Medical Insurance
HealthSelect, which is administered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, provides you and your family with comprehensive benefits and access to the largest network of physicians and hospitals in Texas. HealthSelect offers you the greatest freedom of choice of any of your health care options. With two levels of benefits available to you, network and non-network, you determine your level of benefits by your choice of physicians, each time you receive care!
The State of Texas pays the health insurance premiums for full-time employees and half of the premiums for their dependents. If you are a full-time employee, working at a job where your regular schedule is 40 hours or more per week, you will automatically be enrolled in HealthSelect. If you are regularly scheduled to work less than 40 hours, you can select health coverage for you and your dependents, but you will not be automatically enrolled. The State pays half of the premiums for part-time state employees and 25% of their dependents’ premium costs.
If you are new to state employment, you will become eligible for health insurance on the first day of the month following your first 90 days of employment. (For example, if you begin employment on October
19, 2009, you will be eligible for health insurance on February 1, 2010.)
If you have transferred from another agency or institution with no break in coverage, or if you were covered as a dependent or on COBRA in the GBP, you may continue participation and not have a 90-day wait. You have 30 days to make health coverage changes.
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