The fee for participation in the Student Health Services Plan is $90/semester or summer session; $270 for a full year(includes summer session).
This fee allows for unlimited visits to Student Health Services Clinic for preventive and acute primary care, injury care, minor office surgery, women's health, mental health and nurse only visits (immunizations, etc.) with NO co-payments.
Mandated students (graduate students in the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, Optometry, Nursing, and Health Related Professions, professional students, and all international students) are also required to have major medical insurance (BC/BS, VIVA, etc.)-- to cover hospital, emergency room, specialty care referrals, and lab/x-ray costs which are not included in the basic Student Health Services Plan.
VIVA Student PlanUAB offers a student insurance plan, VIVA, that provides insurance to supplement the Student Health Services Plan for those students not already with another major medical plan. Current fees for the VIVA insurance program can be obtained from either the VIVA member services at (205) 558-7474 or (800) 294-7780 or on the VIVA Web site. {See vivahealth.com}