Overseas student health cover (OSHC)

International students in Australia on a student visa are required, as a condition of their visa, to maintain valid health insurance. In most cases this means maintaining Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC). Students from Norway and Sweden (opens external site) who have health cover in their home countries may be exempt from OSHC.

The OSHC covers emergency medical attention through the public health system. It does not include physiotherapy, optical or dental care, the cost of admission to a private hospital, pre-existing medical conditions or non-emergency ambulance service. Extra insurance is available to cover these possible additional expenses.

For further information on OSHC refer to the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) website (opens an external site).

UTS can help commencing students arrange OSHC through the health insurance provider Medibank Private.

Commencing students - at the time of - accepting an offer to study at UTS, must either:

• pay the full visa length Medibank Private OSHC - premium, or
• provide evidence that they have current valid OSHC, or alternate health insurance (opens an external site).

*UTS has an arrangement with Medibank Private (opens an external site) to organise OSHC on behalf of commencing international students, for visa length coverage. To calculate your visa length premium for Medibank Private you can get a quote from the Medibank Private OSHC calculator (opens an external site).

If you need to extend your OSHC for any reason you can also use the Mediback Private OSHC calculator (opens an external site) to calculate the fee payable.

Medibank Private membership card

If you have arranged Medibank Private OSHC through UTS, your membership details will be provided at Orientation.

After you have arrived in Sydney and have a confirmed address, you can logon to the Medibank Private site (opens an external site) to indicate where you would like your membership card posted.