GET READY FOR BENEFITS OPEN ENROLLMENT
Nov. 1-27: Select your employee and family benefits
Benefits Open Enrollment for UF Health Shands employees begins Nov. 1 and closes Nov. 27. Review your current plan to ensure you are enrolled in the benefits that best satisfy your and your family’s health needs for the upcoming 2020 plan year.
Look for the UF Health Shands Human Resources Benefits Newsletter in your home mailbox the week of Oct. 22 — it outlines changes to this year’s benefits plans and guides you through the enrollment process.
Complete your Benefits Open Enrollment online or in person with an enroller.
Visit the Bridge intranet homepage, hover over “Employee Services,” click on “HR Gainesville — Shands,” then “Self-Service,” then “Visit HR Self-Service Now.” You will log in using your Shands ID and password. Be sure to hit “submit” if you make any changes to your plan to save them. Please print or save your confirmation sheet.
Visit enrollers in the UF Health Shands Hospital Atrium and at offsite locations for assistance in choosing the right benefits plan. Employees must contact their supervisors to schedule a one-on-one consultation with an enroller.
“Open Enrollment is the only time that employees can make changes to their benefits package,” said David Thaxton, vice president of The Elan Group, an employee benefits firm that will staff our enrollment events. “Enrollers are there to help employees navigate the system. We can give guidance on how to choose the proper plan that fits each employee’s needs.”
Be sure to stay up-to-date on your benefits plan as there are changes for the upcoming plan year.
Enrollers can inform you about voluntary plans — including accident plans, cancer policies and life insurance — to help you decide if they are right for you. Pharmacy plan, dental plan and legal plan vendors and medical third-party administrators also will be available to answer questions during the annual benefits fair the week of Nov. 18.
Please be aware of automatic enrollment. If you previously waived GatorCare coverage, you must waive coverage again each year or you will be automatically enrolled in waive coverage with no medical credits (opt-out cash).
A note about other elections: Flexible spending accounts (the health care reimbursement account, or HCRA, and dependent care reimbursement account, or DCRA) must be elected every year — these plans do not roll over to the new year and they require a new election.
On Dec. 15, HR will ask employees to review their benefits summary for the 2020 plan year elections.
If there are any discrepancies in your plan, please visit Bridge.UFHealth.org/Shands-HR or call the UF Health Shands Benefits office at 352-265-0043.
