If you enrolled or made changes to your benefits during the Benefits Open Enrollment period, you may receive new benefits ID cards.
Review your ID cards for accuracy. If you discover an error or by early January you have not received all the ID cards you expected, contact your insurance carrier. Your benefits contact is not able to request ID cards on your behalf. See below for ID card information specific to each benefit plan.
STATE GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE
For State Group Health Insurance, if you are newly enrolled or changed plan designs or insurance carriers, you will receive your ID card by early January. You can obtain an ID card online through your health insurance carrier’s website. The website for your health insurance carrier can be found on the last page of the Insurance Benefits Decision Guide.
If you did not change your plan design or health insurance carrier, you may still receive a new ID card.
PHARMACY BENEFITS
If you are newly enrolled in health insurance for 2026 or added or removed dependents, you will receive an ID card from the pharmacy benefits manager, Navitus. You should receive your ID card by early January. To access your ID card online, go to www.navitus.com.
DENTAL INSURANCE
If you are newly enrolled in Uniform Dental, Preventive Dental, the Select or Select Plus plans, you will receive an ID card from the dental insurance carrier, Delta Dental, by early January. If you are currently enrolled, you will only receive a new ID card if you changed your level of coverage for 2026 (for example: from individual to family or family to individual). You may obtain an ID card online at www.deltadentalwi.com/state-of-wi.
VISION INSURANCE
MetLife is the new vision insurance administrator starting January 1, 2026 (using the Superior network of vision providers). MetLife does not issue ID cards. If your vision provider is in the MetLife Superior network, your vision provider should be able to verify your vision insurance coverage once you provide them with your full legal name and date of birth. Otherwise, you can print a generic vision insurance ID card to take with you to your vision appointment.
FLEXIBLE SPENDING ACCOUNTS AND HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
TASC is the new Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) administrator starting January 1, 2026. If you enrolled in a Healthcare FSA, Dependent Day Care Account, Parking or Transit Account, or HSA for the 2026 plan year, you will receive a payment card from TASC to use for eligible expenses incurred on/after January 1, 2026. If you have multiple accounts (FSA, HSA, Parking and Transit) for the 2026 plan year, the same TASC payment card can be used for all accounts. There is not a separate payment card issued for each.
If you did not enroll for the 2026 plan year but are eligible for carryover for the Healthcare FSA or Parking or Transit Accounts, you will also receive a payment card from TASC to use for eligible expenses.
If you are currently enrolled in an HSA with Optum, you can continue to use your Optum payment card until the expiration date, your account is exhausted, or when you transfer your HSA to another administrator (such as TASC), whichever comes first.
If you are currently enrolled in an FSA with Optum, starting January 1, 2026, you will no longer be able to use your payment card for FSA eligible expenses. To submit eligible expenses by March 31, 2026 for the 2025 plan year, do so through the Optum website or Optum mobile app.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about each benefit plan, review the Universities of Wisconsin Employee Benefits website.
Source: Universities of Wisconsin Office of Human Resources