By JONATHAN D. GLATER The New York attorney general began sending subpoenas and document requests this month to colleges including Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown and several State University of New York campuses as part of an investigation of...

New York AG Probes Colleges’ Ties to Health Insurers

New York AG Andrew Cuomo has launched a new health-care investigation.

This one has to do with colleges’ relationships with health insurers. Looks like he’s checking into whether there’s enough disclosure of policy terms and costs to students, and whether colleges are receiving any improper payments for steering students to particular insurers, the New York Times reports.

“We are primarily focused on whether insurance companies are paying schools to push students into health coverage they don’t really need and shouldn’t really want,” Benjamin Lawsky, special assistant to the AG, wrote in an email to the Times.

Health insurance can be a sore subject in the college world, in part because schools often require students to buy certain health policies and campus health centers often don’t accept the plans that students have through their parents, James Boyle, president of College Parents of America, told the NYT.