Enrollment Checklist
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
Explore
Learn which medical plan option may be the right choice for you by comparing the plans.
Review
Consider enrolling in voluntary benefits. Review the value voluntary benefits may provide for your and your family’s overall health coverage and financial protection.
Enroll
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.
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.
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.
While 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:
- Access free expert fertility guidance through Carrot Fertility
- Get help finding an in-network provider who’s accepting new patients with support from a Health Advocate. Advocates can schedule your appointments, too!
- Save on health care out-of-pocket expenses by participating in tax-advantaged accounts
- Get help reviewing real estate transactions with legal insurance
- Use One Medical for same-day urgent care appointments and 24/7 access to virtual medical care
- Protect future financial plans with voluntary term life insurance and supplemental disability insurance
- Reduce the stress of new responsibilities with Headspace
- Take advantage of Goodwin’s comprehensive medical plan benefits to help cover health expenses
Meet Alexis. Her responsibilities are growing.
Alexis 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.
Val’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:
- Contribute to a health savings account to save for future medical expenses
- Prepare for contingencies with voluntary insurance benefits
- Consider term life insurance and our long-term care benefit through Trustmark
- Take advantage of the new BCBS Mind and Body reimbursement program
- Set intentions with legal support
- Meet your match and save more when you contribute to the 401(k) plan and receive matching contributions from the firm
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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.