Benefits for all of life's moments
Whether you’re taking care of your health and well-being, supporting your family, advancing your career or preparing for your financial future, Geisinger offers extensive core benefits that cover you during life’s major moments. And you’ll also find a suite of voluntary benefits for your wellness, family and peace of mind.
Together, our core and voluntary benefits are flexible enough to fit your life.
Core benefits
Caring for your health and well-being
You want to live your healthiest life — and we want to help by supporting you when you’re sick or injured. Here, you’ll find a range of benefits to cover your physical and mental health, as well as several ways to help you save on medical costs.
- Three medical plan options: Choose from three medical plans — Geisinger Enhanced, Geisinger Value and Geisinger Essential — and pay only for the coverage you need or want.
- Dental and vision coverage: Dental coverage should make you smile. That’s why ours includes orthodontics for children and adults. We also offer free annual eye exams and savings on contacts, prescription glasses and more.
- Free mental health counseling: Through GuidanceResources®, we offer six free therapy visits per year. They’ll even help you schedule appointments. Plus, take advantage of our self-help therapy tool.
- Paid time-off: Generous PTO packages let you take the time you need to travel, rest and invest in your well-being.
- Short-term disability*: This company-paid benefit pays you a portion of your salary if you get sick or injured and have to miss work for more than seven calendar days. A “buy up” option is also available if you want to purchase additional coverage.
- Long-term disability: This company-paid benefit covers a disability that continues for more than six months.
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs): These accounts allow you to use pre-tax dollars for certain healthcare expenses.
- MyHealth Rewards: You’ll earn a $600 financial incentive for completing the program and another $600 if your spouse or domestic partner does, too.
Supporting your family
Your family is a priority, so you’ll find a suite of benefits to protect your loved ones, including same-sex and opposite-sex spouses, domestic partners and children and stepchildren. And if you need it, we’ll also support your growing family and help you find competent, reliable and trustworthy caregivers.
- Fertility coverage: The Geisinger Enhanced and Geisinger Value plans provide coverage for intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
- Adoption assistance: You’ll have up to $5,000 toward the cost of a finalized adoption.
- Paid parental leave: Parents can enjoy paid leave following the arrival of a child through birth, adoption, legal guardianship or foster care placement.
- Free membership to Care.com: Try a Care.com membership with subsidized Backup Care for your children, pets or aging parents.
- Free referrals for family care: Referral specialists from GuidanceResources can help you find trusted providers for childcare, eldercare and more.
- Paid military leave: Members of the armed forces are eligible for paid military training leave.
- Free legal help for family matters: Licensed attorneys provided by GuidanceResources can answer legal questions about family matters such as adopting a child or navigating a divorce.
Advancing your career
From day one, your career development is our focus. We offer a variety of programs and benefits to support you — whenever you’re ready and wherever you are.
- Tuition reimbursement: We offer up to $3,000 annually in tuition reimbursement for undergraduate classes and up to $5,000 annually for graduate classes.
- Continuing medical education (CME) reimbursement: Physicians and advanced practice providers, you’re eligible for CME course reimbursement.
- Physician training and education: Physicians, discover options to advance your career through our residency and fellowship programs, medical school and Center for Faculty and Professional Development.
- Nurse training and education: Nurses, be sure to explore our medical-surgical fellowship program, graduate nurse residency program, Nursing Scholars Program, Geisinger Nursing Institute and Clinical Faculty and Preceptor Academy.
- On-site Master in Business Administration (MBA) program: Pursue your MBA through The University of Scranton with classes held at three hospital campuses.
Preparing for your financial future
Partner with Geisinger to achieve your financial goals. Whether you’re just starting your career or have years of experience, several benefits can provide peace of mind and help you realize financial security.
- Generous retirement contributions: We contribute 5% to 9% of your salary to your retirement plan, no matter how much you contribute.
- Free basic life insurance: All employees have up to $1,000,000 in basic company-paid life insurance.
- Free financial advice: Certified public accountants and certified financial planners from GuidanceResources can advise you on a variety of personal financial matters.
- Free financial workshops: Online workshops from Fidelity help you organize, plan and own your future and your financial wellness.
Voluntary benefits**
Understand your core benefits? Great! Now explore the variety of voluntary benefits from our vendors.
You can choose to enroll in some, all or none of these benefits. If you do enroll, you’ll pay a premium for each, either by payroll deduction or directly.
Our voluntary benefits include:
- Critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity coverages from Voya make payments directly to you, to be used however you’d like.
- Universal life insurance with a chronic care benefit from Transamerica offers additional flexibility as you get older.
- Pet insurance from MetLife covers unexpected health costs and preventive care for your dog, cat or other pets.
- Enhanced legal insurance from MetLife offers you expert legal help to navigate life moments like getting married, buying a home or starting a family.
- Identity theft protection from Norton™️ LifeLock™️ protects your identity and personal information.
*The benefits package is available to all benefits-eligible employees. Unionized employees should refer to their Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) or speak with a union representative. Newly organized employees should consult with their respective union leaders.
**These voluntary benefits are provided to you directly by the vendors. Geisinger does not sponsor or administer these voluntary plans.