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Health Care Facilitator Program

Your Health Care Facilitator Program specializes in troubleshooting the use of UC health plans—and coordinating them with Medicare

Open Enrollment for 2025 starts on Halloween

UC health plans will be open for enrollment 10/31–11/22/2024 this year and Open Enrollment packets should arrive during the last week of October. Our presentations UC Medical Plan Overview (for employees) and UC Retiree Medical Plans (for retirees) will be updated with 2025 information no later than the first week of Open Enrollment.

Rates and other details will not be available until late in October, but this announcement by systemwide HR Vice President Cheryl Lloyd provides a preview. See also Important benefit plan changes. Additional FAQs can be found on UCnet.

2024 UC Medical Plans

Employee Open Enrollment ended at 5 p.m. PST on Friday, 11/17/2023. Retiree Open Enrollment ended at 5 p.m. PST on Monday, 11/27/2023.

Even though enrollment is no longer open, the HCF Program is here to help you with video explanations of the plans, rate calculating tools for retirees, a tool that shows medical plan availability across California and beyond, and more:

How much? Medical plan premiums for 2024:

Where? Regional medical plan availability:

The 2024 UC Medical Plan Availability Tool [Excel] indicates plan availability by ZIP code and county.

Which? Compare medical plans side-by-side:

Who? Local Davis/Sacramento medical provider availability by plan:

Who else? Search for network providers across California and beyond:

  • Anthem Blue Cross PPOs:
    • CORE
    • UC Health Savings Plan
    • UC Care
      • This plan offers two levels of in-network providers: UC Select (Tier 1) and Anthem Preferred (Tier 2). Both are preferred providers, but UC Select providers are located near UC locations and cost you much less.
      • If a provider appears as both UC Select and Anthem Preferred, then the provider uses multiple tax ID numbers for billing. To determine whether your claim with that provider will be processed at the more desirable UC Select tier, be sure to call the number on your ID card to speak to an Accolade Health Care Advocate, who will check with the provider and attempt to determine which tax ID will be used for billing.
    • Preferred providers outside the U.S.A.
      • CORE/UC Health Savings Plan members use code QUC to search
      • UC Care members use code VUC to search
      • UC Medicare PPO/UC High Option members use code U5X to search
    • UC Medicare PPO, UC High Option
  • Health Net: UC Blue & Gold HMO (Urban CA only.)
  • Kaiser Permanente/Senior Advantage (HMO) (Urban CA only.)
  • UnitedHealthcare: UC Medicare Choice (Medicare Advantage PPO)

How to get more information? UCnet health plan phone numbers and web addresses

Open Enrollment booklets

UC considers changes to retiree health contributions
 

A Retiree Health Benefits Working Group has been formed to provide input regarding reductions and/or changes in strategy toward UC's contributions to retiree health coverage.

See the UC Davis Retiree Center site for updates on the Working Group.

UC simplifies retiree health benefits rules
 

To simplify administration and respond to the concerns of newer employees hired before 7/1/2013, UC changed the eligibility rules for retiree health benefits.

Did You Know?

Most of the medical plans that the university offers to employees and retirees cover 30-day supplies of prescription drugs for a flat copayment. However, if you take medications on an ongoing basis, you can save money by using University of California pharmacies. At UC pharmacies, you can get 90-day supplies of your drugs for two copayments — you pay 1/3 less!

If you are enrolled in some of the Anthem Blue Cross plans (UC Care, UC High Option, UC Medicare PPO); UC Blue & Gold HMO (Health Net) or UC Medicare Choice (UnitedHealthcare):

  • UC Davis outpatient pharmacies (in Davis and Sacramento).

  • Don't live near a UC pharmacy? You can get the same two co-payment deal for 90-day supplies through some plans at certain local retail pharmacies and/or through your plan's mail order pharmacy.

    • UC Blue & Gold HMO (Health Net): Local CVS pharmacies

    • UC Care (Anthem Blue Cross): Local Costco, CVS, Safeway/Vons, Walgreens, and Walmart pharmacies

    • UC High Option (Anthem Blue Cross): Local Costco, CVS, Safeway/Vons, Walgreens, and Walmart pharmacies

    • UC Medicare PPO (Anthem Blue Cross): Local Costco, CVS, Safeway/Vons, Walgreens, and Walmart pharmacies

    • UC Medicare Choice (UnitedHealthcare): Local Costco, CVS, Rite Aid, Safeway, Target, Walmart, and Walgreens pharmacies

Click here for medical plan contact information. Log on to your plan's website as a member to access links to their mail order pharmacy programs.