2024 Plan Changes

Important changes to 2024 benefits

Here's what's new and what's changing for 2024.

New: Critical Illness Insurance

A serious illness can leave you with unexpected expenses. Critical illness insurance, offered by The Standard, will pay you or your covered family member a lump sum following the diagnosis of one of 20 major illnesses, such as cancer, heart attack, and stroke. You can use the funds in any way you choose, including for your medical plan deductibles or coinsurance, or daily expenses such as rent or groceries—whatever you need most while you recover.

Other benefits include:

  • It pays you $100 per year for proactively maintaining your health.You and your covered family members can each receive a $100 incentive once per year when you receive one of 22 covered health screening tests, such as a mammogram, lipid panel, mental health assessment, or colonoscopy.
  • Enrolling is easy. Enroll yourself and your spouse in coverage without submitting a medical history statement. Children are covered automatically at no additional cost.

Coverage levels:

  • Employee: $10,000 – $50,000 in increments of $10,000
  • Spouse: $5,000 – $25,000 in increments of $5,000 (cannot exceed 50% of employee benefit)
  • Children through age 25: Automatically covered at 50% of employee’s coverage

Learn more about this new plan

Medical Coverage

All Medical Plans

    • There will be an overall 3.5% increase in employee contributions for medical coverage across all salary bands and coverage levels. Additionally, the lowest three salary bands will be adjusted for 2024. View the plan premiums page for a full list of 2024 premiums.
    • The monthly tobacco-free premium reduction will be reduced to $15 for the employee or spouse, or $30 for both.
    • New CVS Caremark partnership with GoodRx. With the Caremark Cost Saver program, IU medical plan members will have automatic access to GoodRx prescription pricing, which allows you to pay lower costs, when available, on generic medications. No action or separate registration is required to participate - simply present your Anthem ID card at your preferred network pharmacy. The amount paid will be automatically applied to your deductible and out-of-pocket maximum.

Anthem PPO HDHP

    • All members will be issued a new ID card with updated deductible and out-of-pocket maximum amounts that must be used starting January 1, 2024.
    • In-network: Deductibles will increase to $1,900 / employee-only coverage and $3,800 / all other coverage levels. Out-of-pocket maximums will increase to $3,800 / employee-only coverage and $7,600 / all other coverage levels.
    • Out-of-network: Deductibles will increase to $3,800 / employee-only coverage and $7,600 / all other coverage levels. Out-of-pocket maximums will increase to $7,600 / employee-only coverage and $15,200 / all other coverage levels.

Anthem PPO $500 Deductible

    • In-network: Out-of-pocket maximum for prescriptions will increase to $7,050 / individual and $11,700 / family.

Supplemental AD&D

No plan or premium changes.

Dental Coverage

  • No plan or premium changes. All salary bands will be adjusted for 2024. View the plan premiums page for a full list of 2024 premiums.

Health Savings Account (HSA)

  • The annual IRS contribution maximum will increase to $4,150 for employee-only coverage and $8,300 for all other coverage levels. The age 55 & older $1,000 catch-up contribution remains the same.
  • The university’s annual HSA contribution will remain at $1,300 for employee-only coverage and $2,600 for all other coverage levels. However, the deposit schedule for IU's contribution will change from annual to biannual. This means that members will receive half of IU's contribution in January, and the other half in July. Employee contributions will continue to be deposited with each paycheck.

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Healthcare FSA

  • The annual contribution maximum will increase to $3,050 per individual.
  • The annual carryover limit will increase to $610.

Dependent Care FSA

  • No plan changes.

Are you a resident, retiree, or COBRA participant? Find Open Enrollment details for your group.