New Hires, Making Changes and Eligibility

Are You a New Employee?

Welcome! As a HIMSS employee, your benefits are an important component of your Total Rewards package.

It’s important that you review our benefit options to ensure you are choosing the benefits that support you and your family’s mental, physical and professional wellbeing needs. Please review this Total Rewards website carefully and challenge yourself to make sure you are choosing the right benefits for you and your family. Then make your elections before the deadline.

New Hire Enrollment Checklist

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Evaluate the medical plan and dental plan options and view the 2025 Benefits Guide.

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You’ll be able to review premiums when you enroll through ADP.

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Estimate your health care spending from the previous 12 months and estimate how much you’ll need to contribute to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA) through the remainder of this calendar year. To participate in the HSA, you must be enrolled in the BCBS High Deductible PPO medical plan.
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Gather this information before you enroll:

  • Your HIMSS UserID and password
  • Social Security numbers, addresses and dates of birth for covered dependents or beneficiaries
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To enroll, log in to ADP. Please elect or waive each benefit. Please elect or waive benefit coverages, as well as, assign beneficiaries when prompted.

Enroll NOW

Questions

If you have any questions about your benefits choices or about how to enroll, please reach out to Human Resources to get the answers you need. Then you’ll be sure to have the benefits you need for the year ahead.

Email: [email protected]

Act Within 30 Days 

You must enroll for benefits within 30 days of your hire date to have coverage for yourself and any eligible family members.

Need to Make Changes Due to a Qualified Life Event?

Generally, you may only change your benefit elections during the Open Enrollment period. However, since life happens, you also may change your benefit elections during the year if you experience a Qualified Life Event such as:

  • Marriage, divorce or legal separation
  • Birth or adoption of a child
  • Loss or gain of other coverage by the employee or dependent
  • Eligibility for Medicare or Medicaid
Reach out to Make Changes

Act Within 30 Days 

You have 30 days from the Qualified Life Event to make changes to your coverage. Depending on the type of event, you may need to provide proof of the event, such as a COBRA notification, marriage license. If you do not make the changes within 30 days of the qualified event, you will have to wait until the next Open Enrollment period to make changes (unless you experience another Qualified Life Event).

Eligibility

If you are a regular full-time employee who works at least 30 hours per week, you are eligible for benefits. Most of your benefits are effective on the first day of the month following your date of hire. You may also enroll your eligible dependents for coverage.

This includes the following:

  • Your legal spouse or domestic partner
  • Children under the age of 26, regardless of student, dependency or marital status

When Coverage Ends

Coverage in the medical, dental and vision plans ends at 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the month in which your employment ends. All other plan coverages end at 11:59 p.m. on your last day of employment except as otherwise indicated in this summary.