Linda Gunter
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.9 ways to reduce your health care costs in 2022
Nationwide, the cost of everything is rising, and UAB is working to balance the impact of these costs on its employees and the organization. Here are some things you can do to reduce your out-of-pocket expenses.
Premium rates for health, dental and vision available for 2022
For the second year, UAB employees will be offered premiums that are mostly flat or decreased.
Vision coverage from VSP is available during open enrollment
UAB offers vision benefits, and eligible employees of UAB, UAB Hospital and UAB Hospital Management LLC will have the option to choose or decline that coverage during the open enrollment for benefits Oct. 22-Nov. 8.
Dental coverage from BCBS is available during open enrollment
UAB will offer dental insurance during the annual open enrollment for benefits, and eligible employees must choose or decline that coverage between 7 a.m. Oct. 22 and 5 p.m. Nov. 8.
Why are our COVID safety strategies different than fall 2020?
Why have we changed our safety strategies in the past year? In one word: data. We didn’t know then what we know now. Here are five things to consider.
3 traditional health plan options available for 2022
UAB’s medical plans offer one plan design change for 2022: coverage for infertility treatment.
Here’s your chance to meet the candidates for vice provost
Four candidates for the new role of vice provost for graduate and international education will make Zoom presentations to campus starting Oct. 5.
Faculty and staff to get extra holidays at year’s end
UAB and UAB Medicine also will observe Dec. 23 and Dec. 30 as holidays to provide employees additional time to spend with their families and friends.
Consumer-driven health plan continues to gain favor among employees
Viva Choice — UAB’s consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) — is an alternative to traditional Viva and Blue Cross health care plans offered to eligible employees of UAB, UAB Hospital and UAB Hospital Management LLC during the annual open enrollment for benefits Oct. 22-Nov. 8.
It's no surprise this renowned researcher has teaching on the brain
Neurobiology Professor Robin Lester, Ph.D., winner of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award/UAB NAS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching, has distinguished himself at the bench and in the classroom.
