2027 Benefits Open Enrollment

Learn more about your benefits by visiting the Virtual Benefits Fair, where you can find benefit summaries, vendor contact information, and helpful resources like videos, flyers, and presentations.

The UAMS Benefits Fair is Wednesday, October 21. It will be held in EDII ground floor concourse, from 9:00am to 3:00pm

#1: Workday Inbox Task

Visit your Workday inbox and take action from the inbox task titled “Change Benefits for Open Enrollment.”

#2: Review Your Current Benefits Information

Review your current benefit elections, dependent information, and beneficiaries on your Benefits tab. Select “Let’s Get Started” from within the Workday task to waive, enroll, or modify your elections for 2027 before Nov. 2, 2026. Read more about each option in the sections below.

Retirement beneficiaries will not appear in Workday, you can review those on your retirement providers website.

#3: Enroll Or Change Coverage

Complete your enrollment online through Workday. To streamline your benefit elections, the open enrollment selections in Workday are focused on medical, dental, flexible spending accounts and other benefits that may be changed only during the open enrollment period (or with a qualified status change). Changes to optional life insurance and retirement contributions, as well as other optional benefits, are available separately in Workday.

#4: Enroll in Flexible Spending Account

Enrollment is required to participate in the Healthcare or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts; your 2026 enrollment will not roll forward to 2027.

• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account: Contribute up to $3,400 for eligible medical out-of-pocket expenses.
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account: Contribute up to $7,500 for eligible child or adult dependent care expenses.

#5: Finalize Open Enrollment

For your changes to be finalized, you must click the “Review and Sign” button at the bottom of the page.

You will be prompted to review your selections and provide an electronic signature by checking the “I Accept” box.

Once your review is complete, you must submit the transaction for your changes to be finalized.

You will receive a confirmation page upon final submission. If you have any questions, please email askhr@uams.edu or call 501-686-5650.

#6: UMR Live Well Reward$ Wellness Program 2027

To qualify for lower out-of-pocket costs and earn wellness rewards, you must log in to umr.com and opt in to UMR’s Live Well Reward$ wellness program between Oct. 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026. If you don’t opt in, you won’t be eligible for savings in 2027. You will have until November 30, 2026 to redeem your 25/26 points.

1. Log in to Workday.
2. Navigate to the Benefits App.
3. Select “Benefit Elections” to see the benefits in which you are currently enrolled as of today or do one of the following:
   • After open enrollment closes, you can preview the changes you’ve made by selecting “Benefit Elections as of Date” to verify you successfully completed your open enrollment elections. Change the date to the beginning of the plan year (for example 01/01/2027).
   • Click the PDF icon at the top right to generate a PDF of your benefits that can be saved or printed.