
IndexAbout the Medical PlanEligibility and Enrollment- Eligible Dependents - Suspended Retiree - Special Eligibility Rules - Classes of Coverage - How to Enroll - Pre-Existing Conditions - Changing Your Coverage - Changes in Status - Other Changes that May Affect Your Coverage - When Coverage Ends - Loss of Eligibility Basic Plan FeaturesThe Prescription Drug ProgramMental Health and Chemical Dependency CareCovered ExpensesExclusionsPaymentsClaimsPartners in HealthContinuation CoverageAdministrative and ERISA InformationKey TermsBenefit Summary |
Generally, you are eligible if:
You are not eligible if:
You may also elect coverage for your eligible dependents including:
Refer to Key Terms for definitions of eligible dependents, dependent child, suspended retiree, spouse, and Qualified Medical Child Support Order. A person who becomes a retiree due to incapacity within the meaning of the ExxonMobil Disability Plan and who begins long-term disability benefits under that plan, but whose benefits stop because the person is no longer incapacitated is a suspended retiree and not eligible for coverage until the earlier of the date the person:
The family members of a deceased suspended retiree will be eligible for coverage under this Plan only after the occurrence of the earlier of the following:
If you were participating in either the Comprehensive Medical Plan of Mobil Oil Corporation or the Superior Oil Medical Plan on March 31, 2004, you are eligible to elect coverage in the ExxonMobil Medical Plan. In addition, individuals who are eligible dependents may be eligible for coverage. A person who otherwise is not a spouse but who, as a dependent of a former Mobil employee who participated in or received benefits under a Mobil-sponsored plan or program prior to March 1, 2000, is considered an eligible dependent as long as that person's eligibility for coverage as a dependent under a Mobil-sponsored plan would have continued. You can choose coverage as an:
There are also classes of coverage for extended part-time employees, surviving spouses and dependents of deceased employees and retirees, spouses and dependents of retirees covered by the ExxonMobil Medicare Supplement Plan, and employees on certain types of leaves of absence. For employees on an approved leave of absence, their contribution rate will change from the employee contribution rate to the Leave of Absence contribution rate as shown in the table on the next page.
Each class of coverage described in this section has its own contribution rate. Employees contribute to the Medical Plan through monthly deductions from their pay on a pre-tax or after-tax basis. Retirees and survivors receiving monthly benefit checks from ExxonMobil pay by deductions from these checks on an after-tax basis. Other retirees or survivors and participants with continuation coverage pay by check or by monthly draft on their bank account. No one can be covered more than once in the Medical Plan. You and your spouse cannot both enroll as employees (or retirees) and elect coverage for each other as eligible dependents. If you and your spouse work for the company or are both retirees you may both be eligible for coverage. Each of you can be covered as an individual employee (or retiree), or one of you can be covered as the employee (or retiree) and the other can be an eligible dependent. Also, if you have children, each child can only be covered by one of you. In addition, a marriage between two ExxonMobil employees does not allow enrollment or cancellation in any of the ExxonMobil health plans if either employee is then making contributions on a pre-tax basis. In order to change your coverage, you need to wait until you experience a change in status that allows coverage changes or Annual Enrollment. As a newly hired employee, if you enroll in the Medical Plan within 30 days of your start date, coverage begins the first day of employment. If you enroll between 31 and 60 days from your date of hire, coverage will be effective the first day of the month following receipt of the forms by Benefits Administration. You must enroll everyone in the same option and pre-existing condition provisions do not apply to you and any eligible dependents. For expatriate employees who are not currently enrolled in the Medical Plan, coverage for the expatriate employee will be effective on the first date the employee is scheduled to begin the expatriate assignment. Coverage for eligible dependents of an expatriate employee will be effective on the earlier of the date the expatriate employee enrolls the dependent, or the date the eligible dependent accompanies the employee on assignment. If you are eligible for the ExxonMobil Pre-Tax Spending Plan, you will be enrolled to pay your monthly contributions on a pre-tax basis unless you decline this feature. Your monthly pre-tax contributions and class of coverage must remain in effect for the entire plan year, unless you experience a change in status. (See the Changing Your Coverage section on page 12). As a current employee, if you are not covered by a medical plan to which ExxonMobil contributes and would like to enroll in the Medical Plan, you may do so but all your contributions through the end of the current calendar year will be on an after-tax basis unless you have a subsequent change in status which will allow you to enroll in the ExxonMobil Pre-Tax Spending Plan. Coverage is effective the first of the month following completion of enrollment. However, you and any eligible dependents you enroll may be subject to pre-existing condition provisions. You can enroll eligible dependents only if you are enrolled in an EMMP option or in the ExxonMobil Medicare Supplement Plan. You can enroll in a Medical Plan option by using Employee Direct Access (EDA) available on the ExxonMobil Me HR Intranet site. Enrollment forms are also available from Benefits Administration for those individuals who do not have access to EDA. You may be requested to provide documents at some future date to prove that the dependents you enrolled were eligible (e.g., marriage certificate, birth certificate). If you fail to provide such requested documents within 90 days of the request, coverage for the dependents will be cancelled retroactively without the refund of any contributions that you made, and you may be asked to repay any benefits that were paid on their behalf from the Medical Plan. In addition, you may be subject to discipline up to and including termination for falsifying company records. If you are declining enrollment for yourself or your dependents (including your spouse) because of other group health plan coverage, you may enroll yourself and your dependents in any available Medical Plan option if you or your dependents lose eligibility for that other group health plan coverage (or if the employer stops contributing toward your and/or your dependent(s)' other coverage). In addition, you may enroll yourself or your dependents in any available Medical Plan option within 60 days after marriage (with coverage effective the first of the following month) or after birth, adoption or placement for adoption (with coverage retroactive to the birth, adoption or placement for adoption). Under the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2009, effective April 1, 2009, you may change your Plan election for yourself and any eligible dependents within 60 days of either (1) termination of Medicaid or CHIP coverage due to loss of eligibility or (2) becoming eligible for a state premium assistance program under Medicaid or CHIP coverage. In either case, coverage is effective the first of the month following enrollment. CAUTION: SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO RETROACTIVELY CHANGE TO A DIFFERENT MEDICAL PLAN OPTION, SUCH AS FROM AN HMO TO A POS II OPTION, YOUR BENEFITS FOR ANY MEDICAL SERVICES WHICH WERE RECEIVED ON OR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF COVERAGE FOLLOWING THE BIRTH, ADOPTION OR PLACEMENT FOR ADOPTION MAY NOT BE COVERED OR MAY BE REIMBURSED AT A LOWER BENEFIT LEVEL. MAKE SURE YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF CHANGING OPTIONS BEFORE MAKING YOUR ELECTION.
Annual
Enrollment Employees are automatically enrolled in the Pre-Tax Spending Plan to pay monthly contributions on a pre-tax basis unless this feature is declined each time. This choice is only available during the annual enrollment period or with a change in status. If you pay your monthly contributions on a pre-tax basis, Annual Enrollment is the only time that you can make changes to your coverage unless you experience a change in status. If you pay your monthly contributions on an after-tax basis and would like to continue making contributions on an after-tax basis for the following year, you must elect to do so each year during Annual Enrollment and after each change in status. Otherwise, your contributions will be switched to a pre-tax basis beginning the first day of the following year. As a retiree, you will pay your contributions on an after-tax basis through payroll deduction (if eligible), check, or bank draft. During Annual Enrollment, changes to your Medical Plan coverage (option or contributions) do not automatically adjust your coverage or contributions to other plans such as the ExxonMobil Dental Plan or the flexible spending accounts under the ExxonMobil Pre-Tax Spending Plan. Changes to those plans must be made separately during Annual Enrollment. You and your eligible dependents are considered late entrants if you do not enroll within 60 days of initial eligibility or a subsequent change in status. The Medical Plan imposes pre-existing condition limitations on the POS II options. This means that if you and/or your eligible dependent(s) have a medical condition before coming into the Medical Plan, you and/or your eligible dependent(s) might have to wait a certain period of time before the plan will provide coverage for that condition. This exclusion applies only to conditions for which medical advice, diagnosis, care, or treatment was recommended or received within a 6-month period. Generally, this 6-month period ends the day before you enroll and doesn't include the period from the date you complete the enrollment until the effective date (which is generally the first of the following month following enrollment). The pre-existing condition exclusion does not apply to pregnancy. This exclusion may last up to 12 months from your first day of coverage. However, if once you are covered, you don't receive medical advice, diagnosis, care or treatment for the condition for 6 months, the pre-existing exclusion limitation doesn't apply thereafter. In addition, you and/or your eligible dependent(s) can reduce the length of this exclusion period by the number of days of your prior "creditable coverage." Most prior group health plan coverage is creditable coverage and can be used to reduce the pre-existing condition exclusion if you have not experienced a break in coverage of at least 63 days. To reduce the 12-month exclusion period by your creditable coverage, you need to provide Benefits Administration a copy of any certificates of creditable coverage you and/or your eligible dependent(s) may have received. If you do not have a certificate, but you did have prior health coverage, we will tell you how to obtain one from your prior plan or issuer. There are also other ways that you can show you had creditable coverage. Please contact Benefits Administration if you need help demonstrating creditable coverage. All questions about the preexisting condition exclusion and creditable coverage should be directed to Benefits Administration: Employees Retirees and Survivors Pre-existing condition provisions under the Medical Plan do not apply:
If you pay your contributions on a pre-tax basis and would like to make a coverage change after you are first eligible, you must wait until Annual Enrollment or until you experience one of the following changes in status. If you experience a change in status, you must make the coverage change election within 60 days of the event.
Changes in status are events that allow you to make changes to your coverage if you pay on a pre-tax basis during the plan year. This section explains which events are considered changes in status and what changes you may make as a result. If you have a change in status, you must complete your change within 60 days. If you do not complete your change within 60 days, changes to your coverage may be limited. Unless you have a relocation that changes your service area or you experience a change as allowed by HIPAA (see How to Enroll section on page 10), you may not change your plan option (e.g., switching between POS II options or to an HMO or from one HMO to another HMO) until the next Annual Enrollment. Important Note: Your election made due to a change in status cannot be changed after the form is received by Benefits Administration or the transaction is completed in EDA if it changes your pre-tax contributions. The following is a quick reference guide to the Changes in Status that are discussed in more detail after the table.
All changes will be allowed if the medical/dental/vision form is received within 60 days of the event by the Benefits Administration Office or the change is made in EDA within 30 days. For most events, the effective date will be the first of the month after the forms are received or the transaction is completed in EDA. Subject to any enrollment rules applicable to a Medical Plan Option, an employee may add a dependent effective the first day of a month if required contributions are made on a pre-tax basis and adding the dependent does not change the amount of required contributions. Birth, Adoption or Placement for Adoption If you enroll your new dependent between 31 and 60 days from the birth or adoption and your coverage level changes, you will pay the cost difference on a post-tax basis until the end of the month in which the forms are received by Benefits Administration. Beginning the first day of the following month your deduction will be on a pre-tax basis.
Sole Legal Guardianship or Sole Managing
Conservatorship Marriage Death of a Spouse When a Child is No Longer Eligible Divorce You may not make a change to your coverage if you and your spouse become legally separated because there is no impact on eligibility; however, if your stepchildren no longer reside with you after a legal separation, they must be removed as they are no longer eligible to participate in the Medical Plan. If you lose coverage under your spouse's health plan on account of divorce, you can sign up for medical coverage for yourself and your eligible dependents. You must enroll within 60 days following the date you lose coverage under your spouse's plan or wait until Annual Enrollment or another change in status. Coverage will be effective as of the first of the month following your completion of the enrollment. Transfer or Change Residence Leave of Absence If the company should make any payment on your behalf to continue your coverage while you are on leave and you decide not to return to work, you will be required to reimburse the company for required contributions. If you are on an approved leave of absence and the Leave of Absence contribution rate begins, you may continue your coverage by making your required contribution. If you were on a leave that meets the requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) or the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and your coverage ended, re-enrollment is subject to FMLA or USERRA requirements. For other types of leaves, you may be subject to pre-existing condition limitations when you return to work and enroll in the Medical Plan if you don't continue your coverage while on leave. For more information, call Benefits Administration. See Information Sources at the front of this SPD. Change in Coverage Costs or Significant
Curtailment If the cost for coverage under your spouse's health plan significantly increases or there is a significant curtailment of coverage that permits revocation of coverage during a plan year and you drop that coverage, you will be able to sign up for medical coverage for yourself and your eligible dependents. You must enroll within 60 days following the date you lose coverage under your spouse's plan or wait until Annual Enrollment or another change in status. Coverage will be effective as of the first of the month following your completion of the enrollment. Addition or Improvement of Option Loss of Option Remember, if you make your contributions on a pre-tax basis and you experience any of the events mentioned previously, or if you are newly eligible as a result of a change or loss of coverage under your spouse's medical plan, it is your responsibility to complete your change within 60 days of experiencing the event. If you miss the 60-day notification period, you will not be able to make changes until Annual Enrollment or until you experience another change in status. If a Covered Family Member Lives Away from Home If You are a Retiree under Age 65 If You are an Extended Part-Time Employee If You Work Past Age 65 If You or Your Covered Dependents Become Medicare
Eligible for Any Reason When a retiree or a retiree's covered eligible dependent becomes eligible for Medicare, either due to age or Social Security disability status, that person cannot participate in any Medical Plan option but will be eligible for the ExxonMobil Medicare Supplement Plan. If You Die
Children of deceased employees or retirees may continue participation as long as they are an eligible dependent. If your surviving spouse remarries, eligibility for your children also ends. Special rules may apply to dependents of individuals who become retirees due to disability. See Suspended Retiree below. Eligible dependents of deceased extended part-time employees are not eligible to continue to participate in the Plan. These dependents may be eligible to elect continuation coverage under COBRA provisions. See page 57 for details. If You Become a Suspended Retiree Coverage continues for 12 months from the date coverage would otherwise end if you received transition benefits under the ExxonMobil Disability Plan. However, if you did not receive transition benefits under the ExxonMobil Disability Plan, coverage continues for 18 months from the date coverage would otherwise end. The cost of this continued coverage is 102% of the combined participant and company contributions. Coverage for you and/or your dependents ends on the earliest of the following dates:
You are responsible for ending coverage with Benefits Administration when your enrolled spouse or dependent is no longer eligible for coverage. If you do not complete your change within 60 days, any contributions you make for ineligible dependents will not be refunded and your pre-tax contributions cannot be reduced until the next plan year or a subsequent change in status. Any claims paid after the loss of eligibility must be repaid by you. Everyone in your family may lose eligibility for Medical Plan coverage, and you may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment if you commit fraud against the Medical Plan, for instance, by filing claims for benefits to which you are not entitled. Coverage may also be terminated if you refuse to repay amounts erroneously paid by the Medical Plan on your behalf or that you recover from a third party. Your participation may be terminated if you fail to comply with the terms of the Medical Plan and its administrative requirements. You may also lose eligibility if you enroll persons who are not eligible, for instance, by covering children who do not meet the eligibility requirements. Extended Benefits at Termination
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