How do I use YHP?

How to join

Staff or employees regularly scheduled to work a minimum of 20 hours a week and faculty who hold at least half-time appointments are eligible for Yale Health Plan membership and may have some or all of the monthly premiums paid by Yale University.

• Eligible Yale faculty, staff, employees and individual associates must enroll within the first 30 days of employment or affiliation with Yale.
• Or during the University's open enrollment period each Fall.
  Casual and temporary employees are not eligible to join the Yale Health Plan (YHP).
• Questions about University benefits should be directed to the Yale University Benefits Office (432-5550).
• When you enroll in the Yale Health Plan, you may choose individual, two-person or family coverage.
• Two-person coverage includes you and one eligible child, or you and your spouse/domestic partner.
• Family coverage includes you, your spouse/domestic partner, and eligible children.

If you wish to add a dependent after you yourself have enrolled you may:

• add a child within 30 days of birth, adoption, placement for adoption, granting of custody or guardianship, or during the annual open enrollment period.
• add a spouse within 30 days of the marriage or during the annual open enrollment period.
• add a same-sex domestic partner within 30 days of certification of the partnership by the Yale Benefits Office or, once the partnership is certified, during the annual open enrollment period.
• add a dependent who loses other coverage by providing proof of the loss of the other coverage and enrolling them within 30 days of the loss or during the following open enrollment period.