In Brief

Open Enrollment Begins Monday, Oct. 23

Open Enrollment begins Monday, Oct. 23 and runs through Friday, Nov. 3, at 5 PM Pacific time. This is the annual opportunity for participants to make changes to their Scripps Research benefit selections and, if eligible, enroll (or re-enroll) in the Health Care Spending, Dependent Care Spending, and/or Health Savings Accounts for the 2018 plan year. Plan information was e-mailed to participant’s Scripps email addresses and should have been received around Oct. 9.

In order to effectively manage the ever-changing healthcare landscape, coupled with our current funding environment, TSRI has chosen to implement the following changes for the 2018 plan year:

The California Aetna HMO Deductible Plan will transition to Anthem Blue Cross Select HMO. HMO participants must re-elect their Primary Care Physician through the Open Enrollment system. The Florida EPO, Comprehensive PPO, High Deductible PPO, and Graduate Student PPO Plans will remain with Aetna.
The California Anthem HMO and Florida EPO plans will see slightly higher employee premiums.
The Comprehensive Choice PPO plan deductible and out-of-pocket maximums will increase. The employee premium will remain the same.
TSRI will introduce employer contributions towards the Health Savings Account ($1,000 for Employee Only and $3,000 for Employee + Dependent(s)) for participants who enroll in the HDHP PPO Plan. Individuals ineligible for the HSA will be enrolled in an HRA account to receive the employer contributions. Employer contributions will be paid on a quarterly basis.
TSRI will also introduce a concierge service for HDHP participants through Compass Pro Health at no cost.

Please note if you participated in the Healthcare Spending, Dependent Care Spending, or Health Savings Accounts in 2017, you still must log on and elect a new deferral amount to participate in 2018. Your 2017 election WILL NOT roll over to 2018.

Participants with questions regarding Open Enrollment should contact Human Resources at the Benefits Line, 858-784-8487 or benefits@scripps.edu.

For a schedule of other Open Enrollment events, go to http://www.scripps.edu/hr/calendar/calendar.php?s=CA for the California campus, and http://www.scripps.edu/hr/calendar/calendar.php?s=FL for the Florida campus.

To login to the Open Enrollment system, go to https://eo.scripps.edu.

CA Biosafety Committee Meeting Materials Due Oct. 27

To receive consideration at the next TSRI Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) meeting, registration documents must be submitted to Environmental Health and Safety by Friday, Oct. 27, via email to rachellv@scripps.edu. The meeting will be held Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2:30 to 3:30 PM, building 3301, P2 conference room.

CA Onsite Clinic Scheduled for Nov. 15

The next onsite immunization clinic on the California campus will be held Wednesday, Nov. 15, from 9:30 to 11 AM, at 3040 Science Park Road, Room 105 (located within the Normal Blood Donor Services suite- Room 101). Appointments are not needed.

Conducted by Sharp Rees-Stealy staff, the clinic will provide hepatitis B vaccination free of charge to all TSRI employees. Environmental Health & Safety Occupational Medicine must pre-authorize all other procedures based on the employee's working conditions. These procedures include tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccines and other titers, immunizations and procedures.

Upcoming Faculty Lecture Series Dates

Mark your calendars for the upcoming Faculty Lecture Series events on the TSRI California campus! Each lecture will begin at 4 PM in the Committee Lecture Hall in the Skaggs/Molecular Biology Building (MBB2N), followed by a reception in the Beckman Building first-floor galleria.

November 08, 2017

Jane Dyson, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

Title: Disorder Rules: how cells and viruses use disordered proteins

January 10, 2018

Matthew Disney, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Title: Sequence-based design of small molecules targeting RNA

February 14, 2018

David Nemazee, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology

Title: Phospholipase D3 and D4: new players in innate immunity and nucleic acid sensing

March 14, 2018

Supriya Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

Title: Neuroendocrine Control of Body Fat Metabolism: Lessons from C. elegans

April 11, 2018

Kendall Nettles, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

Title: Structural rules for targeting the glucocorticoid receptor

June 13, 2018

Phil Baran, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Title: Translational Chemistry

For further information, see the Faculty Lecture Series webpage. The series is supported by an endowment from the Cochrane-Cartan families, established by TSRI Professor Emeritus Charles G. Cochrane.

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In Brief

Open Enrollment Begins Monday, Oct. 23

CA Biosafety Committee Meeting Materials Due Oct. 27

CA Onsite Clinic Scheduled for Nov. 15

Upcoming Faculty Lecture Series Dates