Important Notice Regarding Your Health Benefits
In the spring of 2023, the Health Benefits Committee began exploring options to improve health plan coverage. This work resulted in a decision to separate from CalPERS (health benefits only) and offer medical plans through Self-Insured Schools of California (SISC). The move to SISC will:
Lower premium for employees;
Provide more Kaiser plan options. CalPERS offers one Kaiser plan, SISC will offer three plans;
Include a qualified health savings account (HSA) plan option with Kaiser, and;
Establish Anthem Blue Cross plan options that include both PPO and HMO options.
All employees need to know:
As part of the transition from CalPERS to SISC, all employees who are at least a 0.90 FTE and are currently enrolled in a CalPERS medical plan must participate in the SISC Medical Benefits Open Enrollment and provide the required paperwork.
The new SISC plan options will be effective January 1, 2025.
Employees who are at least a 0.90 FTE and are not enrolled in a CalPERS medical plan are not required to enroll in a SISC plan.
Employees who are at least a 0.90 FTE, currently not enrolled in a CalPERS plan, and choose to enroll in a SISC plan will not be allowed to disenroll from SISC in future years.
As part of Berryessa USD's transition to SISC, eligibility documentation will need to be collected for all dependents to be covered. Berryessa USD has partnered with American Fidelity to complete this part of the process. Please check here for information on how to submit enrollment/plan election forms and SISC dependent eligibility documents, as well as additional pertinent information.