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Access your ID now by visiting MyAccount. From your MyAccount, you can print and download your ID card.
In keeping with our Go Green initiative, permanent ID cards will be available by request only. Should you wish to obtain a permanent ID card, you can request one to be shipped to you by accessing your MyAccount. Permanent ID cards will be shipped 24 – 48 hours of your request.
Use MyAccount Mobile to access your ID card from your mobile device.
It would be our pleasure to assist you with any ID Card need you may have. Please feel free to visit our Customer Service center with any other questions regarding your ID card.
Health Advocate is an added bonus when you enroll in a UnitedHealthcare student medical plan. Your Health Advocate benefit, provided by Allegheny College includes three important features: Healthcare Help, MedChoice Support, and Medical Bill Saver. This all-in-1 benefit is designed to help you and your enrolled dependents personally navigate the healthcare maze, make better decisions about your medical care and lower your medical bills.
What is Health Care Help?
You have unlimited access to a Personal Health Advocate (PHA), typically a registered nurse, supported by medical directors and billing and claims specialists. The PHA Can help you resolve a full range of clinical and insurance-related issues quickly and dependably, saving you time, money, and worry.
How Does it Work?
If you have a healthcare or insurance-related issue, call our toll-free number. You’ll be assigned a PHA who can help you with issues from finding qualified providers and services, to clarifying health coverage, addressing claims and billing concerns, to offering cost estimates for common medical procedures.
Reasons to Call
What is MedChoice Support?
MedChoice Support is an interactive, online tool that helps you weigh the pros and cons of procedures, treatments and medications, including the risks and potential outcomes to help you make the right decisions about your care.
How can it Help?
To access MedChoice Support, please click here.
What is Medical Bill Saver?
The Medical Bill Saver feature provides skilled negotiators who will work with your providers to lower your out-of-pocket costs on your medical or dental bills over $400 not covered by your insurance. We can attempt to negotiate bills to help reduce the balances that apply to deductibles and coinsurance.
How can it Help?
All Three Features are available to students and their dependents who are enrolled in the UnitedHealthcare student medical plan. If you have a question about who is covered for service, simply call us.
Help is Only a Phone Call Away!
Phone Number: 1-866-799-2670
Email: answers@HealthAdvocate.com
Web: HealthAdvocate.com/members
Health Advocate can be accessed 24/7
Welcome to the Find a Doctor, Hospital, or Lab Center! Whether you’re looking for a doctor, hospital, laboratory, or even medical equipment and supplies, we have the information you need, all located right here.
Preferred Providers are the physicians, hospitals and other health care providers who have contracted to provide specific medical care at negotiated prices. You should always confirm the Preferred Provider is part of the network, as this can change without notice by calling the Company at 800-505-4160 and/or by asking the provider.
The Preferred Provider for your plan is UnitedHealthcare Choice Plus PPO. If care is received from a Preferred Provider, any Covered Medical Expenses will be paid at the Preferred Provider level of benefits. Reduced or lower benefits will be provided when an Out-of-Network provider is used. By using a Preferred Provider you can also save yourself some out of pocket expenses. Use this link to search for participating physicians, hospitals, facilities, medical equipment, or supplies in your local area.
We recognize the increased need for appropriate mental health treatment for college students. We’ve partnered with United Behavioral Health (UBH) to ensure that you have access to UBH’s network of mental health care providers and facilities. UBH partners with more than 80,000 clinicians and more than 3,500 care facilities nationwide. Clinical excellence, innovation and a relentless commitment to the most scientifically advanced health care solutions that distinguish UBH as the national leader in behavioral health. To find a local Behavioral Health provider in your area, please click the link below:
Welcome to the File an Appeal Center! We are here to help you correctly submit your appeal, and ensure a faster turn-around time to have your claim reprocessed or reimbursement check mailed.
To file an appeal, please include the following information:
Once we receive the documentation, your appeal will be reviewed and a written response will be mailed to you. The response will include what the findings were, if the appeal was approved or denied, and the reason for the final decision.
If you have a question about your claim denial, you may call our Customer Service Department at telephone number 1-800-505-4160 for further explanation to informally resolve your appeal. If you are not satisfied with our explanation of why the claim was denied, you, or your authorized representative, may request an internal review of the claim denial. (for more information about an authorized representative, please click on “forms” on the left).
Welcome to the File a Medical Claim Center! We understand the hassles that come along with filing your claims, which is why we want to make this process as quick and painless for you as possible. Below you will find all the information you will need to file a medical claim.
It’s easy! Just download the claim form below. Fill out the first page with your personal information, dates of injury or sickness, the cause of the injury or date of first symptoms for a sickness, sign your name with today’s date, and attach all receipts. Please fill out the entire first page and be sure not to leave anything blank.
Your doctor will need to fill out the second page of the form.
Mail Claim Forms to:
FIRSTSTUDENT
P.O. Box 809025
Dallas, TX 75380-9025
Your Doctor can also submit a claim electronically, using Emedeon (formerly WebMD). This gives a faster turn-around time than submitting a claim by mail. Check with your doctor to see if they are a participant. If they are, show them your ID Card. The Emedeon information is printed on the back of every ID Card.
If you have any problems filling-out these forms or would like to talk to a customer service representative, you can call us toll free at: 1-800-505-4160 or
If you are a student and would like to check on the status of a claim that you or a provider submitted to UnitedHealthcare, you will need to set up a My Account if you have not already done so.
Please visit our My Account center to log in to an existing account or to create a new one.
Welcome to the NurseLine / Student Assistance Center! Your comprehensive NurseLine / Student Assistance benefit supports you and your eligible dependents with a wide range of issues—all at no cost to you. Our experts can offer trusted advice 24/7 and assist with balancing school and personal responsibilities. We look forward to serving you!
Health questions and issues can come up anytime. With NurseLine, you and your family have unlimited access to a Registered Nurse day or night. You can rest easy, knowing there’s somewhere to turn for trusted advice when you need it most.
A Registered Nurse can help guide you to the right care at the right time, self-care measures to ease symptoms and treat non-urgent conditions, and dependable information about diseases and medications. NurseLine can help you take charge of your health.
NurseLine is the perfect resource for when you can’t reach your doctor and need immediate answers to your health questions. Call anytime 24/7.
Our experienced nurses are available 24/7 to:
College life is exciting but it can also be stressful if you are balancing class with personal responsibilities. In addition, you may be facing more serious issues like family matters, depression or substance abuse that you can’t handle by yourself. Don’t let problems keep you from enjoying college and preparing for the future. Get the help you need today!
Health Advocate will provide you with the right tools to help you through some of life’s toughest challenges. Students can call Health Advocate’s toll-free number for confidential, short-term professional assistance, focusing on coping skills for a full range of emotional, family and other personal issues.
A Licensed Professional Counselor will…
REMEMBER: Call 911 or go to the ER in an emergency.
ENROLL NOW HEALTH INSURANCE
Welcome to the Student / Dependent Enrollment Center! We are here to help make enrolling as easy and as painless as possible.
We suggest you review your brochure and rates before starting the enrollment process. The plan’s benefits can be found in the brochure within the Schedule of Benefits section with the exclusions towards the back.
View your Student Tools Brochure
PLEASE NOTE: If you do not enroll for the year during the annual open enrollment period, you will not be able to enroll later during the 2015-2016 school year without experiencing a “Qualifying Life Event”. This means that the loss of coverage is no fault of your own or the policyholders (i.e. you get married or become too old to be on a family plan). You will be eligible to enroll within thirty days of this “Qualifying Life Event.” After thirty days, you will no longer be eligible.
HARD WAIVER INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT INSTRUCTIONS
If you are a…
As an international student you are automatically enrolled in this insurance Plan at registration, unless proof of comparable coverage is furnished.
ENROLL NOW IN COVERAGE ON-LINE
(Hard waiver international students only)
If you have missed the hard waiver enrollment deadline, but have not previously waived out of the insurance, you will be automatically enrolled in the insurance by your school.
If you have previously waived out of the insurance but your non-school sponsored coverage is being terminated due to a Qualifying Life Event and you are now looking to enroll in the Student Injury & Sickness plan, please:
DEPENDENTS OF HARD WAIVER INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ENROLLMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Hard Waiver Students who do enroll may also insure their eligible dependents
If your dependents non-school sponsored coverage is being terminated due to a Qualifying Life Event and you are now looking to enroll in the Student Injury & Sickness plan or if you have any questions about the enrollment process, please:
VOLUNTARY DOMESTIC STUDENTS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS ENROLLMENT INSTRUCTIONS
If you are a…
an undergraduate taking 3 or more credit hours, a graduate taking 1 or more credit hours or enrolled in a departmental 601, 610 or 611 course, a non-graduate assistant/graduate fellow student, a Hershey Medical student, a graduate assistant or graduate fellow, visiting scholar, student enrolled in the intensive English communication program or student who participates in the Co-op work experience program as part of your required academic program. you are eligible to enroll online or with an enrollment form. Voluntary Students who do enroll may also insure their eligible dependents. Please see instructions below to enroll.
The effectIve date of your coverage will be the period start date for the coverage period you enrolled.
If you or your Dependents non-school sponsored coverage is being terminated due to a Qualifying Life Event and you are now looking to enroll in the Student Injury & Sickness plan or If you have any questions about the enrollment process, please:
CONTACT US
We are always happy to help in anyway.
PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to the My Account center! My Account is a secure website that will provide you with personalized benefits and health information.
With My Account, you’ll have 24/7 internet access to:
| Log into MyAccount:Existing MyAccount users log in here | Create your MyAccount:You will be able to create your MyAccount 24-48 hours after your initial purchase of coverage.Be sure to use the email address you used to purchase coverage. | Forgot Username/Password:If you have forgotten your username or password, we’re happy to remind you. Follow the link and enter the information request. If a match is found, you will be emailed the information to the email address you provided when setting up your account. |
| Now Announcing…MyAccount Mobile Site!UnitedHealthcare Student Resources and First Student are proud to announce you can now launch our MyAccount site from our mobile version! The new site puts students’ critical student insurance coverage information in the palm of their hands. On the run, no problem. You can now check the status of a claim, locate a provider or pharmacy nearby and even access your I.D. card at your convenience.The mobile site can be accessed on the iPhone 3 and 4, HTC, Samsung and Motorola Droid phones and the Blackberry v6.0. Supported browsers are Firefox, Chrome and Opera Mini. Of course, users of non-supported mobile devices and browsers can access the full MyAccount site at www.firststudent.com.
Like the full MyAccount site, the data exchanged on the mobile site is fully secured with a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate. SSL uses a complex system of key exchanges between your browser and the UnitedHealthcare StudentResources browser in order to encrypt data that is exchanged between the two before it is transmitted across the web.
*Note: Students must have a set up my account to be able to access mobile site. |
