<p>A heads up in case you forgot, or didn't know, or whatever</p>
<p>check your students college and see about what medical forms, etc they need</p>
<p>we made our Ds appointment anyway a long time ago, and just now were informed about a form they said to use</p>
<p>Better get those forms out and look at them. My son's were due back at the univ. by July 13--as I discovered the morning of July 10.</p>
<p>Son needed four more inoculations, despite the fact that we are always up to date on these things.</p>
<p>I suggest also taking a look at your health insurance policy to see what is required in case your child needs care while at school. Our oldest d had a knee injury while playing her club sport. Though our HMO covered her ER visit, it would not cover follow-up care because we hadn't previously registered a primary care physician with an affiliated HMO. We knew she'd be covered as an 18 y/o enrolled in college, but hadn't realized the HMO could impose stringent restrictions out of our area. ("Well," the officious little twit sniffed when I called the HMO, "it is in your {214-page} contract." It was a frustrating and expensive mess.</p>
<p>When d2 went to school, we purchased the school's (excellent and affordable) coverage instead of dealing with the HMO.</p>
<p>I'll second frazzled1's suggestion about taking a close look at your coverage. After hours of phone calls last week--to my H's employer, to son's university, and to the insurer covering my H's workplace--we finally determined that my H's policy provided everything the school's optional coverage offered. However, that is only because our POS policy included the faculty of the medical school at my son's campus, and because the school provides automatic coverage at the school's student health center during daytime hours. I found the subject to be complicated and a pain to deal with. I was tempted to just pay for the optional coverage and be done with it, but then I was worried that our health insurer would keep asking, "do you have any other coverage" every time we made a claim.</p>
<p>Also, I was told by campus representatives that some insurers cut students off at 19, so we should double-check that with our insurer. (Ours covers up to age 23).</p>
<p>Make sure college laptops are on your homeowners with what you paid for it...our college doesn't cover theft of such things..you are expected to list these items on your homeowners.</p>
<p>My daughter's medical forms were due at her college in May, and she turned them in.</p>
<p>But now they are outdated. Medical things have happened since the forms were turned in. </p>
<p>Has anyone else faced this problem? What should incoming students do if their medical forms are outdated by the time they arrive on campus.</p>
<p>our form is due Aug 8th, so off to the Drs on monday to get it filled out</p>
<p>Midmo, my ds#1 (a junior and age 20) has to have a form filled out by his college registrar to say that he is enrolled full time each year in order for the health coverage to continue for another year under our insurance plan.</p>
<p>Marian, ask the school if they need an update, if there are new vaccinations your daughter has received. I do not remember having to send another medical form in for ds#1 after the first year. Perhaps, that's because all his vaccinations and such are up to date.</p>
<p>BandW, my daughter did e-mail the college health center with the new information (she received some additional non-required vaccinations) but has not heard from them. Perhaps this is a computer issue. We tried to pay the bursar bill from the same college this morning, and that site was down for maintenance. If something that important is down, the clinic is probably a low priority.</p>
<p>I was surprised that the chicken pox vaccine is now a 2 dose deal. For years, it was okay to have just one vaccination- at son's physical in June, I asked if it was current, and the doctor said the one he had as a child is enough. </p>
<p>But, college says he HAS to have the second one.....<br>
add it to the endless to-do list...</p>