EyeMed Vision Care Select
The University provides faculty, staff (including Allied Union), and AAPs with access to a quality vision care program offered by EyeMed.
The EyeMed 'Select' vision plan promotes preventive care through regular eye exams and early corrective treatment. In addition to helping you see better, routine eye exams can detect a number of serious health conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts and diabetes. Eye exams for your dependent child/ren can also recognize problems that may affect their learning.
After you have paid any required copayments, the vision plan provides benefits for an eye exam and lenses once every 12 months, and frames once every 24 months. In addition, various discounts are available for elective contact lenses or other items not covered by the plan. The benefits are higher when you use a network provider. The network includes approximately 40,000 providers at 18,500 locations.
Visit www.enrollwitheyemed.com/select to search the online directory.
Employee Eligibility
You are eligible to enroll in a Georgetown University sponsored vision plan if you are:
- A staff employee, including members of the Allied International Union, hired to work 30 or more hours per week;
- An academic employee hired to work at least 75% time;
- A fellow.
Dependent Eligibility
If you are covered under the vision plan, you may also elect coverage for your spouse/LDA and your eligible dependent children. You will select from one of the following levels of coverage:
- Employee only
- Employee and spouse/LDA
- Employee and child/ren
- Family (employee, spouse/LDA and child/ren*)
Spouse/Legally Domiciled Adult (LDA)
For medical, dental and vision coverage only, instead of covering a spouse, you may cover another qualified adult member of your household. A qualified adult member of your household is a LDA if he/she is an individual over age 18 who has for at least 6 months lived in the same principal residence as you, remains a member of your household throughout the coverage period, and who:
-EITHER has a close personal relationship with you (not a casual roommate or tenant), shares basic living expenses and is financially interdependent with you, is neither legally married to anyone else nor legally related to you by blood in any way that would prohibit marriage, and is neither receiving benefits from an employer nor eligible for any group coverage.
-OR your blood relative who meets the definition of your tax dependent as defined by Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code during the coverage period and is neither receiving benefits from an employer nor eligible for any other group coverage.
In no event may you have medical coverage for both a spouse and a LDA.
There may be tax and other legal implications for those who elect coverage for a LDA. You are encouraged to consult with an attorney before electing LDA coverage.
Children
Dependent children include your natural children, legally adopted children, children for whom you are the legal guardian, stepchildren who are dependent on you for support, and children for whom you are the proposed adoptive parent from the date of placement.
Age Limitations for Dependent Children
Your unmarried dependent children are eligible until age 19, if unmarried, or until age 26 if full-time college students through EyeMed.
How to Enroll
To learn more about how to enroll, or how to make changes to your coverage, click on one of the links below:
Newly eligible employees
Open enrollment
Making changes during the year
Have Questions? Check out the Frequently Asked Questons (FAQs) section, call the Office of Faculty and Staff Benefits at 202-687-2500, or email benefitshelp@georgetown.edu.
