Under the 2008-2011 contract MSU will contribute $2100 towards the cost of GA’s who wish to enroll a dependent, spouse or Other Eligible Individual (OEI.)
ELIGIBLE FOR DEPENDENT COVERAGE ARE:
- Your spouse, who must be living with you.
- Dependent children under 19 years old (under 23 years old if still a full-time student), living with you, and not self-supporting and
- Other Eligible Individual (OEI): This is someone who lives with you and has for the last 18 months and is not a dependent, child, descendant, parent, parent’s descendant, grandparent, grandparent’s descendant, renter or tenant. If you would like to enroll an OEI but are uncertain if the person is eligible, visit www.hr.msu.edu/HRsite/Benefits/FacStaff/OEI.
*Note that only one (1) spouse OR OEI is eligible for coverage. If you are a TA with health insurance through MSU, your dependent(s) are eligible for health insurance through MSU only while you are covered.
You must enroll all dependents online at www.aetnastudenthealth.com/msudirect.htm. We recommend that you initially enroll your dependent(s) using the computers in the Human Resources Benefit Office in the Nisbet Building (1407 S. Harrison Rd., Suite 140A) where there are people to assist you. Each dependent must be re-enrolled either quarterly or semiannually. The enrollment deadline for each coverage period is the first effective date of coverage (e.g. for a dependent to be covered for the fall quarter, he or she must be enrolled by 8/15/08). Coverage dates and premium rates can be found in your Student Health Insurance Plan Brochure or online at www.aetnastudenthealth.com/msudirect.htm.
Spouses and OEI must go to Olin first before going to any other doctor or treatment facility UNLESS it is an emergency or you are more than 45 miles from the MSU East Lansing campus.
Dependent children cannot go to Olin and should instead use the MSU Health Team. For more information visit www.healthteam.msu.edu or call the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic at 517-353-3003 or 517-342-6413.
Aetna Student Health will give a thirty (30) day written notice before dependent health care coverage is terminated.
If you have any questions, you can contact the GEU’s Health Care Advocates Committee at hcadvocates@geuatmsu.org or 517-332-2824.
