During the period of March 30 through April 10, benefit-eligible employees may enroll or make changes in the University’s health, life, disability, dental, and ACES flexible spending account benefit plans. It is the only chance for benefit-eligible employees to enroll or make changes until the next open enrollment period unless you have a qualifying change in status.
Highlighted below are announcements, important changes, and reminders about the University’s benefits (premium changes will be effective May 1 and benefit changes will be effective June 1). For more information, please review the open enrollment documents at: https://bit.ly/2wPBKLn
Everyone wishing to participate in our benefit plans will be required to enroll, so please read the remainder of this document carefully.
On-line Benefit Enrollment
We will once again be using an on-line enrollment process, eliminating all paper enrollment forms for health, life, dental, and long term disability insurance, as well as the ACES flexible spending account. This ensures the accuracy of your enrollment elections and maintains records electronically regarding your current and future participation. Enrollment/changes to your TIAA and Emeriti VEBA retirement plan salary deferral will continue to be processed on forms available from the Office of Human Resources. Therefore, you do not need to re-enroll in either of these benefit plans.
ALL benefit eligible employees (including those who do not want to make any changes to their current coverage) must enter their elections by April 10. As all employees have now utilized this system either during last few years’ open enrollments or as a new hire, most should find this to be an easyto- follow process. Simply log in to WebAdvisor following the instructions below, affirm your current benefit elections (or make changes to coverage if you wish), enter dependent information for family coverage, and beneficiary information for life insurance. If you previously entered your dependents/beneficiaries via online benefit enrollment, those entries will already be pre-populated for you. Please review this information and make changes as necessary. If you do not wish to be enrolled in our insurance plans, please check the “opt out” button for those benefits.
Please review the On-line Benefit Enrollment FAQ and Manual, at: https://bit.ly/2wPBKLn, which should answer many of the questions you might have. Please contact the Office of Human Resources if you need assistance with your on-line enrollment. We recommend to print your “Current Benefits” to have available for reference as you make your elections for the new benefit year.
On-line Benefit Enrollment Log-in Instructions:
- Log in to WebAdvisor at: https://webadvisor.evansville.edu
- Click on the “Employees” button (highlighted in purple)
- Click on “Current Benefits” and print this screen for your reference
- Click on the “Benefit Enrollment” link (located in the “Employee Profile” section)
- Follow the instructions in red located at the top of the Benefit Enrollment page.
Health Insurance Premiums
Premiums for the upcoming plan year can be found at: https://bit.ly/2wPBKLn. The increase in premiums is 2.5% and premium adjustments will be made beginning with the first payroll in May for coverage beginning June 1.
In addition, the following premium levels are for employees enrolled in the HRA plan based participation in the University’s wellness program for coverage effective June 1 (and premiums beginning in May):
- For members that choose not to participate in a wellness screening at the UE Medical Clinic: premiums will increase $23 per bi-weekly pay
- For members that are tested as tobacco users: premiums will increase $14 per bi-weekly pay
- For members with two or more risk factors: premiums will increase $7 per bi-weekly pay
If your spouse is covered on the UE health insurance plan, both of you need to participate and have one or less risk factors to avoid an increased premium. However, if both the employee and spouse choose not to participate, both are tobacco users, etc., there will only be one premium increase.
Only the most recent screening results will be used in April 2020 to determine premium charges that will be effective May 2020. Most employees and spouses enrolled on the HRA plan have already completed their screening.
For those employees who were unable to get a screening before the UE Medical Clinic was closed for wellness screenings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University will not increase premiums. However, once the campus is re-opened and the UE Medical Clinic is accepting appointments for wellness screenings, the University will provide an update with a new deadline to get a screening so that these employees can avoid the additional premium.
Health Insurance Plan Design Changes
Please note the following changes that will take effect May 1 to supplement the free medical services already provides through UE’s onsite medical clinic:
- Employees and dependents will have access to Teladoc: a free service that provides access to licensed physicians 24/7, 365 days a year. You can get medical advice and treatment by phone, online video or with the Teladoc mobile app. You can use Teladoc for medical advice and care, including:
- For non-emergent medical issues, questions or concerns
- When your primary doctor is not open
- When you are at home, traveling or do not want to take time off work to see a doctor
- When you need prescription refills (please note, there is no guarantee you will be prescribed medication).
- Employees and dependents can utilize CVS MinuteClinics at no cost. MinuteClinic makes it easy for you to get the care you need, when and where you need it. And now you can get access to all covered MinuteClinic services at no cost:
- MinuteClinic is a walk-in clinic inside select CVS Pharmacy and Target stores, and is the largest provider of retail health care in the United States—with over 1,100 locations in 33 states, including locations in Evansville.
- It’s open every day, including evenings. MinuteClinic offers both walk-in and scheduled appointment options.
- MinuteClinic health care providers treat a variety of illnesses, injuries and conditions. They can also write prescriptions, when medically appropriate.
On-Site Medical Clinic
As a reminder, the UE Medical Clinic is available for employees and family members covered on UE health insurance. It is in the same location as UE’s Student Health Center in Sampson Hall. All services offered by the clinic are provided at no cost.
The medical clinic is open 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, staffed by a Registered Nurse and Certified Medical Assistant. Eighteen of those hours also include staffing by a Nurse Practitioner. Along with the Student Health Center and Xtra Care 4U (see below), we will have a Nurse Practitioner available 32 hours per week. We strongly encourage the scheduling of an appointment at our clinic to ensure the staff is prepared to serve you. However, they will do their best to accommodate walk-ins.
In addition to the UE medical clinic, Tri-State Community Clinics offers Xtra Care 4U. This service provides an additional four hour time period (7:00 am until 11:00 am) each Friday for employees and family members who are eligible to use the UE Medical Clinic to obtain care for acute/urgent care needs from a nurse practitioner. Xtra Care 4U is available at Tri-State Community Clinic’s main office located at 8601 N. Kentucky Avenue, just off Hwy 41 and Mt. Pleasant Road. Appointments are not required. Patients are seen on a first come, first served basis. Just like the UE Medical Clinic, all services provided by Xtra Care 4U are at no cost. However, this service will not provide refills on any maintenance medications or perform routine physicals or wellness exams.
Dental Insurance
There will be no changes to dental insurance premiums or benefits for this year.
Life and Long Term Disability Insurance
There will be no increase in premiums for Group Life, Voluntary Life, or Long Term Disability insurance. You may purchase for the first time or increase current Voluntary Life Insurance coverage by $10,000 per year for employee and $5,000 per year for spouse. You may elect a coverage amount of Voluntary Life Insurance for your spouse for no more than 50% of your coverage amount. The total of Group Life and Voluntary Life Insurance amounts cannot be greater than 6x your annual salary amount.
ACES Flexible Spending Account
If you would like to participate in this program for 2020-21, you will need to enter the amount of your annual ACES election in WebAdvisor Benefits Enrollment On-line. A detailed ACES flexible spending account packet and debit card summary can be found at: https://bit.ly/2wPBKLn. ACES participants may carry over up to $500 in unused health care flexible spending account dollars into the new plan year. ACES participants can receive reimbursements via direct deposit to their bank account. A flexible spending account direct deposit authorization form can be found at: https://bit.ly/2wPBKLn.
TIAA Retirement Plan
This is a reminder that eligible employees may enroll, change salary deferrals, change investment elections, or waive participation at any time in the TIAA 403(b) retirement plan. If you wish to enroll, change your salary deferral, or waive participation, please submit the following form to the Office of Human Resources: https://bit.ly/2FjUdkW If you wish to change your investment elections, please contact TIAA at 1-800-842-2776 or http://www1.tiaa-cref.org/tcm/universityofevansville/.
No Open Enrollment Meetings
As the campus is closed to meetings in compliance with Governor Holcomb’s Stay at Home Directive, we will not be offering open enrollment meetings this year. However, a WebEx meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 1 at 10:00 am with a representative from Meritain Health, who will provide additional information about Teladoc and CVS MinuteClinics, and will be available to answer any questions you might have about the health insurance.
When it's time, join your WebEx meeting here.
Meeting number (access code): 713 939 941
Meeting password: GVq6M674yz$
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Questions
If you have any questions about open enrollment and/or the University’s benefit plans, please contact the Office of Human Resources at hr@evansville.edu or 812-488-2943.
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