• Kaiser Enrollment Application (PDF 71KB)
• Health Insurance Waiver form (PDF)
• Same sex domestic partner affidavit (PDF 29KB)
• Termination of domestic partnership affidavit (PDF 15KB)
• Welcome to Kaiser (brochure) (PDF 464KB)
• Summary of Benefits (PDF 67KB)

 
The Graduate Theological Union and participating member schools and institutions sponsor a medical insurance plan designed to provide students with complete medical coverage at a very reasonable cost. The plan is with Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest health plans in California, with over 8,000 physicians at more than 150 locations in northern and southern California to serve you. The HIPS plan has no deductibles, a $20 co-payment for office visits, and includes preventative care as well as many other covered services.

This health insurance plan is available to students enrolled for at least six or more credits or units per semester at one of the following institutions:

• American Baptist Seminary of the West
  

• Church Divinity School of the Pacific
  
• Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
• Franciscan School of Theology
• Graduate Theological Union
• Institute of Buddhist Studies
• Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
• Pacific School of Religion
• San Francisco Theological Seminary
• Starr King School for the Ministry
• School of Applied Theology

If you are enrolled for nine (9) or more credits or units in any one semester, you must enroll in the GTU HIPS program, or provide proof of health insurance that has comparable benefits and costs. Enrollment in the HIPS plan is for the twelve months of the academic year beginning on September 1, 2007 and ending on August 31, 2008. Unless your eligibility to participate in the program changes, you will be enrolled for the entire year. Premiums for the plan are paid in two equal installments at the beginning of each semester. The monthly and semester rates for the HIPS plan are:

Enrollment applications are accepted only during these periods: August 1 to September 30, 2007 and January 1 to February 28, 2008.

For further information, contact your Business Office or your Office of Student Affairs.