{"id":89287,"date":"2024-10-30T09:31:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=89287"},"modified":"2024-10-30T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:31:17","slug":"thursday-final-day-of-open-enrollment-for-utoledo-health-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_30_2024\/thursday-final-day-of-open-enrollment-for-utoledo-health-benefits","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Final Day of Open Enrollment for UToledo Health Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s month-long open enrollment continues through Thursday, Oct. 31, for employees to make important choices about their 2025 health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The University will again offer several benefit plans to best suit the needs of employees and their eligible dependents. UToledo continues to support its employees by covering 80% of the total premium cost on all available health plans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-89288\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BENEFITS-Open-Enrollment-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional graphic for the Open Enrollment for 2025 benefits now through Oct. 31.\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BENEFITS-Open-Enrollment-SIDE.jpg 747w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BENEFITS-Open-Enrollment-SIDE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Employees and health plan members have the opportunity to experience lower overall healthcare costs by utilizing the available services through UToledo Health, where the deductible and out-of-pocket maximum costs are the lowest.<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to the Open Enrollment web pages located on the HR website to review the adjusted 2025 rate charts for specific elections.<\/p>\n<p>Due to updated IRS regulations on high deductible plans, the blue plan will see an increase to the minimum deductible to be compliant with HSA requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Employees participating in HSA or FSA elections must assign their deductions in the Open Enrollment portal. The 2024 plan and premium information is posted for reference at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/open-enrollment\/\">utoledo.edu\/open-enrollment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Human Resources is available to assist with any questions during the Open Enrollment process and can be contacted today, Oct. 30, and tomorrow, Oct. 31, from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. by emailing <a href=\"mailto:benefits@utoledo.edu\">benefits@utoledo.edu<\/a>\u00a0or calling 419.530.4747, Option 4.<\/p>\n<p>The department also will offer one-on-one virtual consultations with benefits specialists through Oct. 31. Schedule an appointment or use the open enrollment live chat available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/open-enrollment\/\">utoledo.edu\/open-enrollment<\/a>\u00a0today, Oct. 30, and tomorrow, Oct. 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University\u2019s month-long open enrollment continues through the end of October for employees to make important choices about their 2025 health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89290,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89287\/revisions\/89290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}