Office of Group Benefits

No. If you would like to remain in your current OGB health plan with the same covered dependents for the 2025 plan year, you do not need to do anything. Your coverage will continue for the 2026 plan year.

Members enrolled in the HSA or FSA options will need to select a new contribution amount for plan year 2026.

Annual enrollment begins October 1 and ends November 15. Active employees can enroll in one of two ways:

1. By visiting the online enrollment portal
2. Contacting their human resources department

Retirees can enroll in one of three ways:

1. By visiting the online enrollment portal
2. By completing a paper enrollment form and mailing it to OGB
3. By contacting OGB

• Louisiana Blue and Blue Shield of Louisiana
• 1-800-392-4089, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday

• HMO Louisiana (Blue Advantage Medicare Advantage) 
• Pre-enrollment: 1-833-955-3821, 8:00a.m to 8:00 p.m. Seven days a week.
• Members:1-866-508-7145, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Seven days a week. (October - March)
  8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Friday (April - September

• Humana
• 1-877-889-9885, 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday

• Peoples Health
• 1-866-877-5403, 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Seven days a week (October - March); 8:00 am - 8:00 pm Monday - Friday (April - September)

• Livinti
• (beginning October 1, 24 hours, 7 days a week)
• 1-888-925-02770
  

• SilverScript
• 1-888-996-0104, 24 hours, 7 days a week
  
• TASC
• 1-844-237-9222 , 24 hours, 7 days a week
  

• Health Insurance Cards: Contact the insurance carrier of the plan
• FSA Debit Cards (active employees only): Contact OGB's third party administrator, TASC.

No, there are three ways to enroll.

1. Non-LaGov active employees and all retirees may visit annualenrollment.groupbenefits.org to use the annual enrollment portal. LaGov active employees may use the Louisiana Employees Online (LEO) enrollment application.
2. If you are a retiree, you can complete the personalized annual enrollment form in your enrollment guide and return it to the address provided.
3. For active employees, contact your human resources department to enroll in a health plan with different or new covered dependents than 2023 or to discontinue OGB coverage. Retirees may contact OGB.

• Individual Pelican HSA775 coverage: $4,400
• Family Pelican HSA775 coverage: $8,750
• $1000 catch-up maximum for those who qualify

When you enroll in a flexible benefits plan, you agree to contribute a portion of your salary to pay for qualified benefits. Because you never receive that portion of your salary, it’s not considered wages for federal income tax purposes. That money goes directly into the account you specify and can be used according to the IRS rules. Your enrollment is irrevocable for the Plan Year, unless you have an OGB Plan-Recognized Qualifying Life Event.

To be eligible, you must be an active, full-time employee. You have thirty (30) days from the date of hire to decide to enroll. If you do not enroll after 30 days of your hire date, you can enroll during next year’s annual enrollment or after an OGB Plan-Recognized Qualified Life Event like childbirth or marriage.

Both the General-Purpose FSA and the Limited-Purpose FSA plan options also allow you to be reimbursed for medical expenses for your dependent children up to age 26.

You select an option and elect a contribution amount for the plan year. The minimum and the maximum are determined each year by the IRS. For 2024 Plan Year, the minimum contribution was $600 and the maximum was $3,200 for the General-Purpose FSA and Limited-Purpose FSA. You will receive a Mastercard debit card, which is your FSA card, and it works like a debit card for your flexible spending account. Your pre-tax money is in your account and can be used to pay for eligible expenses at your doctor’s office, pharmacy or other provider. The election is like a loan and monies are immediately available for the General-Purpose FSA and Limited-Purpose FSA. A per-pay period amount is taken out of your check and placed into your account.

1. Receive a preventive health screening or have your doctor complete a primary care provider form (PCP) after your annual wellness visit. OGB is providing clinics across the state that screen for cholesterol, glucose levels and liver function. You’ll leave the clinic with a personalized health plan and referrals to appropriate specialists, primary care physicians or disease management programs. The process must be completed each year.

• Be enrolled in a Pelican or Magnolia health plan;
• Not have Medicare as primary health coverage;
• Have been diagnosed with one or more of the following health conditions:
• Diabetes
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart failure
• Asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

This program is part of your health plan as long as Medicare is not your primary coverage. If eligible, you must enroll and speak with a Blue Cross Health Coach at least once every three months (or 90 days) or more often as requested by the health coach to remain an active participant in the program.

To enroll or confirm your enrollment, call a Blue Cross Health Coach toll-free at 1-800-363-9159.

• Learn more about your condition and how it affects you.
• Find out how to work with your doctor to manage or improve your health.
• Understand more about the medicines you take and why you take them.
• Receive health information to help you understand, manage, and improve your condition.

• Give you individual support and attention;
• Help you set healthcare goals;
• Assist with coordinating your care;
• Serve as your advocates and advisors;
• Give you important health information;
• Help you find qualified physicians, and
• Reduce the barriers to good health outcomes.

Co-pays for drugs specifically prescribed for treating diabetes, coronary artery disease, heart failure, asthma and COPD are discounted when you participate in the program.

The federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985, made allowance for those who lost health coverage, due to job loss, to continue health benefits for a period of time. If you have recently changed employment status (left your employer), you are eligible for a temporary extension of group health coverage, and you have received a letter from TASC. TASC is OGB’s third-party administrator for FSA, COBRA and FSA COBRA.

If you are a new hire to state government, you have received a COBRA Specific Rights Notice Letter provided to all newly hired employees for information purposes only to let you know your rights as an employee.

You may contact OGB COBRA at [email protected] for general information prior to termination of active coverage. Once you have received your COBRA packet, you may contact TASC by visiting their website at https://www.tasconline.com/about-tasc/contact-us/ or phone or mail at the contact information provided within the COBRA packet.

1. Reduction in hours of the covered employee's employment;
2. Voluntary or involuntary termination of the covered employee's employment other than for reason of gross misconduct (note that a retirement is considered a termination of employment);
3. Death of the covered employee;
4. Divorce or legal separation of the covered employee from the employee's spouse;
5. Dependent child ceasing to be a dependent child under the generally applicable requirements of the plan.

Please mail all COBRA payments to :

TASC COBRA
2302 International Ln
Madison, WI 53704-3140

Include the Member TASC ID in the memo field and the last 4 of the SSN. Also, any payment mailed should always be post marked by USPS. Any payments not mailed to the address above will not be processed.

Participation Schedule Also Aplies to LSU First Health Plan