The Empire Plan is a unique health insurance plan designed especially for public employees in New York State. Empire Plan benefits include inpatient and outpatient hospital coverage, medical/surgical coverage, Centers of Excellence for transplants, infertility and cancer, home care services, equipment and supplies, mental health and substance abuse coverage and prescription drug coverage.
DAVID A. PATERSON
GOVERNOR
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12239
www.cs.ny.gov
NANCY G. GROENWEGEN
COMMISSIONER
NY10-15
PE10-09
TO: New York State Health Benefits Administrators; Participating Employer Health Benefits Administrators
FROM: Employee Benefits Division
SUBJECT: 2010 M/C Life Certificate
DATE: May 14, 2010
We are happy to announce the new M/C Life Certificate 2010 is at the printer. This book (AL0974) replaces (NY0551). Please recycle any old books on your shelves when you receive your supply.
To be eligible to participate in the M/C Life program, an enrollee must be:
- A Management/Confidential employee of the State or a Participating Employer
- A Member or Annual employee of the State Legislature; or
- A Judge or Justice of the Unified Court System of the State or a non-judicial employee of the court system who has been designated Management/Confidential.
Distribution
The new M/C Life Certificate 2010 will not be mailed to the homes of enrollees. We will send two books to each agency with M/C enrollment. If you need additional copies, please order them at HBA Online at https://www.cs.state.ny.us. Select Publications and Forms, and select the M/C publications order form.
The M/C Life Certificate is also included in a weekly mailing to all newly eligible M/C enrollees.
The M/C Life package includes the certificate and enrollment forms.
Publications available on https://www.cs.state.ny.us
Please check our web site for the M/C Life Certificate. We generally post publications when we sign off for printing. To view, go to the Department of Civil Service web site and:
- choose "Employees",
- select State Government employees, then
- select Life Insurance under "Health Insurance and other employee benefits."
This will bring you to M/C Life information. Enrollees will find the Cost Calculator on the first page.
If you have questions about this distribution, please call the Communications Unit at (518) 457-7577.
If you have questions about M/C Life, please call the EBD M/C Life Unit (518) 473-3496.