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Open Enrollment for 2018 Benefits
Will your current benefit elections still be the best for you and your family in 2018?
Open Enrollment is your time to enroll or drop benefit coverage, change plans, or add/drop dependents. Changes you make during Open Enrollment will be effective on January 1, 2018. Outside of Open Enrollment, you can only make changes if you have a qualifying event.
See your plan comparisons, rates, benefit details and enrollment instructions on the HR Employee Portal. Benefits will also be offering information sessions if you are looking to learn a little more about all options available to you during this time. Below you will find a brief overview of everything taking place during Open Enrollment for 2018.
What exactly do you have to do as an employee?
- 1. Re-enroll for Flexible Spending Accounts if you would like to participate in 2018.
Note: Health care, dental and short term income protection enrollments will rollover for 2018, unless you change them during Open Enrollment.
2. Check your current enrollments in Employee Direct Access (EDA) to make sure you will have the benefits you need in 2018.
What are the basics you need to know?
Regarding health care, Anthem will continue to provide coverage for Henrico County.
- Premier POS and Standard POS enrollees will have one Anthem card for medical services AND one Express Scripts card for prescription drug coverage to use come January. Even though employees will have two cards, the pharmacy benefit will be included in the health care rate. You can find a list of participating pharmacies on the Express Scripts website.
- Lumenos HSA enrollees will have BOTH medical and prescription drug coverage through Anthem. This plan will have no increase in 2018 and County contributions to HSAs will be the same.
Delta Dental will continue to offer the same plan options for 2018. There will be no changes to rates or benefits!
Navia will also continue to provide employee Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs). This year there will be a $50.00 increase to the Health Care FSA, bringing the limit to $2600. The Dependent (Day) Care FSA limit will remain at $5,000.
MetLife will continue to provide disability coverage for Short Term Income Protection. There will be no changes to rates or benefits offered.
There you have it, a brief overview of what is to come with Open Enrollment for 2018 Benefits.