When you receive healthcare outside of MIT Health, you will always need to use your health insurance coverage — either SHIP [LINK] or other insurance, like your parents’ insurance plan — and/or pay out of pocket. Such services would include:
- Prescription and over-the-counter medications
- Emergency room care
- Overnight hospitalization
- Medical transportation (for example, ambulance transport)
- Visits to outside urgent care centers, such as a CVS Minute Clinic
- Treatment by clinicians and specialists outside MIT Health
- Mental health or counseling services with clinicians outside MIT Health
- Radiology procedures performed outside MIT Health
Learn more about using SHIP outside of MIT Health.