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The University provides a number of benefits to eligible faculty and staff to help take care of what matters most. The way you enroll?in these benefits differs a little bit depending on your?enrollment status:
? 1.?? Which best fits you???
? 2. ? Learn about your plan options??
Learn about the plans
- For 2023, check out the .
- For 2024, check out the
. - Or visit each plan's webpage for details:
- Healthy Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account
- Custom Network Plan (Columbia and St. Louis)
- PPO Plan with Tiered Feature (Kansas City and Rolla)
- PPO Plan
- Flexible Spending Account
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- Short-Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment
Get plan-specific details
- Looking for ways to compare medical plan options or learn about network providers? Visit the .
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- Looking for details about your current medical insurance? Get personalized medical plan information via
- Visit our plan contacts webage for a directory of who to reach out to for your other plan choices.
You may find these videos useful as you research your insurance options.
? 3.?? Double-check which providers are in-network?
Choosing a provider is important. Visit our plan contacts webpage for links to all provider directories.
? 4. ? Make your decisions?
Before going through the enrollment process, make sure you know how you want to answer the following questions:
- Which plan(s) do you wish to enroll in?
- How many individuals do you want to cover? Plans have coverage levels like "self only," "self and spouse," etc. that you will choose from when enrolling.
- Confirm eligibility: For any dependents who are already covered by your plan(s), make sure they are eligible to be covered.
- For example, most children can be covered only until they reach age 26. To confirm your dependents are eligible, consult the applicable summary plan description(s) (SPD).
- New dependents: You will need to specify any spouse/sponsored adult dependent or child you want to cover in each plan.
- For every dependent you are adding to a plan, you will need their full name, birth date and Social Security number.
- Proof of Relationship: Proof of Relationship (POR) is required in order to enroll new dependents.
- After you complete your enrollment, submit supporting documentation to the HR Service Center or your campus HR Generalist within the required time frame.
- See the (PDF) for more information.
- Confirm eligibility: For any dependents who are already covered by your plan(s), make sure they are eligible to be covered.
- Where possible, do you want to enroll on a pre-tax or after-tax basis?
- Premiums are deducted from your paycheck automatically, and selecting pre-tax or after-tax determines the order in which taxes and premiums are deducted.
- If you're not sure which is best for you, watch the pre-tax vs. after-tax premiums video for help.
? 5. ? Submit your plan choices
Select and submit your plan choices in the University's employee portal, . You may make changes to your insurance elections only during your enrollment period or have experienced a qualified family/employment status change:
- Newly Benefit-Eligible/Annual Enrollment: Select 'My Benefits' tile and then click on' Benefits Enrollment' from the left-hand menu.
- Qualified Family/Employment Status Change: Select 'My Benefits' tile and then click on 'Life Events' from the left-hand menu.
Enrolling in myHR
Full step-by-step instructions on completing the enrollment process, with screenshots, is available on the myHR Training webpage.
- Open your internet browser and navigate to (myhr.umsystem.edu) (Firefox or Chrome recommended). Log in with your username and password. Click ¡°Sign In.¡±
- Click the ¡°My Benefits¡± tile. Then, to access the self-service application, select ¡°Benefits Enrollment¡± from the menu on the left side of the screen.
- Follow the instructions on your screen to select and submit your plan choices or waive coverage.
- After you click the ¡°Submit Enrollment¡± button, a ¡°Benefits Alerts¡± pop-up will appear stating your enrollments have been submitted. Click ¡°Done.¡± An email confirmation will be sent to your university email account so you know your submission was received.
- Note: You are not done with your enrollment until you click both the ¡°Submit Enrollment¡± button as well as the ¡°Done¡± button on the pop-up screen.
- When your Confirmation Statement has been generated, you will receive another email to your university email account with steps on how to view/print your confirmation statement.
- Newly-benefit eligible employees receive their statement within a few weeks of enrolling. Those enrolling during Annual Enrollment receive their statement mid-December.
Reviewed 2023-09-21