2022 Benefits Open Enrollment Starts October 20

10/07/2021

Open Enrollment for our Saint Louis University 2022 benefit plans is from Wednesday, Oct. 20 through Friday, Nov. 5. Open enrollment is an annual opportunity to review and make changes to your benefit elections.

With advances in both medical treatments and prescription drugs, health care costs in the United States and the St. Louis area continue to rise faster than general inflation. The University continues to seek opportunities to provide a competitive plan while controlling plan costs and minimizing the healthcare costs paid by our faculty and staff. As part of our process, we regularly compare our employee contribution rates and plan design to ensure that our plan is competitive with other higher education institutions, healthcare organizations and local employers. This year, as in past years, plan changes were focused on ensuring the University continues to cover 75% of the plan’s total cost with the remaining 25% covered through employee contributions.

We will continue to offer health insurance plans with no monthly premium contribution to employees who make less than $39,275. Keeping health insurance affordable for these valuable members of our community is consistently identified as a top priority by many faculty, staff and administrators. Additionally, to remain in line with our efforts to provide affordable medical care, a new higher tiered premium level is being implemented for those faculty and staff that earn $200,000 or more annually.

Plan Design Changes

Employee Medical Plan contribution rates will increase for 2022. You may view all the premium contribution amounts by clicking here.
Plus Plan and QHDHP plan design changes. Co-pays and coinsurance amounts will remain flat, but there will be increases to deductibles and out of pocket maximums. Adherence to new Express Scripts pharmacy programs will be required to receive the maximum prescription benefits. Click here to access a quick view of the 2022 Medical Plans.
Tier 1 Benefits. The University is continuing to offer enhanced medical benefits to reduce your out-of-pocket expenses when accessing a Tier 1(SLUCare/SSM) provider.
LTD premium increase. A minimal premium increase will apply as of January 1, 2022, for long-term disability benefits. For example, if you earn $50,000, your monthly premium will go from $2.92 to $3.21.

Wellness Premium Discount

Biometric screening is a pillar of the University’s wellness program and is typically required to receive the wellness premium discount each year. This year, SLU will only require the biometric screening. We believe that this is an important part of the annual screening process because it helps to identify major health risks before they cause issues.
Details on how to schedule a biometric screening through our biometric screening provider, Quest, were provided on Sept. 1.

Virtual Open Enrollment Meetings

If you would like to learn more about annual enrollment, please plan on participating in an Open Enrollment Webinar. Links to register to the webinars are below.

Open Enrollment in Workday

This will be the University’s second Open Enrollment in Workday. Detailed job aids are available to guide employees through the enrollment process. To prepare for the open enrollment period, we recommend that all employees review their dependents and add any new dependents to their profiles. Dependent verification documents will be required for any new dependents added. Employees can do this by following the open enrollment job aid.

More Information Coming

Finally, you will receive an open enrollment guide with additional information on the University’s 2022 benefit offerings in mid-October. Alex your personal virtual benefits counselor/assistant will be available for additional help beginning Thursday, Oct. 14.

We sincerely appreciate your contributions to the University and hope you will participate in the upcoming Virtual Open Enrollment Meetings.

Sincerely,

Mickey Luna
Vice President, Human Resources