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2017 Benefits Enrollment
Benefits Enrollment
Newly Hired Employees
Newly hired employees have 30 days from your date of hire to enroll.
If you miss this new hire enrollment opportunity, you must wait until
annual enrollment to elect or change your coverage. You may also
change your coverage if you experience a qualifying life event.
Current Employees
If you are a current employee
participating in annual Annual enrollment is your yearly opportunity to change your beneits
enrollment, you do not need to take coverage. This year’s 2017 annual enrollment window starts on
action if you do not wish to make any Monday, October 31 and ends on Friday, November 11. Remember,
changes to your current elections. if you do not make changes during this window, you cannot change
However, if you participate in the
FSA or HSA program and wish to your elections during the year unless you experience a qualifying life
continue participation next year, you event.
do need to make a new annual
election for 2017. Dependent Audit
You can cover certain eligible family members in our program. Newly
added dependents will be subject to an audit after enrolling. You
will receive a letter from our auditors which details the appropriate
documentation and deadline to provide. If documentation is not
received, the dependent will be deemed ineligible and dropped from
Premier PPO coverage. An appeal process will be made available should you miss
the deadline and a dependent is dropped.
Plan Participants
Our premier PPO plan is going Qualifying Events
away. If you are enrolled in this plan
and make no changes during the A qualifying event is a change in your personal life which may impact
2017 annual enrollment, you will your eligibility or dependent’s eligibility for beneits. Common examples
automatically be enrolled in the include marriage, birth, adoption, or change of job status.
Classic PPO plan.
It is your responsibility to contact the Employee Service Center at
866.213.8919 within 30 days of the qualifying life event. Failure to
notify the Employee Service Center within 30 days will prohibit your
ability to change your beneits election(s).
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Benefits Enrollment
Newly Hired Employees
Newly hired employees have 30 days from your date of hire to enroll.
If you miss this new hire enrollment opportunity, you must wait until
annual enrollment to elect or change your coverage. You may also
change your coverage if you experience a qualifying life event.
Current Employees
If you are a current employee
participating in annual Annual enrollment is your yearly opportunity to change your beneits
enrollment, you do not need to take coverage. This year’s 2017 annual enrollment window starts on
action if you do not wish to make any Monday, October 31 and ends on Friday, November 11. Remember,
changes to your current elections. if you do not make changes during this window, you cannot change
However, if you participate in the
FSA or HSA program and wish to your elections during the year unless you experience a qualifying life
continue participation next year, you event.
do need to make a new annual
election for 2017. Dependent Audit
You can cover certain eligible family members in our program. Newly
added dependents will be subject to an audit after enrolling. You
will receive a letter from our auditors which details the appropriate
documentation and deadline to provide. If documentation is not
received, the dependent will be deemed ineligible and dropped from
Premier PPO coverage. An appeal process will be made available should you miss
the deadline and a dependent is dropped.
Plan Participants
Our premier PPO plan is going Qualifying Events
away. If you are enrolled in this plan
and make no changes during the A qualifying event is a change in your personal life which may impact
2017 annual enrollment, you will your eligibility or dependent’s eligibility for beneits. Common examples
automatically be enrolled in the include marriage, birth, adoption, or change of job status.
Classic PPO plan.
It is your responsibility to contact the Employee Service Center at
866.213.8919 within 30 days of the qualifying life event. Failure to
notify the Employee Service Center within 30 days will prohibit your
ability to change your beneits election(s).
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