Dr’s, lab, dental, x-ray, 16-bed inpatient area and 24/7 care. Students could get stitches, antibiotics, in-patient care if they had the flu, etc, things like that. The health service fee was mandatory. </p>
<p>The insurance required over and above that is either coverage from parent’s health insurance or the extra student health insurance would be for things like an actual hospitalization, seeing a specialist, more extensive lab/x-ray services, etc. </p>
<p>I don’t know what the student health service at Tulane offers, but am presuming the set up as far as what is the mandatory fee covering versus what the required parent or student insurance is something like this.</p>
<p>My daughter’s school has a mandatory health fee that is nothing to do with health insurance. It is a fee for the health center at her school. It looks like it is the same thing at Tulane and it is mandatory, not optional.</p>
<p><a href=“http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/acctrec/faq.asp#13[/url]”>http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/acctrec/faq.asp#13</a></p>
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