Patient Tools

Patient Tools

Navigating health during college is crucial for students’ well-being. Having a set of patient tools empowers them to make informed decisions about their health. In this section, you’ll find information about costs, insurance, necessary forms, and other tools that can contribute to a student’s healthier college experience.

Access the Patient Portal

Fees for service

Oregon State University health fees per term

Fall, winter and spring 2024-2025 health fees

  • Student Health Services: $166.49
  • Counseling & Psychological Services: $77.36
  • Total health fee: $243.85

Summer 2024 health fees

  • Student Health Services: $159.45
  • Counseling & Psychological Services: $55.31
  • Total health fee: $214.76

About the OSU health fee

Students are notified of tuition and fees before enrolling, and all fees are included in financial aid calculations. 

One visit to Student Health Services makes up for the cost of the quarterly health fee. Initial office visits in the private medical community generally cost more than the charge for the university's health fee.

The health fee

  • Supports the public health of the OSU community.
  • Makes health services accessible to students.
  • Supports 60 percent of Student Health Services operations.
  • Covers services for both Student Health Services and CAPS.

The health fee covers

  • Most office visits (excludes all lab work or procedures)
  • Nutrition consults with a registered dietitian
  • Substance use counseling services
  • Health promotion outreach programming and events
  • Nurse advice by phone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling 541-737-9355.

Payment and reimbursement

Fees for services not covered under the health fee will be billed to the student’s OSU account. If you have insurance coverage and would like it billed see the following information:

If you have the Oregon State Student Health Insurance Plan from PacificSource

Student Health Services will directly bill your plan if you have this type of coverage. Questions about this plan can be referred to OSU Student Insurance.

If you have the Oregon State Graduate Assistant Plan from PacificSource

you will need to upload your insurance card to the portal, or bring it in to Student Health Services at your appointment.

Please send any questions here

All other insurances are considered “out of network” at Student Health Services, your insurance will be billed as a courtesy. 

Charges not covered by your insurance will appear on your student account after Student Health Services has billed your insurance.  Questions about your bill can be referred to phone 541-737-2068, to Amy Curry. If you leave a message please include your student ID number, remember messages and emails are not secure.

For all patients: 

Before you come in for your appointment, you can upload your insurance card, and sign the “Consent to Treat” and “Assignment of Benefits” on your patient portal.

Student Health Services is not a participating provider for Oregon Health Plan and all non-OSU sponsored insurance plans. Students who are on the Oregon Health Plan and have paid the OSU health fee may still come to Student Health Services for their office visits, which are covered by their OSU health fee. However, any additional services that incur a charge are the responsibility of the patient.

Summer session medical care

Our programs and services are available to students who are enrolled in summer session and have paid the health fee.

Students can access services over the summer without being enrolled in summer session if they:

  • Were enrolled at OSU the previous spring term
  • Will also be registering for fall term
  • Pay the health fee for summer term.

You can pay the summer health fee either in person at Kerr Administration or online. Payment is not accepted at the health center.

Forms

New student forms

Health & immunization forms

The State of Oregon and Oregon State University require proof of immunity. Required health forms can be found on the Medical Clearances tab of the Patient Portal. If you are having trouble accessing these forms, please email the Immunization Compliance Office.

 

College of Veterinary Medicine health history form

Upon admission to OSU College of Veterinary Medicine, this form must be completed and submitted to receive medical clearance. This form is in addition to the general health history form you must complete before your first term at OSU, and is just one part of the required documentation for Veterinary Medicine students (Word doc).

College of Veterinary Medicine Health History Form (Word doc)

Release of information forms

Medical record Release of Information form

You may receive a copy of your records, or you may have a copy forwarded to your personal healthcare provider, by completing the Consent/Authorization to Disclose Medical Records form. 

Consent/Authorization to Disclose Medical Records form (PDF)

Miscellaneous forms

Advance directive form

An advance directive is a set of instructions that explain the specific health care measures a person wants if he or she should have a terminal illness or injury and become incapable of indicating whether to continue curative and life-sustaining treatment, or to remove life support systems. If there are any questions about this form, please contact Medical Records.

Advance Directive Form (PDF)

Sharps Disposal

What to Do with Used Sharps at OSU

Disposal of sharps (e.g., needles and syringes) falls under specific medical waste regulations defined by the EPA. Students at OSU who use sharps for medical reasons are required to dispose of those sharps in accordance with those regulations and the campus sharps program. Students should know about use and disposal guidelines of personal-use needles and syringes. 

  • Students using needles and syringes who live in university-owned housing may participate in the campus sharps disposal program.
  • Students who live in private housing are not eligible to participate in the campus sharps disposal program. (See section below for disposal resources.)
  • In all situations, needles should be handled and disposed of in a manner that protects other household members, building service workers, waste handlers, and the general public from accidental needlesticks.

Questions? Contact the Student Health Services lab at 541-737-7550

Participation in the campus sharps program

Participation in the program is easy, and waste containers are free: 

  • Pick up an approved 1-quart sharps disposal container from Student Health Services (laboratory, first floor in the Health Center).
  • Place needles and/or syringes into the container immediately following use. 
  • Do not fill above the line on the container (the fill line). Do not force sharps into the container.
  • When full, lock the lid in place and return the container to Student Health Services (laboratory, first floor in the Health Center).

Sharps disposal containers are only for items defined as sharps. Other waste such as Band-Aids or Kleenex should be disposed of in the regular trash. 

Medication Disposal

The best way to dispose of unused or expired medications is to drop off the medicine at a drug take back site, location, or program immediately. More information on safe disposal can be found on the FDA website.  

  • OSU Department of Public Safety drop box (2nd floor of Cascades Hall)
  • Philomath Police Department drop box (1010 Applegate Street) 
  • Albany Policy Department (1117 Jackson St., NE)
  • Annual drug take-back events in April and October

University-owned housing

If you reside in any of the following facilities and need to dispose of needles and/or syringes, you should participate in the campus sharps program:

  • Bloss
  • Buxton
  • Callahan
  • Cauthorn
  • Dixion Lodge
  • Finley
  • Halsell
  • Hawley
  • ILLC
  • McNary
  • Orchard Court Family Housing
  • Poling
  • Sackett
  • Tebeau
  • The Gem
  • Weatherford
  • West
  • Wilson

Disposal of needles and syringes from private housing

Search by zip code for locations on where to dispose of and locate containers near you. https://safeneedledisposal.org/states/oregon/

Contacts for disposal of sharps from private housing:

 

Elm Street Pharmacy

1010 7th Ave SW

Albany, OR 97321

541-812-5071

Philomath Family Pharmacy

1640 Main St

Philomath, OR 97370

541-929-2880

Pill Box Health Center Container Exchange Program

906 NW Kings Blvd

Corvallis, OR 97330

541-258-8070

Samaritan Pharmacy-Corvallis

3521 NW Samaritan Dr

Corvallis, OR 97330

541-768-5225

Rice’s Pharmacy

910 NW Kings Blvd

Corvallis, OR 97330

541-752-7779

Advance directive information

An advance directive is a set of instructions that explain the specific health care measures a person wants if they should have a terminal illness or injury, and become incapable of indicating whether to continue curative and life-sustaining treatment or to remove life support systems.

Please note: The Advance Directive form is located on Oregon Health Authority's website. By accessing the form, you will be leaving the SHS website.

Advance Directive Form

Details

The person must develop the advance directive while he or she is able to clearly and definitively express him or herself verbally, in writing, or in sign language.

It must express the person’s own free will regarding their health care, not the will of anyone else. It does not affect routine care for cleanliness and comfort, which must be given whether or not there is an advance directive.

In Oregon, the Health Care Decisions Act (ORS 127.505 - 127.660 and ORS 127.995) allows an individual to preauthorize health care representatives to allow the natural dying process if he or she is medically confirmed to be in one of the conditions described in his or her health care instructions.

This Act does not authorize euthanasia, assisted suicide or any overt action to end the person’s life.

Witnesses:

Either a Notary Public or two adults, at least one of them not related to the person by blood or marriage nor entitled to any portion of the person’s estate, must witness or acknowledge the person’s signing the advance directive. The person’s attending physician, attorney-in-fact, and health care or residential staff may not serve as witnesses.

Health Care Instructions:

These may either be general, or relate to the four specific conditions outlined below. However, general instructions, such as the person never wishes to be placed on life support, may be too vague and not provide for a situation in which an accident or emergency requires that the person be placed on life support temporarily. Specific instructions regarding the person’s wishes in each of the four scenarios listed below are preferred. Some hospitals’ social workers or chaplains will provide instructions and forms for advance directives.

The patient’s physician can determine whether any of these four conditions apply:

  • Close to death: Terminal illness in which death is imminent with or without treatment, and where life support will only postpone the moment of death.
  • Permanently unconscious: Completely lacking an awareness of self and external environment, with no reasonable possibility of a return to a conscious state.
  • Advanced progressive illness: A progressive illness that will be fatal and is unlikely to improve.
  • Extraordinary suffering: Illness or condition in which life support will not improve the person’s medical condition and would cause the person permanent and severe pain.

Health Care Representative:

An advance directive can appoint someone who is at least 18 years of age to make medical decisions for the person when that individual is not able to do so. Among the decisions this health care representative can make is whether to withhold or remove life support, food or hydration.

The health care representative and an alternate must sign the document, accepting their appointment. The patient should appoint a health care representative that he or she trusts completely. A patient can voluntarily revoke their appointment of a health care representative at any time.

A general Durable Power of Attorney, which is for financial affairs, does not include authority to make health care decisions.

Special Instructions and Conditions:

These can be inserted into the Health Care Plan or included for the health care representative as long as they don’t deal with the distribution of property.

Duration and Changes:

The advance directive can be designated in effect for a limited period of time. If not, it is in effect until the person revokes it in writing, or dies. A person can cross out words or add words to his or her advance directive to make it better express his or her wishes.

Source: Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services