Sandia - EBView · Medicare should also be sending you information.\爀屲You’ll have the current...
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Helping You Prepare For Your Upcoming PreMedicare Enrollment Retiree Benefits 2019 Sandia
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Provide assistance to help you review all of your health care options.
Individualized telephone support provided at no cost to you.
Via Benefits customer service:
1(888) 598-7809
Available 6 am – 7pm MT Monday – Friday.
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What Should I Have Received in The Mail?
Via Benefits mailed to each Medicare household: 2019 Benefit Choices and Enrollment Guide
Note:
If you retired prior to 2012, you
will received one version of the booklet .
If you retired after 2012, you
will receive a different version. Each booklet contains
information for Medicare and PreMedicare participants.
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PreMedicare Open Enrollment 10/15 – 11/16
Please see our representatives at the table if you have specific questions.
What’s ”New” for 2019
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Coverage: Take Action: Medical To enroll or disenroll in a medical plan
To change your current medical plan To waive coverage
Dental (retirees only) To enroll or disenroll in the dental plan To waive coverage
Dependent Coverage If you wish to add a dependent, you must do so during open enrollment.
Mid-year additions require a qualifying event. You may drop a dependent at any time.
If you are satisfied with your coverage, you do not need to take any action.
Do I Need to Take Action During Open Enrollment?
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Sandia Total Health Network Options
Sandia Total Health BCBSNM Plan
Sandia Total Health UnitedHealthcare Plan
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Health Assessment for HRA
To receive HRA dollars in 2019 you and your PreMedicare spouse must have completed the health assessment by September 30, 2018.
PreMedicare retirees and their PreMedicare spouses will be required to complete a Health Assessment by September 30, 2019 with their insurance carrier to receive their portion of HRA dollars in 2020.
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There is a premium increase to the Dental Plan for 2019.
If you need an additional ID card, these can be ordered at www.toolkitsonline.com
Retired 12/31/2009 or earlier
Retired 1/1/2009 through 12/31/2011 Monthly Premiums
Retired on or after 1/1/2012 Monthly Premiums
Retiree Only
$0
$9.00 $46.00
Retiree plus one $18.00 $90.00
Retire plus two or more $26.00 $118.00
Sandia Delta Dental Plan
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Medical Coverage
To continue coverage as a surviving spouse and/or dependent, you must elect to continue coverage through Via Benefits.
The cost to continue coverage is 50% of the full medical premium for the survivor of a retiree or employee with 15 or more years of service.
Continued coverage is available until the surviving spouse remarries, dependent children become ineligible and/or coverage is terminated with Sandia.
Surviving Spouse Continuation of Coverage
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Dental Coverage
Dental coverage for surviving spouse and/or eligible dependents is discontinued at the end of the month of retiree’s death.
Group coverage may be temporarily continued (COBRA), for up to 36 months by paying the full monthly premium COBRA surviving spouse rate $46 plus the 2% administrative fee.
Other long-term dental plan coverage information for surviving spouse is available through Via Benefits Benefit Advisor.
Surviving Spouse Continuation of Coverage (cont.)
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Check to ensure that your child meets the eligibility requirements to be enrolled.
Children are covered until age 26.
If your child is no longer eligible, please be sure to contact Via Benefits to disenroll.
You must disenroll dependents within 31 days of qualifying event.
Dependent Eligibility
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3- months before reaching age 65…
Enroll in Medicare Parts A and B for an effective date the beginning of the month in which you become Medicare-eligible.
Contact Medicare or your local Social Security office for more information.
Approximately 3 months before age 65, you should receive information from
Via Benefits. Call Via Benefits to review health care options (888) 598-7809.
What Do I Do When I Turn 65?
If you or your covered dependent becomes Medicare-eligible due to disability, you or your covered dependent will need to enroll in Medicare Parts A and B.
Note:
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Confirmation/Billing Statements
NO ACTION You will continue with same plan
options.
You will NOT receive a new confirmation statement.
You will NOT need to make any changes to your automatic debit for premium payment.
New premium amounts will be applied beginning with January premium payment for Sandia group sponsored plans. Check with insurance company on individual plans.
TAKE ACTION You will receive a new
confirmation statement of new plan coverage.
You will NOT need to make any changes to your automatic debit for premium payment for Sandia Group sponsored plans. *Individual plans may require a change.
New premium amounts will be applied beginning with the January premium payment.
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PreMedicare/Medicare information @
SandiaRetireeBenefits.com
Via Benefits Medicare plan options @ My.ViaBenefits.com/Sandia
Contact information is located in the front of your open enrollment guide
Resource Website information
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Blue Cross Blue Shield, NM
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UnitedHealthcare
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Questions
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