Get Ready

What you need to know

Each year you have a chance to enroll in the benefits that best fit your lifestyle and needs for the coming year. When you’re eligible to enroll, follow the steps below so you’ll feel prepared to choose the benefits that’ll help you reach your destination.

Your Enrollment Checklist

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Review the benefits information on this site.
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Learn which medical plan option may be the right choice for you by comparing the plans.

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Goodwin offers benefits that make it easy to access quality care when you and your family need it most. Use this site and read the 2025 Open Enrollment Guide to learn more about the benefits available to you. Then take advantage of your benefits package by enrolling in coverage during your enrollment period.

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Make sure you have enough life insurance. You can elect additional coverage for yourself, your spouse or domestic partner, and your children.

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Don’t forget to check out the well-being benefits, too!

Enroll

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Are you eligible for and planning to enroll in a flexible spending account? Think about your health care and dependent care needs for the year ahead, and estimate their costs, because your elections do not automatically roll over. You’ll enter your FSA contribution(s) when you enroll. Partners are not eligible to enroll in the FSAs.
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Enrolling in the BCBS Blue Care Elect Saver HDHP? Decide how much to contribute to your HealthEquity health savings account (HSA) in 2025. Note that you can change this contribution amount at any time.

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You may purchase voluntary insurance coverage. If you’d like to enroll in coverage for the first time during your new hire enrollment period, you can elect accident, critical illness and/or hospital indemnity coverage for your spouse or domestic partner, and/or child(ren) up to age 26, with no evidence of insurability (medical underwriting) required. You can also elect voluntary insurance at any time during the year, but coverage will only apply to accidents, diagnoses, or hospital stays that occur on or after the coverage start date. Coverage may also be subject to medical underwriting.
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You may purchase legal insurance through ARAG. The plan covers your spouse, domestic partner, and eligible dependent children. Keep in mind that you must already have legal insurance prior to the occurrence of a major life event, for the claim to be covered.

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You may enroll in Voluntary LTD.
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If you’re already thinking about the care you may need in the future, consider enrolling in the long-term care insurance program. If interested, contact Trustmark for the details.

What to Consider Before Enrolling

Choosing your benefits should be about reflecting on what matters most to you and maximizing the programs and services we offer to take care of you and your family. Here are fictional employee examples to show how you could get the most out of our benefits program:

Meet Dev. He’s just starting out.

portraitWhile his fiancée is busy planning their upcoming wedding, Dev’s working on getting their finances in order. The couple is already a year into their five-year plan, which includes buying their first home and starting a family. They don’t have a lot of free time, and they’re focused on getting the biggest bang for every buck they’re spending.

How Dev’s Goodwin benefits support him:

Meet Alexis. Her responsibilities are growing.

portraitAlexis and her partner have spent the past several years building their careers to the point where they feel ready to expand their family. At the same time, Alexis’s widowed mother was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and she may need to move in with them. All the stress is making Alexis’s back pain act up. Alexis and her partner were ready to care for a child, but they weren’t prepared for this latest challenge.

How Alexis’s Goodwin benefits support her:

  • Receive virtual medical treatment from a qualified telehealth provider through the BCBS medical plans’ Well Connection program
  • Join Wellthy to receive concierge level support from care coordinators who can connect you with services and resources your elderly parent may need
  • Check out Hinge Health for virtual physical therapy that you can do whenever it suits you
  • Access family planning support with Cleo
  • Seek help dealing with life’s unexpected challenges with Guide employee assistance program

Meet Val. She has an eye on the future.

portraitVal’s nest isn’t quite empty, with one child getting ready for college and another still trying to find his footing, but she’s focused on when she can finally retire and live life on her terms. With her kids still on her Goodwin medical coverage, Val is making sure she’s taking advantage of everything she may want and need at this stage of life.

How Val’s Goodwin benefits support her:

Do You Need Help Choosing the Right Medical Plan?

Let the health plan comparison tool do the work for you. Answer a few questions and the tool will compare the BCBS medical options and even preview your estimated costs for each plan. So, you can decide which choice is better aligned with your needs.

How You Pay for Coverage

The firm shares in the cost of some programs with you while you are responsible for paying the full cost of others. Partners pay the full cost of all plans in which they elect to participate. View the 2025 premium rates on iNet.

If You Don’t Enroll

You must enroll during your new hire enrollment period to have benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage. If you don’t enroll by your enrollment deadline, your next opportunity to do so will be in the fall of 2025 for coverage that will start January 1, 2026.

Contacts

Medical PPO and HDHP

Blue Cross Blue Shield

800-262-2583
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Medical HMO

Kaiser

800-464-4000
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Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

HealthEquity

866-346-5800
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