Coverage for Full-Time Students

Every year, Dean Health Plan (DHP) mails out a questionnaire to determine the eligibility of dependents who are full-time students. This questionnaire helps us determine whether they qualify as dependents as defined in the Member Certificate. These questionnaires are mailed to members whose policy limits coverage of dependents older than age 19 to full-time students. For your dependent to qualify for insurance as a fulltime student, he or she must meet the following criteria:

• Be a qualified dependent (biological child, adopted child, stepchild or legal ward)
• Be registered full-time at an accredited post–high school academic, professional or trade school; generally requires 12 or more credits per semester
• Provide less than 50 percent of his or her own financial support
• Be unmarried
• Not be on active duty in the armed forces

If you receive a questionnaire, fill it out and return it so that our records are up-to-date. If we do not receive the questionnaire, we will assume that your dependent no longer qualifies, and his or her coverage will end.

If your dependent attends school out of our service area, your policy may have a special provision for out-of-area coverage.

For information on your benefits

or full-time student age requirements, review your benefit materials at www.deancare.com or call our Customer Service Department at 608-828-1301 or toll-free 800-279-1301.

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