{"id":3867,"date":"2026-11-11T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:38:52","slug":"student-health-insurance-fee-waiver-process-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/student-health-insurance-fee-waiver-process-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Health Insurance Fee &amp; Waiver Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All OWU students are required to have comprehensive health insurance that provides access to healthcare in Central Ohio. A health insurance fee will be posted to all student accounts but can be waived if students have comparable coverage and submit a waiver request. The deadline for Spring semester waiver requests is January 22, 2027, and additional details can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/owu.myahpcare.com\/waiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/owu.myahpcare.com\/waiver&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1794507107684000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1OMWZvkTaWw6xG_lIOfJgG\">HERE<\/a>. Students should watch their OWU email for a waiver approval or for any requests for additional information. Students who do not waive the fee will have medical insurance coverage through United Healthcare, and benefits can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/owu.myahpcare.com\/benefits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/owu.myahpcare.com\/benefits&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1794507107684000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1u5h0xBr1KuQZTkxKuAmRD\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Waiver requests cannot be accepted after the deadline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong> Dean of Students Office<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> Doug Koyle at <a href=\"mailto:dmkoyle@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dmkoyle@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All OWU students are required to have comprehensive health insurance that provides access to healthcare in Central Ohio. A health insurance fee will be posted to all student accounts but can be waived if students have comparable coverage and submit a waiver request. The deadline for Spring semester waiver requests is January 22, 2027, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[536,106,339,52,340],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-becoming-a-bishop-checklist","tag-process","tag-bill","tag-health-insurance","tag-insurance","tag-waiver"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}