This job aid shows employees who have access to full employee self-service how to enroll in medical, dental and vision during Open Enrollment.

This job aid shows you how to change your benefits. If you are satisfied with your current benefits, and your employment status is not changing, you do not need to participate in Open Enrollment. Your existing benefits will be renewed for the next year except for HCRA and DCRA, healthcare and dependent care reimbursement accounts, which must be re-enrolled each year).

Use this procedure if you want to change your Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits. These benefit options have similar page layouts and procedures. If you are enrolled in a medical or dental flex cash plan, first waive that option.

Step 1. On the Benefits Enrollment page, click a tile to open enrollment options for that benefit.

Step 2. Enroll dependents as needed.

STOP: If you need to add a dependent that is not shown in the Dependents list, stop this procedure now and go to Add Dependents. You can come back to this step after your dependents are added. If you have no more dependents, continue on to step 3.

Step 3. Optional: Review your options.

1. Open the ESS Handbook Medical to see CSU Employee resources information on a separate browser tab. You can close this tab when you finish reading the information.
2. Click the Information icon  for a short overview of benefit plan and costs.
3. Click Overview of All Plans to open a cost breakdown of all plans for comparison.

• The costs on this page include the dependents that are enrolled.
• If you elected to see After Tax Costs, you can see both Before Tax plans and After Tax plans.
• If you want to see After Tax Cost plans, contact your Benefits office.

Step 4. Select a benefit option.

Step 5. Click Done.  

Step 6. Confirm that your benefit status is changed.

What to do next:

• Repeat this procedure if you need to change options for Dental or Vision plans.
• Optional: Enroll in Flex Spending benefits.
• Submit your enrollment options.

Step 7. Manage Dental plan enrollment.

Repeat the procedure: Benefit Enrollment: Medical, Dental, Vision to enroll or remove dependents from your Dental plan.

• Note that you cannot waive your vision plan.

• Start Open Enrollment
• Add Dependents: Open Enrollment
• Flex Cash Benefits (Medical/Dental): Open Enrollment
• Health Care reimbursement Acccount (HCRA): Open Enrollment
• Dependent Care reimbursement Acccount (DCRA) : Open Enrollment
• Submit, Authorize and complete Open Enrollment Options
• Print Benefits Enrollment Preview and Confirmation Statement

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