Disable pop-up blockers before you start the enrollment process.

Make sure you’ve set up security questions and answers in UCPath. You’ll need to answer a security question to make any changes to your benefits.

If you’re enrolling in UC Blue & Gold HMO, check the plan website for your primary care provider’s enrollment ID. If you do not specify a primary care provider, you will be assigned to one. If you are a current UC Blue & Gold HMO member, you will need to contact Health Net directly or submit a request through your Health Net account if you want to change your primary care provider.

If you’re enrolling in DeltaCareUSA Dental HMO, check the plan website for your primary dentist’s facility number. You’ll need it to enroll in the plan.

Between Thursday, October 29, at 8 a.m. and Friday, November 20, at 5 p.m. (PT), go to UCPath and sign in with your username and password.   

Your dashboard will show a countdown to the end of Open Enrollment. Select “Visit UCPath’s OE Page” to review your current benefits, access your enrollment event, track your election status, view estimated costs, and find resources to help you make your 2027 elections. When you are ready to make your elections, select “Open Enrollment: Enroll Now.”

After you answer a security question, you’ll see the Open Enrollment Welcome page. Follow the prompts to review and acknowledge the required information.

On the Benefit Enrollment page, select “Click to Modify” on any plan you’d like to change.

To add new family members, select “Add/Review Dependents.”

On the Plan page, click “Select” to choose a new plan or “Waive” to decline coverage. Check the box next to the name of each family member you’d like to enroll.

Remember that you must re-enroll in your Health and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) each year.

To enroll in Pet Insurance, you must visit Nationwide’s website. If you do not complete enrollment on the Nationwide website, you will not have coverage.

After you enter all your benefit changes, click “Submit,” and accept all terms and conditions, including arbitration, if applicable.

A confirmation message lets you know your enrollments were successfully submitted.

On the View Benefits Statements page, select the statement you want to view from the drop-down menu. You can download a PDF version of this statement for your records.

You can make and submit Open Enrollment changes in UCPath until 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20, 2026.

A submission statement is generated each time you submit or resubmit your Open Enrollment elections. You can view these statements at any time by navigating to the “Benefits & Retirement” Menu in UCPath. 

After Open Enrollment ends, UCPath will notify you by email when your final confirmation statement is available.

To ensure UC’s benefits resources are used wisely, anyone who enrolls new family members in their health and welfare benefit plans must provide documents to verify their family members’ eligibility for coverage. 

UnifyHR administers the verification program for UC. You must respond by the deadline shown on the letter sent by UnifyHR to protect your family members’ coverage.

Learn more about family member eligibility verification.