The System Employee Benefits Advisory Committee (SEBAC) will meet Feb. 21 at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will be conducted via TTVN.
If you would like to attend the meeting and need information regarding TTVN locations in your area, contact your SEBAC representative.
Thanks to recent changes by CIGNA, Dental HMO participants no longer need referrals from their general primary care dentists to select network pediatric dentists for covered children younger than seven. CIGNA has also eliminated the pre-authorization process required for these children to seek care from network pediatric dentists.
The participant may contact CIGNA to designate a pediatric dentist as the child’s primary care dentist by contacting CIGNA at (800) 367-1037.
I recently had a Change in Status, so I would like to make changes to my benefit coverages. How long after the change do I have to do that?
You have 60 days to make changes to your insurance coverages because of a Change in Status. Federal law allows changes to benefits paid with before-tax dollars only within a certain period of time after the change in status has occurred. If you don’t do it within that period, you will have to wait until the following Annual Enrollment period to make a benefit change. Because you have only 60 days in which to make a change, you should contact your Human Resources office as soon as you experience a Change in Status and think you may need to make a change in your benefits. A list of qualified Changes in Status is published each year in the A&M System’s Annual Enrollment booklet, New Employee Benefit Enrollment Booklet and benefit plan description booklets.
Any changes you make in your enrollment must be consistent with the Change in Status you experience. For example, if you have a baby, you can enroll the baby in your health coverage, but you can’t enroll yourself in dental coverage.