This is an important Open Enrollment for UC faculty, staff, and retirees because the University has restructured medical plan options for 2008 to help preserve meaningful choices and quality benefits while limiting cost increases.

For next year, we have consolidated HMO offerings, added a new medical plan, provided a new wellness program and enhanced, standardized behavioral health benefits for most plans. Some employee and retiree medical plan costs will decrease from 2007, and others will increase modestly.

The Definity Health, High Option (non-Medicare), PacifiCare, and Select EPO plans will be discontinued. Employees and retirees in these plans need to consider the plan options that will be available to them next year and take appropriate enrollment action.

Taking into account plan changes for 2008, if you are satisfied with your current coverage and do not need to make any changes for next year, you need not take any Open Enrollment action (except for HCRA and DepCare enrollment).

See the detailed employee announcement [PDF] and retiree announcement [PDF] that were mailed to home addresses in October.

To begin, choose your Open Enrollment category above (Employees, Retirees, COBRA Enrollees, or Post-Docs).

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