Qualifying Events for Enrollment Changes
You can change your Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, Life/Accidental Death and Dismemberment and the Hyatt Legal Plans benefit elections through the Service Center at Banner Plan Administration if you have a qualifying event (proof may be required). All changes due to a qualifying event must be made within 31 days of the event date and are effective the first day of the month following the event. If the event falls on the first day of the month, your changes will be effective on the event date.
Eligible qualifying events include the following:
- Dependent status – any event which causes your unmarried dependent to satisfy or cease to satisfy eligibility requirements due to age, student status, or similar circumstances under the plan under which you receive coverage.
- Employment status – any event in which employment begins or ends for you or for an eligible dependent; the gain or loss of eligibility due to a change in full-time to part-time status
or vice versa; or the beginning or ending of an unpaid or paid leave of absence. - Legal marital status – any event that changes your legal marital status, including marriage, death of a spouse, divorce, legal separation or annulment.
- Medicare eligible status – you or your spouse/domestic partner become Medicare eligible.
- Number of dependents – any event that changes the number of your dependents, including birth, adoption, placement for adoption, divorce or death of a dependent.
- Residence or work site – any event where you or your eligible dependent transfer place of residence or work site that creates a change in your health plan coverage.
Questions?
If you still have questions, contact the Service Center at Banner Plan Administration by calling (480) 684-7070 in the Phoenix metropolitan area or (800) 827-2464 in all other areas.
