Health
Care Benefits & Long Term Care
Employee
Benefits Handbook
December, 2007
Introduction
and Table of Contents
As
a State of Ohio employee, you are eligible to receive many benefits to
help provide financial and emotional assistance to you and your family
in the event of illness, injury, disability and death.
It
is important for you to understand what health care benefits you are eligible
to receive, how they work and how to claim them. One way you can do that
is by taking the time to carefully review this booklet. It provides details
on all your health and long term care benefits and how to use them.
For
more information about your benefits, and in addition to this booklet,
you may want to review the following:
Please
call your plan (click here for important phone numbers
and Web links) or talk to your personnel or payroll officer if you
have any questions about your benefits.
NOTICE: Any person who, with intent to defraud or knowing that he or she is facilitating a fraud against an insurer, submits an application or files a claim containing a false or deceptive statement is guilty of insurance fraud. (Ohio Revised Code Section 3999.21)
Please be aware that participation in the plan by you and your dependents is voluntary, and that it is a condition of participation in the plan that the State of Ohio, its contractors, subcontractors, other insurance plans and processing organizations, and any medical provider who may render service to you, may exchange your claims data in the course of processing your claims or providing plan services. Further, by agreeing to be covered by this plan you acknowledge the requirement that your Social Security numbers will be used as identifiers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
SECTION
ONE
SECTION
TWO
SECTION
THREE
SECTION
FOUR
SECTION
FIVE
GLOSSARY
HEALTH BENEFITS PHONE NUMBERS AND WEB ADDRESSES
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