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Aetna Student Health

Since 1996, Aetna Student Health (formerly known as The Chickering Group) has partnered with Cornell University to support student health as the administrator of the Student Health Insurance Plan.

Aetna Student Health is a full-service insurance broker and administrator that provides high quality and competitively priced health insurance programs for college and university students. For the last 20 years, student health insurance has been their only business. Today, Aetna Student Health is the market leader in providing coverage for more than 285,000 undergraduate and graduate students at over 110 institutions nationwide. 

As an independent subsidiary of Aetna – one of the largest and most respected health care organizations in the United States – Aetna Student Health offers an extensive nationwide network of physicians, hospitals, and pharmacies to higher education institutions across the nation.

Visit the Aetna Student Health web site 

Go to www.aetnastudenthealth.com

For Cornell SHIP-specific information, choose the “Student Connection” link, and enter the Cornell Policy Number of 711115.  

The Insurance Company

Aetna Student Health Claims Administrators, Inc.
P.O. Box 981106
El Paso, TX 79998
Phone: 800 859-8475
617 218-8400 (outside the US: collect calls are accepted)  

General contact information 

Aetna Student Health
One Charles Park
Cambridge, MA 02142-1254
617 218-8400 (phone) 617 218-5700 (fax)


Contact Information:

Cornell University Office of Student Health Insurance
409 College Avenue
Suite 211
Ithaca, NY 14850

Phone: 607 255-6363
Fax: 607 254-5221

E-mail: sicu@cornell.edu

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