Washington and Lee University’s annual enrollment for employee benefits will be held from April 12th through April 30th. Annual enrollment is your once-a-year opportunity to make changes to your benefit plans. Elections made during this annual enrollment period will take effect July 1, 2021.
Highlights of the July 2021 – June 2022 Plan Year:
Good news! There will be no change to the Aetna medical plans for the July 2021 plan year. You will continue to have the option to enroll in either the Aetna Choice POS II or Aetna Choice POS II Carilion plans. In addition, there will be no change to the paycheck contributions for either of the Aetna plans!
New for July 2021! Express Scripts will be our pharmacy vendor. When you enroll in an Aetna medical plan you automatically receive prescription drug benefits through Express Scripts.
You have the option of electing voluntary vision benefits through the UniView vision plan. For the July 2021 plan year, there will be no change to the premiums or covered benefits under this program.
The United Concordia dental plans will continue to be offered for the July 2021 plan year. You have the option to enroll in either the Core Dental Plan or the Buy-Up Dental Plan. For the July 2021 plan year, there will be no change to the premiums or covered benefits under either of the dental plans.
Washington and Lee University offers you the option of setting up a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and setting aside money from your paycheck on a pre-tax basis to pay for eligible expenses. For the 2021-2022 plan year, you can contribute up to $2,750 to a Health Care FSA and up to $5,000 to a Dependent Care FSA.
W&L offers these additional benefits:
See the information below and your 2021 benefits guidebook for more details.
The deadline to make your benefit elections for the plan year beginning July 1st is April 30, 2021.
Annual enrollment is your opportunity to make benefit elections for the July 2021 – June 2022 plan year. Per IRS rules, employees enrolled in pre-tax benefit plans may only make changes to their benefits once per year during the annual enrollment period. Outside of the annual enrollment period, you may only make changes if you experience a “qualifying life event” such as marriage, birth of a child, loss of dependent status, etc. During annual enrollment, you may:
This year, benefit elections will be made on our Workday portal. Beginning April 12th, you can log into Workday using the link below.
When you are in the Workday website, please also consider increasing your retirement contribution at this time.
Medical
Aetna
1-888-862-0171
Prescription Drug
Express Scripts
1-866-832-9250
http://www.express-scripts.com
Vision
UniView
1-888-884-8428
Dental
United Concordia
1-800-332-0366
Flexible Spending Account
Flexible Benefit Administrator
1-800-437-3539
https://fba.wealthcareportal.com
Advocacy
Health Advocate
1-866-695-8622
https://members.healthadvocate.com
ID Theft Protection
LifeLock
1-866-917-2555
http://wlu.excelsiorenroll.com
Employee Assistance Program
Carilion EAP
1-800-992-1931
http://www.carilionclinic.org/eap
Human Resources
540-458-8920
