The incredible benefits you have are a result of your colleagues working together to ensure that resident physicians can provide the highest quality care possible and improve their working conditions.
Join CIR now. We’re stronger together.
Your Benefits:
Additional Benefits, including Patient Care Trust Fund.
Your Contract:
- Salary increases each year
- Education benefit $450/year
- Free Rosetta stone subscription
- Quality improvement scholarship
Questions about your contract?
Contact: Omara Gerardo-Valdez
ogerardo-valdez@cirseiu.org
(917) 670-2559
Important Links:
HIPAA Notice of Special Enrollment Rights
Professional Educational Benefit
Latest Communications:
+ Mental Health Resources
- NY Project Hope Emotional Support Helpline: 1-844-863-9314
- Crisis Text Line: Text GOT5 to 741741
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK
- Trevor Lifeline: 1-866-488-7386
- Trevor Text: Text START to 678678
- OMH’s Customer Relations: 1-800-597-8481
- NY Office of Mental Health Website
+ Personal Information
- Membership Form
- Update Form
- Affidavit – If you cannot locate the marriage certificate or birth certificate(s), you can submit this affidavit in its place. The affidavit must be notarized.
Membership Form & Update Form
+ Education
- Professional Educational Benefit (PEB) Claim Form – Now available through the Member Portal – reimburses costs associated with books, board exams, medical licensure fees, dues, subscription, journals and mobile electronic medical devices. See the Professional Educational Benefit Summary for details.
- Rosetta Stone – opportunity to learn a new language with Rosetta Stone.
Professional Education Benefit (PEB) claim form now available through the Member Portal.
+ Appeal & Claim Reprocess
- Appeal Claim Form – Complete this form if your claim was denied in whole or any part or if you disagree with the decision that was made.
- Claim Reprocess Form – Complete this form if your claim was denied and you are able to provide additional information.
Member Portal
Now accepting claims for the Professional Educational Benefit (PEB), with more benefits coming soon.
ACH/Direct Deposit is now available for reimbursement. Get your reimbursements sent directly to your account within 2- 4 business days.
+ First Time Users
Click the REGISTER button above to get started.
User Details – Enter the following criterions to register:
- Enter Member ID (starting with 900/901) or Last 4 of SSN
- Enter First Name, then Last Name
- Enter Date of Birth (slashes not necessary)
- Click Next
- System navigates to Create Your Password step
- Create New Password and Confirm Password
- Select terms and accept the terms and conditions
- Terms and Conditions box will appear
- Click Submit
- Click Next
- Click Send Authorization code button
- Sent to user registered primary email ID
- Enter code (did not receive code, check box to skip email verification)
- Click Finish
System will display confirmation message and navigate to login page. You will receive a welcome email to the registered email address on file.
+ Already Registered
Click the SUBMIT CLAIM button above to open the Member Portal. Then:
- Click on the Login (top right) -> The Member Portal Login section appears
- Enter User Name and Password (created during registration)
- Verification email will appear if skipped during registration
- Click send Authentication code
- Click “I already have a code”
- Enter code sent via registered email address
- No code, request new code
- Click Submit
- Enter code sent via registered email address
Communications details will appear if first time logging into Member Portal:
- Update address/contact information if required.
- Click Submit
- System updates address information on member record
To submit for reimbursements, please see steps below
- Top menu Click Benefits
- Select Reimbursement Type and Employer
- Read the claim submission rules and instructions then Click Continue
- System will display the Claim Form
- Enter all required information and attach proofs (supporting documents) as required
- Click Submit
- Reimbursement claim will be submitted to the Benefit Funds Office
- You will receive an email confirmation of your submission
- Claims are processed between 7 to 10 business days
+ Advantages
- You will be able to easily update contact information as needed.
- The Member Portal streamlines the application process by automatically linking to your member and employer details so that you won’t have to enter them on each application. Based on the login information provided, the system will automatically load the applicable reimbursement claim forms.
- The proof needed for each expense submitted will be tied to the expense line itself. This will reduce the number of denials from the Fund Office for lack of proof-of-submission and decrease wait time for payments.
- The claims processing time will decrease. Checks will be mailed out faster than they have been under the old system.
- The rules and guidelines for the reimbursement type are listed on the form’s first page to help you understand what’s allowed and required.
- You will be able to easily submit claims through the browser on your desktop computer, cell phone, or tablet.
- You can take a picture from your device and upload it for proof of payment.
- Coming soon: “View Balance” – view payment information for your individual benefits.
- Coming soon: “My Messages” – communicate with the Benefits Office directly through the Member Portal.
Please note: the “View EOB” (Explanation of Benefits) option will be hidden for claims that were processed prior to going live with Member Portal registration.
Regional Vice Presidents:
- Colleen Achong, Internal Medicine
Interfaith Medical Center - Anna Ivanova,, Emergency Medicine
Brookdale University Hospital - Steven Miller, Critical Care Fellowship
Brooklyn Hospital Center - Christopher Thipphavong, Psychiatry
Maimonides Medical Center
Delegates:
- Nikolai Levinsohn, Psychiatry
- Samkit Jain, Internal Medicine
- Asmaa Hassan, Psychiatry (alternate)
- Celia Gellman, Internal Medicine (alternate)
Additional Benefits
Education Benefits
Reimbursements for board exams & conferences.
Patient Care Trust Fund
As part of our mission to improve patient care and safety, the PCTF provides multiple grants to CIR members for research, equipment, educational materials, and more. Click here to learn more and to apply for PCTF grants.
Member Discount Program
CIR Members are entitled to a number of discounts on services. Learn more.
Attention: In compliance with HIPAA regulations, we are moving to a new, secure email portal. Please use benefits@cirbenefitfunds.org to send secure emails to the Benefits Office.
