Open Enrollment for Active Employees » Oracle Self-Service Instructions
On January 1, 2010, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico (BCBS of NM) will become the Laboratory’s medical insurance carrier, replacing United Healthcare and Anthem Blue Cross. Every LANS employee and retiree must make an active election for BCBS of NM during Open Enrollment for medical coverage to continue into 2010. Your current medical elections will not carry through to 2010, and there is no default coverage – YOU MUST TAKE ACTION TO REMAIN IN MEDICAL COVERAGE!
Employees with a CRYPTOCard and administrative-level access must enroll using Oracle Self-Service. Employees who do not have a CRYPTOCard with administrative access, will be contacted by the Benefits Office and receive a hardcopy form to enroll.
Employees may use either the detailed step-by-step instruction (pdf) or a summarized instruction below. If you have not accessed the Oracle Self-Service application before, it is recommeded you use the detailed instruction.
Oracle Step-by-Step Instruction (pdf)
| Summary of Enrollment Process | |
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| Preparation | You must have the following critical pieces of information available if you will be enrolling a new eligible dependent:
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| Step 1: | Using your CRYPTOCard, login to ORACLE Self-Service. |
| Step 2: | Choose the "LANL Worker Self-Service" responsibility and select "Benefits." |
| Step 3: | Read the "Terms and Conditions" of benefits enrollment, if you agree, select "Accept" and "Next." |
| Step 4: | Verify your dependent/beneficiary information and click "Continue." If adding a new dependent choose "Add Another Person." (Note: If you are adding another person you must have the information listed in the preparation section available.) |
| Step 5: | Click "Change Your Benefits Enrollment." |
| Step 6: | Select your enrollment options for Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Care Reimbursement Account (HCRA), Dependent Care Reimbursement Account (DCRA), and the Legal plan, when finished, click "Save > Next." Note: If you are choosing to enroll in a plan, select your coverage level; if you are opting out of coverage choose the waive option. If you are choosing to de-enroll from Legal coverage, simply de-select your option. Participation in a HCRA or DCRA account requires active enrollment each year. You will also be able to view your enrollment in Disability, Employer-Paid Life Insurance, Supplemental Life Insurance, AD&D, and Business Travel Accident. Please note, you will not be able to manipulate these coverage's in Oracle Self-Service. If you would like to change these coverage's, please contact the Benefits Office. |
| Step 7: | If you are enrolling eligible dependents, select the "Cover" option for each plan you are enrolling them in, when finished, click "Save > Next." |
| Step 8: | You will see a "Change Your Benefits Enrollment: Add Beneficiaries" page. You may not take any action on this page; simply click "Next." (Note: You may change or update your beneficiary designations at any time.) |
| Step 9: | Print a copy of your confirmation statement. After printing your confirmation statement, click "Finish." No corrections or changes will be allowed without your confirmation statement. You must print a copy of this page. |
| Step 10: | You should be redirected to the beginning of the Open Enrollment application; you may logout of Oracle Self-Service and close the application. |