Insurance
PNW offers comprehensive employee health insurance, along with student coverage and optional add‑on plans to help you choose the protection that fits your needs.
Insurance Resources
International Travel and Information
Resources for those traveling internationally.
COBRA Continuation of Coverage
Children grow up, employees retire or change jobs. It’s a potentially devastating error to go without insurance during a change in family status. For many of these occurrences, COBRA can help with the transition.
Beneficiary Management
Ensuring your beneficiary information is updated is one way to help your loved ones when it matters most.
PNW Campus Share
Contains benefit-related documents, forms, resources, instructions and more!
HIPAA Privacy Regulations and Legal Notices
Purdue University complies with several laws regarding benefit offerings and protecting employee health information.
Insurance By Type
HealthSync Network
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Medical, Prescription Drug and Lab Insurance
Purdue provides different medical options from which to choose so you can select the plan that is best for you and your family. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield administers the health plans and you have access to the same network on all plans.
The primary differences between the plans are what you will pay in premiums, as well as your deductible and out-of-pocket maximums.
Dental Insurance
Purdue offers three dental insurance plans to choose from. Delta Dental is the insurance carrier and you may select dentists that participate in the Delta Dental PPO or Delta Dental Premier networks.
There is a free preventive-only dental plan, or you can choose from two buy up plans to provide coverage when additional dental services are necessary.
Vision Insurance
Purdue offers vision coverage through Vision Service Plan as an option for all benefit-eligible faculty and staff, spouses and dependents. The vision coverage is premium-free. Simply elect during your enrollment period.
VSP benefits help you get the glasses or contacts you need to correct your vision. The program covers services from both VSP member and non-member doctors. In addition to glasses and contacts, the plan offers discounts on LASIK and PRK procedures.
Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
You are protected during life’s critical situations. Purdue offers a variety of insurance plans to help you and your family through the difficulties of a death in the family or a significant dismemberment injury as a result of an accident.
Explore Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
The university offers disability insurance administered by Guardian that provides income replacement in the event of an illness or injury that results in your inability to work for an extended period of time.
All benefit-eligible employees are enrolled in Long Term Disability Insurance. The premium is shared by Purdue and the employee.
Short Term Disability Insurance is available for certain classifications of employees and enrollment is optional.
Student Insurance
PNW is happy to offer health insurance options to students through United Health Care Student Resources. Coverage includes medical and prescription drugs.
Anyone who enrolls in the medical plan will automatically be enrolled in the dental plan. Dental coverage is through Delta Dental. Registered undergraduate and graduate domestic students taking six or more credit hours and degree seeking are eligible to enroll. Online-only students are not eligible for Purdue University student insurance.
All international undergraduate and graduate students who are registered, regardless of credit hours, or in an approved professional certificate program must enroll in the mandatory university health insurance plan unless you meet the criteria for a waiver.
Voluntary Insurance Benefits
Purdue offers several additional voluntary benefit insurance options. You pay 100% of the premium; however, you also experience the benefit of a group rate. Options include:
Insurance Apps
Anthem: Sydney is designed to deliver a simple, intuitive and more personal way to get information about your plan, health and more.
The BenefitFocus App offers you instant access to benefits information. Confidently manage and navigate your benefits to be prepared for the moments that matter most.
AffirmedRx you refill mail service prescriptions, track order status, view prescription history, price prescriptions and more.
With LiveHealth Online, visit with board-certified doctors, licensed therapists, registered dieticians and more through live video on your smartphone.