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From the Vice President for Finance and Management
Employees who are enrolled in the New York State Health Insurance Program will have 30 days from the date the 2010 rates are approved and published to change their health insurance carriers. The New York State Employee Benefits Division will mail the new health plan rates and deadline dates to enrolled employees’ home addresses. “Choices,” a comparison booklet of the insurance plans, is available online. Employees may select a different health plan by completing change forms in the Human Resource Management Office, Cleveland Hall 410.

Important note: Univera Healthcare will not be offered under NYSHIP for the 2010 program year. Employees who are currently enrolled in Univera Healthcare must change to the Empire Plan or a NYSHIP-approved HMO that serves the area where they live or work during the Option Transfer Period. Employees who are enrolled in Univera Healthcare who do not change their health insurance carrier during the Option Transfer Period will automatically be enrolled in the Empire Plan for the 2010 program year, effective January 1, 2010.

Representatives from the Empire Plan, Community Blue, and Independent Health will be on campus from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Thursday, December 3, in E. H. Butler Library 210 to answer questions about their health insurance plans and anticipated changes in coverage for 2010.

Please call the Employee Benefits Office, 878-4821, with questions or for additional information.