Using your health insurance outside of MIT Health

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.