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He should be covered under yours. If your DH is going to add him I think it needs to be done within 30 days of his birth.

Ours required a call within 48 hours of birth and then wanted the paperwork within 30 days. I'd call the customer service line ASAP just to avoid any further delay in case.

LO was covered under my insurance for the first 30 days, but since we put her on her own policy after, we had to get the paperwork in quickly. if it were a work policy, it probably wouldn't be as vital since he won't have to go through underwriting, but i would still call HR and see what they'll need.

They are covered, but you need to add them to your existing policy as soon as possible. We called the insurance company the week of.

We called within a few days to add her, it was actually pretty easy! Make sure you do it before 30 days though.

I called and they gave him temporary insurance. I think I had 90 days to mail them a copy of the birth certificate and the other paperwork

You have a set amount of days like pp have stated, but I would recommend you go ahead and call now. It can take awhile, and we wound up having to jump through some hops to make sure everything was fine in time. For example, we had to have our official birth certificate, and I really had to hound that office to make sure we got it in time to submit it.

I think 30 days is standard. We had to take LO to the ER at 7 weeks so definitely don't play games with getting him on your insurance. Just do it now. I'm sure your husband can just email is HR dept to get the ball rolling.

@Danizaur: Glad he's going to start the process. We had to fight to get some of Hyla's things covered even though we started the process right away, but that had more to do with the inadequacy of the person we were talking to.

@BabyBoecksMom: I had 60 days to add LO to my insurance, too. I think 30 is standard but it's definitely not a hard-and-fast rule. That said, my employer made things difficult (not purposely, they were just really slow and kept coming back to me with things they needed that they hadn't told me about) so it took forever for the change to go through.