What is Open Enrollment?
Open enrollment is the time period each year when eligible employees can enroll or make changes to their current elections in our medical, dental, or supplemental/dependent life insurance plans, and enroll/re-enroll in the flexible spending plans. Employees must also elect a new annual contribution to their Health Savings Account (HSA) as prior elections will not carry over. This year, Open Enrollment is scheduled for November 9, 2020 through November 23, 2020. All changes need to be submitted by 4pm CST on November 23, 2020 to be accepted. Changes made during open enrollment are effective January 1, 2021.
Online Enrollment Process:
This year we are again using the online enrollment system through PlanSource. All eligible employees must login to the system to elect, change, or waive coverage. If you do not login to change elections, current benefits will carry over into 2021 apart from flexible spending account and employee contributions to your health savings account. An email will be sent to all eligible employee’s ISD 917 email address with enrollment instructions open enrollment nears. During open enrollment, you may make the following changes/additions online:
HealthiestYou – Telehealth
- The district will continue to pay for coverage of this service in 2021
- You remain eligible to use this service if you are enrolled at least employee only medical coverage
- If enrolled in medical coverage, you gain access to this service for yourself and eligible family members even if the family members are not covered on the district medical insurance plan
Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
- No changes to our life insurance through Kansas City Life, including the same rates as last year
- Long-Term Disability is changing vendors from Kansas City Life to Madison National Life
- This change allows us to keep our current cost and plan structure
Open Enrollment Employee Meeting
For 2021 Open Enrollment meetings, this year we will hold a virtual meeting for people to attend. People can attend via a Zoom meeting as follows:
Date/Time: Wednesday, November 11th from 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Meeting Link: 2021 Open Enrollment Meeting
Meeting ID: 938 4782 6269
Passcode: 447265
Phone (for audio or to call in and participate): 888 475 4499 (Toll Free) or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free)
This meeting will be presented by Chase Ambrosia who is ISD 917’s broker for health insurance benefits. Chase will have a presentation to walk through insurance offerings and changes for 2021. After the presentation there will be an open Q&A forum to address questions or concerns you may have.
All eligible employees must complete their online elections no later than midnight on November 23, 2020
2021 Open Enrollment Information, Links and Documents: