UVA Dental Plan 2024

To be eligible for a UVA Dental Plan, you must be a full- or part-time UVA employee, regularly scheduled to work at least 20 hours/week. To be eligible for dental coverage through UVA, you must be one of the following employee types:

• Faculty
• Classified Staff
• Medical Center Team Members
• Postdoctoral Research Associates
• Senior Professional Research Staff
• University Staff
• Housestaff
• Grant-funded Postdoctoral Fellows

To be added to your UVA Dental Plan, spouses must be legally recognized as a spouse in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

To be added to your UVA Dental Plan, children must be your biological, step, adopted, or foster child, or any child declared a dependent on your federal tax return for whom you are the legal guardian with permanent custody. You must be the legal guardian with permanent custody. Children are eligible to the end of the birth month in which they turn 26.

If children are incapable of self-support, due to mental or physical disability, they can remain on your UVA dental plan beyond age 26 as long as the following requirements are met:

• Required documentation is approved in advance by the benefits claims administrator before the dependent's 26th birthday.
• They are unmarried.
• They live with you 100% of the time.
• They are declared a dependent on your federal tax return.

You may choose from the Basic or Enhanced plans. The tables below show what you pay each month in premiums. Rates have not changed from 2023. 

2024 Monthly Premiums

You receive UVA Basic Dental option coverage at no cost. Dependent enrollment is not automatic, and must be done through Workday upon hire, with a qualified life event, or during the open enrollment period.

You may choose to enroll in the Basic Dental option. Rates have not changed from 2023.

Pre-Medicare retirees will have health insurance options through a private exchange. More details to follow. 

WDA offers step-by-step assistance directly in Workday. You can also review the Open Enrollment Workday Job Aid on the Workday Central webpage (behind NetBadge), "Happening Now" section.

A summary of how to review and elect your benefits in Workday is below:

• Navigate to Workday.
• In your Workday Inbox, click on the message titled "Open Enrollment Change: [Your Name] on 01/01/2024"; click on "Let's Get Started."
• Open Enrollment in Workday is organized into "tiles" for each benefit; you will see two sections, one for Health Care and Accounts, and one for Insurance. Each section has multiple tiles. You will start with Health Care and Accounts.
• You will have three edit options at the bottom of every tile:
  • Manage to make changes to a benefit you already have
  • Enroll to add a new benefit
  • View to see a benefit that is not editable in Workday (more on this further down)
• Select a tile and choose the edit option for that tile.
• Once you've selected or waived a benefit in the Health Care and Accounts section, click on Confirm and Continue -- this will take you to a separate window to select or waive eligible dependents for that benefit. Dependents previously enrolled who are eligible will show up automatically, you just need to select or waive each one of them.
• Click Save to update the benefit tile. This does NOT submit your elections, it just saves the individual benefit tile details you've selected. 
• Repeat the above process for all six Health Care and Accounts tiles.
• Workday now offers you a status update on which benefits you’ve touched: "Reviewed," "Updated" or blank if you haven't touched a benefits tile yet.

• Once you've completed the Health Care and Accounts section, move on to the Insurance section. You will see multiple tiles under Insurance.
• Select a tile and choose the edit option for that tile.
• Please note that some life insurance benefits are VIEWABLE in Workday but not changeable. Each of these tiles will direct you to where you need to go to make changes. Some of these changes may be outside of Workday.​
• Once all your benefits have been reviewed and edited as needed, attach any required documents such as birth certificate for new dependents, then click on Review and Sign -- here you can read the summary of what's you elected.
  • New Basic Health participants: Sign and submit the HSA Terms and Conditions authorization form on the Review and Sign page. This document authorizes Fidelity to open your HSA and is required to receive the 2024 employer contribution.
  • New Dependents: If you added new dependents during Open Enrollment (spouse or children), upload required documentation into Workday. You will see a Spousal Affidavit on the Review and Sign page.
• Click on the I Accept box, then click on Submit to complete your Open Enrollment process.
• Print this page or save it as a PDF.

You can make changes to your elections as long as the Open Enrollment period is open, even after you have submitted your elections.

• From the Benefits app in Workday, click on Change Open Enrollment
• You will be making changes to what has been previously submitted. Any changes made will need to be resubmitted. If you do not resubmit, the changes will be deleted and the previous submission will remain in effect.
• Move through the same tiles to elect or waive coverage.
• Once changes are complete, electronically sign at the bottom of the last page and press the Submit button.
• Print the new confirmation of benefits elections or save as a PDF.

Look for additional tasks in Workday related to your Open Enrollment elections:

• Dependents and Beneficiaries: If you changed your dependents or beneficiaries in Workday, look for possible additional action items in your Workday Inbox.

Detailed information about eligibility for the UVA Health, Dental, and Vision Plans can be found on the Eligibility 2024 webpage. In a nutshell, the Plans are open to:

• UVA Academic and Health System salaried employees, full-time or part-time working at least 20 hours/week, except J visa holders, who are eligible for the UVA J Visa Health Plan
• Spouses of eligible UVA employees (some exception noted on the Eligibility 2024 webpage)
• Children of eligible UVA employees - children (as defined on the Eligibility 2024 webpage) are eligible through their birthday at age 26, or longer if documented to have mental or physical disabilities (see the Eligibility 2024 webpage for more details)

The Basic Health option has some additional requirements; please visit the Eligibility 2024 webpage for those details.

You may want to ask your dentist to submit a predetermination for more expensive procedures or extensive treatment. Typically this would include procedures such as crowns, bridges, removal of wisdom teeth, periodontal treatment, or other high-cost treatments. 

Predetermination Flyer