Collin County Community College District (Collin College)

 
HOW TO...

...Obtain your Collin College Faculty/Staff ID card
...Find a network health care provider in your insurance plan
...Change your Primary Care Physician (PCP)
...Make changes to your insurance
...Apply for coverage through the EOI process
...Change your address with Collin College, ERS, TRS/ORP
...Change your beneficiary(ies) with ERS, TRS/ORP
...Change your name with Collin College, ERS, TRS/ORP

...Start a TDA (Tax Deferred Annuity/Investment) 403(b)
   account

...Stop or change your TDA (Tax Deferred Annuity/Investment)
   contribution
...Start a DCP (Deferred Compensation Plan) 457
...Get help with GroupWise e-mail system
...Get help with other computer issues

...Obtain your Collin College Faculty/Staff ID card

Visit the Student Life Office at SCC, CPC, or PRC.  Present your driver license or other valid picture ID.  As long as you are set up on payroll, which usually occurs about 10 days before your first paycheck, you will be able to obtain the card.  Otherwise, wait until after you receive your first paycheck.

...Find a network health care provider in your insurance plan

For HealthSelect network providers, go to www.bcbstx.com/hs.  For health and dental providers, start at the ERS website at www.ers.state.tx.us, then click on "Links", then "Health and Dental Carriers", then "Provider Directory" under the appropriate carrier.  To designate your Primary Care Physician (PCP) for your health plan for the first time, complete a Primary Care Physician Form (a.k.a. GBP Supplemental Info. Form) and send the original via campus mail to Human Resources.  After the initial designation, you can simply call the insurance company to change your PCP.  You can go directly to a network eye provider for an annual eye exam, and you can go directly to a network OB/GYN for an annual well-woman exam.  All other specialist visits require a referral from your PCP in order to receive network benefits.

Evidence of insurability (EOI) is an application process in which you provide medical information regarding the condition of your health.  EOI may be required to enroll in, add dependents to or increase some insurance coverages.

EOI is required when:

• You enroll in Optional Term Life Elections III and IV at anytime;

• You enroll in Optional Term Life Elections I and II after your first 30 days of employment;

• You initially apply for enrollment in Optional Term Life as a retiree or after your first 30 days of retirement;

• You enroll in Disability Income coverage (either short- or long-term) after your first 30 days of employment;

• You enroll in or add dependents to Dependent Term Life after your first 30 days of employment or retirement, or after your dependent's first 30 days as an eligible dependent; and

• You enroll in or add dependents to HealthSelect coverage after your first 30 days of employment or retirement, or after your dependent's first 30 days as an eligible dependent, except when you are enrolling in HealthSelect during Summer Enrollment and no other plan such as an HMO is available to you and your dependents.  Note: If you waived/declined health coverage on yourself as a new employee, EOI will always be required to enroll after your first 30 days of employment, even during Summer Enrollment.

EOI is not required when:

• You enroll in Optional Term Life Elections I and II during your first 30 days of employment;

• You enroll in Disability Income coverage during your first 30 days;

• You enroll in or add dependents to Dependent Term Life during your first 30 days or during your dependent's first 30 days as an eligible dependent;

• You enroll in or add dependents to HealthSelect coverage during your first 30 days of employment or during your first 30 days of retirement, in which case you must qualify for retiree insurance,

• You add a dependent to your HealthSelect coverage during his/her first 30 days as an eligible dependent,

• You enroll dependents in HealthSelect because there is no HMO available during Summer Enrollment,

• You add children due to their approval for the State Kids Insurance Program (SKIP),

• You enroll in or increase your Voluntary Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage; and

• You enroll in or add dependents to dental coverage.

You must complete the EOI application either within 30 days of the Qualifying Life Event that allowed you to apply for the coverage or within the dates of the Summer Enrollment period.