Welcome to Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment is October 11-31, 2023. Choose your benefits for 2024!

Open Enrollment is your once-a-year opportunity to elect or make changes to certain benefits without a qualify life event.  You can make changes to:  Medical, Dental, Dependent Care Flexible Spending, Legal, Critical Illness, or Accident Insurance.  Also, this is your opportunity, if eligible, to elect your employee Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution amount for the upcoming year (if no HSA election is made, default is $0.00).

Whether you choose to keep or change your current benefits, review the sections below to find out which benefits you will need to elect during Open Enrollment.

Open Enrollment is October 11-31, 2023

Click here for details on how to register and elect your benefits via ADP.

During Open Enrollment, you can:

  • Elect your personal HSA contributions via payroll deduction to begin in January.  You must reelect your contribution each year.
  • Do nothing and keep your benefits the same.
  • Enroll in or change your medical and/or dental coverage.
  • Add or remove dependents on your plans.
  • Elect or cancel legal insurance, critical illness, or accident insurance.
  • Elect a Dependent Care FSA (if eligible) and set your annual contribution amount.
  • Elect the New Voluntary Benefit — Whole Life Insurance with an Accelerated Death Benefit for Long Term Care.

Whether you choose to keep or change your current benefits, review the sections below to find out which benefits you will need to elect during Open Enrollment.

ORNL Benefits & Wellness Fair

Attend to learn about your benefits and ask questions of representatives from UnitedHealthcare, Optum, Rally, Express Scripts, the WellOne Clinic, and the ORNL Benefits team.

October 19, 10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Main Cafeteria (Building 5200), Main Street (Building 5700), and the Tennessee Rooms A & B (Building 5200).

Information Sessions for New Whole Life with Long Term Care Benefits 

In person in the Wigner Auditorium (Bldg. 4500N) and virtual (see ORNL Today for virtual links): 

  • Tuesday, Oct. 10 @ 1:30 p.m.
  • Wednesday, Oct. 11 @ 9:00 a.m.
  • Wednesday, Oct. 18 @ 9:00 a.m. 
You can also visit with an Enrollment Counselor: 
  • Main Street: Oct. 12, 16, 17, 18 & 20 from 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 
  • Cafeteria: Oct. 11, 12, 16, 17, 18 & 20 from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. 

Benefits Overview