Annual Enrollment: Learn More About Discounted UC Health Co-Pays
UC employees will continue to receive a 50 percent office visit co-payment discount when seeing University of Cincinnati physicians. Additionally, your co-insurance responsibility for the PPO and HDHP plans will be 5 percent rather than 10 percent when receiving covered services from University of Cincinnati physicians and UC Health hospitals.
UC Health hospitals are UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, and the Daniel Drake Center for Post-Acute Care their affiliate institutes, centers of excellence, outpatient locations and laboratory services.
The co-pay reduction applies at the time of the visit. The co-insurance reduction will apply after the health plans deductible is met. Outpatient mental health services will not be reduced for co-payment or co-insurance and there is no co-payment reduction for emergency department services. More information can be found
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Learn More About UCs Benefit Plans!
Informational sessions are being held on a number of dates and locations this month. Individual sessions are also available. Go to this link for additional information: www.uc.edu/hr/benefits/annual-enrollment.html.
Participate in a live seminar to learn more about UCs PPO and HDHP medical plans on Wednesday, November 18 from 8 am 9 am. Please the annual enrollment website under Meetings and Resources for additional information.
Another live webinar will be held on Thursday, November 19 from noon to 1 PM.
Learn about UCs medical plans by listening to a recorded webinar. For more information, go to the
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