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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.
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Events
2025 Annual Enrolment Campaign
The Annual Enrolment Campaign for the UNHQ-administered health insurance program takes place in June 2025. Find more information about this campaign here.
Important Updates
Closure of walk-in Client Services during the Holidays
Please be advised that the Health and Life Insurance Section will be closed to walk-in clients from December 25 to January 1st. Walk-in services will resume on 6 January 2026.
2026 Medicare Part B Standard Premium
The Health and Life Insurance Section wishes to inform all Medicare B participants that effective 1 January 2026 the monthly Medicare Part B Standard Premium will be increased from $185.00 to $202.90. Please find more information here.
Anthem BCBS Contract Negotiation with Mount Sinai Health System
Anthem BCBS is in active negotiations with Mount Sinai Health System to keep them in their care provider network beyond 1 January 2026. Please find more information here.
UNJSPF announced a cost-of-living adjustment of 2.8% effective 1 April 2025
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 2.8 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to the US dollar track of periodic benefits for this year, effective 1 April 2025. 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
