Marriage

To enroll your spouse for coverage you will need to submit a request and provide a copy of your marriage certificate. Based on the health plan in which you are enrolled there are specific rules about how much time you have to add your new spouse. If you are covered as an active employee under the UVa Health Plan(Aetna) you must submit an online request in Benefits@ for Academic employees or an application for Medical Center employees. To add the spouse the request must be received within the same plan year as the date of the marriage. Coverage is effective the first of the month following receipt of the application. If you are covered under the Postdoc/Housestaff plan, you have 31 days to add your spouse. If you are a Retiree or a COBRA member on the UVA Health Plan, you have 31 days to submit the application for a mid year qualifying event, such as marriage.

You may not change your health care program type at this time; you'll need to wait until the Open Enrollment period to do that.

When Coverage Begins

As long as you submit a request/application to add your spouse within the required timeframe of your plan, coverage for your new spouse will be effective the first of the month following the receipt of the application by the Office of Employee Benefits. If the request/application is not submitted to the Office of Employee Benefits within the timeframe above, the spouse cannot be added until the next open enrollment.

Other Benefits to Consider

As a result of your marriage you may also be able to make changes to some of your other benefits. For a marriage mid year qualifying event, you can enroll yourself, as well as any eligible dependents not already on your policy within the timeframes listed above for each health plan. The coverage is effective the first of the month following receipt of the enrollment application at the University Human Resources Benefits division as long as it is submitted within the designated timeframes. Please note that when a UVA Health plan member changes policy numbers within the same year, the annual deductibles and lifetime maximum counters are reset to zero.

Contact the Office of Employee Benefits for information about the following:

• Dependent Group Life Insurance

• Beneficiary Designations

• Medical and Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts