Health Insurance

Students are required to have health insurance while attending The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.  By vote of the Corporation of the University, all registered students are automatically enrolled in the Student Health Insurance Plan. Participation in this Student Health Insurance Plan is required unless a waiver is completed and submitted each academic year by the Waiver deadline. The 2023-2024 student fee is $4,780 for current students and $5,166 for first-year students. The cost for the full year of the insurance coverage is charged to your student account in the fall semester, so students opting for the coverage will have higher billed charges in the fall than in the spring semester. Please visit Student Health Insurance Plan for detailed information about the University health insurance coverage plan, waiver, and yearly fee.  

In addition, students may opt to secure health insurance on their own, independent of the University and of their families through Health Insurance Marketplaces or Exchanges, as part of the Affordable Care Act. Available health care plans can be researched at the ACA website. Many states offer their own marketplace options as well, for example, HealthSource RI, offered to residents in Rhode Island. Enrollment in the health insurance plans occurs on a yearly basis for the marketplace and exchanges, generally opening in the fall and closing early in the New Year.