Health Plans (Including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA)

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1. Should separate insurance contracts with less than 100 participants be combined and require a 5500?

   By Guest zia111, October 14, 2003
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   • Ron Snyder
   • October 23, 2003

2. Regulations regarding COBRA invoicing

   By Guest Greta, October 23, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 23, 2003

3. Separate COBRA Elections

   By DTH, October 20, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 23, 2003

4. Collection of COBRA Premiums When Participant Quoted the Worng COBRA Rate

   By Guest StargazerL81, October 22, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 22, 2003

5. HIPAA EDI compliance through business associate system

   By Guest cjthornton, October 22, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 22, 2003

6. Flu shots - de minimis fringe benefit?

   By J2D2, October 17, 2003
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   • Guest
   • October 21, 2003

7. What would you do if your health plan reoved the feeding tubes from your child or spouse?

   By GBurns, October 20, 2003
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   • GBurns
   • October 20, 2003

8. Terminated Retiree Medical Plans & COBRA

   By Christine Roberts, October 13, 2003
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   • Christine Roberts
   • October 17, 2003

9. Cal-COBRA application to non-CA employers

   By Guest Lynnemarie, October 13, 2003
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   • Steve72
   • October 17, 2003

10. Direct Payment Under Acc./Health Plan?

    By chris, October 17, 2003
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    • chris
    • October 17, 2003

11. PEOs and Employer Risk vs Benefit of outsourcing

    By Guest llerner, October 15, 2003
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    • mroberts
    • October 17, 2003

12. participation in more than one plan

    By Guest lindap, October 10, 2003
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    • mroberts
    • October 17, 2003

13. New Medical Expense Reimbursement Plan - Effective Date Question

    By Guest ElKH, October 15, 2003
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    • Theresa Lynn
    • October 16, 2003

14. COBRA to dependents of deceased member

    By Guest JD698, October 15, 2003
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    • Sandra Pearce
    • October 15, 2003

15. Self-insured plans in the midst of controlled group with other fully-insured plans - 105(h) non-discrimination rules?

    By EGB, October 10, 2003
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    • Steve72
    • October 13, 2003

16. How strict can the ER be when offering premium discounts to healthy individuals, or to those who are trying to achieve better health through various programs?

    By katieinny, October 10, 2003
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    • KIP KRAUS
    • October 13, 2003

17. Can premiums be raised for over-65 persons once they retire?

    By Guest lschaab, September 22, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 10, 2003

18. How to calculate COBRA rate for self-funded national plan that uses different premiums for different regions?

    By Christine Roberts, October 2, 2003
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    • KIP KRAUS
    • October 8, 2003

19. Preparing Wrap Document

    By Guest JD698, October 8, 2003
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    • E as in ERISA
    • October 8, 2003

20. Former employee elects COBRA but later starts own company

    By Guest cease, October 7, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 8, 2003

21. Claims Procedures - payment of claims

    By Guest SCUDDESLER, October 7, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 7, 2003

22. Claims Procedures - payment of claims

    By Guest SCUDDESLER, October 7, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 7, 2003

23. Can COBRA participant elect into dental coverage during open enrollment?

    By oriecat, October 1, 2003
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    • oriecat
    • October 1, 2003

24. OK to charge employees a varying percentage of health premiums, depending on amount of dependent coverage?

    By Scott, October 1, 2003
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    • Scott
    • October 1, 2003

25. COBRA 6-month extension of final regulations

    By Guest DLevine, October 1, 2003
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    • Guest
    • October 1, 2003

26. Discrimination testing under self-insured medical plan; OK to count both W-2 and 1099 pay in determining the "highest paid 25 percent of all employees"?

    By Guest abrandw, September 30, 2003
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    • oriecat
    • September 30, 2003

27. What can employers offer to Medicare eligible employees who opt out of group health plan?

    By Guest alliketchum, September 30, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 30, 2003

28. Is it legal in Calif. for employees to enroll in a group health plan completely through a company's intranet system?

    By Guest neophyte, September 29, 2003
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    • mbozek
    • September 30, 2003

29. Plan document required for fully insured health plan covering more than 100 participants? Form 5500 needed?

    By Lori Foresz, September 26, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 30, 2003

30. Providers demanding interest on healthcare claims paid "late" by health plan

    By Guest beneman, September 23, 2003
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    • GBurns
    • September 28, 2003

31. Taxation of Domestic Partner health coverage where DP is one of several dependents

    By Guest Amanda Davis, September 26, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 26, 2003

32. Adding health coverage for retirees on 100% self-pay basis; need a document? Can it ever be terminated?

    By Guest tws, September 26, 2003
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    • Don Levit
    • September 26, 2003

33. S corp's health plan covers nonemployee owners; how to charge them? Plan is self-insured

    By Guest Dolores Lawrence, September 23, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 23, 2003

34. New Archer MSAs allowed in 2004?

    By Guest mjm2950, September 22, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 22, 2003

35. Retiree Health

    By Guest kowen, September 19, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 19, 2003

36. HIPAA Violation?

    By Guest akwallace, September 18, 2003
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    • Steve72
    • September 18, 2003

37. COBRA notice needed if we're terminating our self-insured group health plan altogether?

    By Alf, September 18, 2003
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    • KJohnson
    • September 18, 2003

38. Health Care Provider as Plan Sponsor

    By Christine Roberts, September 16, 2003
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    • Christine Roberts
    • September 17, 2003

39. Subrogation Issues

    By Guest JD698, September 12, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 17, 2003

40. Retro Term of Employee-Pd Insurance

    By Guest Callan, September 15, 2003
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    • oriecat
    • September 16, 2003

41. Spouse Carve-Out

    By Guest taguilar, September 12, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 12, 2003

42. QMCSO & Retroactive Election Change

    By PhilB, September 12, 2003
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    • PhilB
    • September 12, 2003

43. Provider billing practices for office visits

    By French, September 9, 2003
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    • GBurns
    • September 11, 2003

44. Can we provide benefits for part-time employees but not all part-time employees?

    By Guest cosmo01, September 4, 2003
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    • mroberts
    • September 10, 2003

45. HCE only MERP

    By J2D2, September 4, 2003
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    • J2D2
    • September 4, 2003

46. Discrimination Issues

    By Guest slrogers, September 2, 2003
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    • Guest
    • September 4, 2003

47. Discriminatory Premiums

    By Guest cease, August 29, 2003
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    • KIP KRAUS
    • August 30, 2003

48. COBRA

    By Guest cease, August 29, 2003
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    • papogi
    • August 29, 2003

49. HRA - Model Document

    By Christine Roberts, August 27, 2003
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    • KJohnson
    • August 28, 2003

50. 105(h) Discrimination Question

    By Scott, August 26, 2003
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    • Scott
    • August 26, 2003