Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment is your opportunity to review your current benefit elections and make changes for the new plan year, beginning September 1st. Meetings will be conducted to discuss updates to your benefits package and to assist you with any questions or changes you may need to make.
These meetings will last approximately one hour and 15 minutes, so please plan accordingly. Remember to bring information necessary to add dependents, such as birth dates and social security numbers.
Open Enrollment paperwork is due to HR by August 22nd.
Changes This Year
The Comanche Nation Gaming Commission is committed to offering a comprehensive employee benefits program that helps our employees stay healthy, feel secure and maintain a work-life balance. Therefore, we are making some changes and introducing a new and exciting benefit for the new plan year.
Medical Benefits: Our medical plan sustained a significant increase due to high claims utilization. To continue offering comprehensive benefits at an affordable cost, we are changing our plan’s network to Blue Advantage. Blue Advantage is a smaller network of providers but comes with lower premiums due to deeper negotiated discounts. This means less out of pocket for you, with no change in benefits. Please refer to your Benefits Guide and Summaries of Benefits & Coverage (SBCs) for more detail.
Your Cost Per Paycheck: Our medical premiums are increasing, so you’ll see a change to your cost per pay for this benefit.
No other benefit incurred a rate change; however, you may see a change in your cost per pay for Voluntary Life, Short-term or Long-term Disability, if you advanced to a new age band or had a change in salary.
Benefits Overview
As a full-time employee of the Comanche Nation Gaming Commission, you are eligible for the comprehensive benefits available to you and your family.
Resources Available
Your Benefits Microsite contains all your benefit summaries and additional educational pieces to help you make a decision for this open enrollment.
Please be sure to:
- Review your personal Benefits Statement, included in your open enrollment packet, and report any discrepancies to HR. Note: Your benefits statement might not reflect any recent election changes.
- Review your benefits open enrollment guide, which highlights the comprehensive coverage available to you and your family.
- Refer to your Summaries of Benefits and Coverage, for more benefit details.
How To Enroll and Forms
Be sure to attend one of the in-person presentations to get your enrollment packet.
For currently enrolled Employees, your benefits packet includes your personal Benefits Statement, which reflects your current elections and payroll deductions. Please review for accuracy and report any discrepancies to HR. Your packet also includes your personal benefits enrollment/change form in case you want to make any changes to your current elections.
Note: Your benefits statement and enrollment form might not reflect recent election changes.
For newly benefit eligible Employees, your packet includes a benefits application. Please complete this form and return to HR no later than your 60th day of employment.
Action Required:
This will be a passive open enrollment, which means if you do not take any action during this open enrollment, your current benefit elections will automatically carry over to the new plan year. Paperwork is only required if you are making a change to your current elections.
Your Benefits Application is due to HR, no later than August 22nd at 4:00 p.m.
Medical Benefits
Having access to high quality, affordable health care is a great concern for most people. That’s why we are pleased to offer employees, and their families, comprehensive medical coverage administered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBS).
Your Summary of Benefits & Coverage (SBC) can be found, below.
Dental Benefits
Too often people forget about dental care. That’s unfortunate, because having healthy teeth is an important part of your overall well-being. We are pleased to offer dental benefits administered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Oklahoma.
Your Summary of Benefits can be found, below.
Vision Benefits
Your eyesight is an integral part of your overall health and a key component to safety. Vision benefits are provided through VSP, using the VSP Choice network of providers. VSP’s national network includes both private practice and retail chain providers.
Your Summary of Benefits can be found, below.
Life & Disability Benefits
As your employer, we automatically provide a certain level of life insurance coverage for you and give you the opportunity to purchase additional coverage for you and your dependents.
Employees who wish to supplement their basic life insurance benefit, may purchase additional coverage.
The Supplemental Life/AD&D, Short-term Disability and Long-term Disability benefits are offered on a voluntary basis.
Supplemental Policies (Accident, Cancer, Specified Disease, etc.)
Contact your Aflac Representative for policy and price information, regarding these benefits. They will answer any questions you may have, and take care of enrolling, changing or cancelling your policies.
Your Aflac Representative is Ronda Tharp. She can be reached at 405-320-3694 or Ronda_Tharp@us.aflac.com.
Identity Theft Protection
Norton LifeLock Benefit Plans help protect your identity, online privacy and personal devices.
Identity theft protection and more - for the whole family. You and your family share all kinds of personal, private, and sensitive information online everyday. Your information is valuable to you — and it’s also valuable to cybercriminals.
Norton LifeLock provides comprehensive protection features to help you feel safer in your digital life.
Contact Us
While we are interested and concerned about the health of our employees and their dependents, we have HIPAA Privacy Compliance obligations which limit the information shared with us. NFP is available to assist you with claims issues or any other issues you have concerning our benefits. If you are experiencing a claim issue, please contact Customer Service with the appropriate insurance company, first, to see if you can resolve it on your own. If not, then you need to contact our broker for further assistance.
Client Contacts
Sherry Pueblo
sherryp@comanchegc.com
5804926434