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All about Your Health & Life Insurance
Welcome to the UN Health and Life Insurance Section (HLIS) website. We aim to provide you with comprehensive information about UNHQ-administered health and life insurance, including the onboarding process, plan maintenance, and transition after retirement.
As participants in the self-funded UNHQ-administered health plans, it is our shared responsibility to ensure the sustainability of these plans, which are funded by both participants and Member States. This website is designed to keep staff members and retirees fully informed about insurance benefits and ways to help reduce costs. You will find a wealth of reference material here, including guidance from Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), insurance rate simulators, checklists, brochures, forms, updates, and various Toolkit pages tailored to the specific needs of our more than 200,000 plan participants worldwide.
For personal questions regarding health and life insurance plans, HLIS offers in-person client services on Tuesdays from 9 am to 12:30 pm and Thursdays from 12 pm to 3:30 pm. The UN Health and Life Insurance Section is located on the 3rd floor of the FF building (304 E 45th St, New York). Clients are seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Please have your UN index number ready for registration with the UN HLIS Client Services.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HLIS IN-PERSON CLIENT SERVICES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE DURING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL WEEK, 23-30 SEPTEMBER 2024.
Enjoy your learning journey!
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Events
2024 Annual Enrolment Campaign
The Annual Enrolment Campaign for the UNHQ-administered health insurance program takes place in June 2024. Find more information about this campaign here.
UN MIP information sessions
HLIS and Cigna organized four MIP information sessions in April 2024. Find the recordings and slide decks here.
ActiveHealth lunch and learn: join one of the monthly wellness webinars
Register to one of the 2024 monthly wellness webinars and learn how to improve your health and wellbeing. Find more information and register here.
Important Updates
Aetna Contract Negotiation with Mount Sinai Health System
Aetna is currently in discussions with Mount Sinai Health System to keep them in their care provider network beyond October 15th, 2024.
Anthem Contract Negotiation with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)
Anthem is currently in discussions with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to keep them in their care provider network through 2025 and beyond. Please find more information here.
Cigna International goes green by shifting to Electronic Membership Cards effective 1 April 2024
Going forward, Cigna International will go green by replacing plastic membership cards for both UN MIP and UN WWP members by an electronic version of the Cigna membership card on Cigna’s personal webpages and the Cigna Health Benefits App. Please find more information here.
UNJSPF announced a cost-of-living adjustment of 3.4% effective 1 April 2024
In accordance with the UNJSPF Pension adjustment system and based on CPI (consumer price index) data from the Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) published by the UN Statistics Division, there will be a 3.4 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to the US dollar track of periodic benefits for this year, effective 1 April 2024. Since COLA was only updated in Umoja end of April 2024, UN MIP ASHI subscribers will start seeing the impact in May 2024. Please find more information here.
After Service Health Insurance (ASHI) Tax Statements
The ASHI Tax Statements will be sent out to ASHI participants by end of February 2024. Please find more information here.
Empire is now Anthem
As of January 1, 2024, the Empire BlueCross BlueShield and Empire BlueCross names are Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Anthem Blue Cross. This will not impact your coverage, access to care, or level of support. Please find more information here.
2024 Medicare Part B Standard Premium
The Health and Life Insurance Section wishes to inform all Medicare B participants that effective 1 January 2024 the monthly Medicare Part B Standard Premium is $174.70. Please find more information here.
Health in the News
World Health Organization (WHO)
Health information provided by the World Health Organization (WHO)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Health information provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
NYC Health
Health information provided by New York City Health
