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- Under what circumstances is exhaustion of COBRA coverage a requirement for special enrollment?
- From the April 20, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We’re not sure about special enrollment rights for our group health plan—in particular, the requirement to exhaust COBRA coverage is confusing us. We have an employee whose wife is on COBRA from her former employer, ...
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- Does a small health plan have to do a risk analysis in order to comply with the HIPAA security rule?
- From the March 02, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We have a small health plan and we’ve heard that all health plans must do a risk analysis in order to comply with the HIPAA security rule. Is that true and, if so, just what is a ...
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- What are the HIPAA security requirements that a small health plan will have to meet by the April 2006 deadline?
- From the January 19, 2006 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We have a small health plan—what are the HIPAA security requirements that we will have to satisfy by the April 2006 deadline? If our small plan is fully insured, is the insurer responsible for HIPAA security compliance? ...
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- What do all those acronyms in employee benefits stand for?
- From the December 30, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Everybody in the employee benefits field uses acronyms like CDHC, EAP, ADA, USERRA, etc. What do these and other employee benefits acronyms stand for? ANSWER: Here’s a list of common acronyms primarily used in our COBRA, HIPAA, ...
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- Are ERISA welfare plans required to have an annual open enrollment period?
- From the November 17, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- Question: Our company maintains several ERISA welfare plans for employees, including an insured group health plan and an insured LTD plan. Are we required to offer annual open enrollment for these plans? Answer: Maybe. There is no annual open enrollment ...
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- How do we know if our plans have to offer extended deadlines because of Hurricane Katrina?
- From the October 27, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- Question: We have read about recent guidance that extended COBRA, HIPAA, and ERISA claims deadlines in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. How do we know if our ERISA health and welfare plans need to comply with this guidance, what deadlines ...
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- Does a change of insurers under a health plan trigger an obligation to issue HIPAA Certificates?
- From the October 13, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We recently changed insurers for our company’s group health plan. Is the insurer whose coverage is no longer in place required to issue certificates of creditable coverage (HIPAA Certificates)? ANSWER: No, but the insurer is not completely ...
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- What should we tell health care providers that ask us about the coverage of a qualified beneficiary during the COBRA election or initial premium payment period?
- From the October 06, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: Our company sponsors an insured group health plan subject to COBRA. We frequently receive inquiries from health care providers to determine whether their services will be covered. During the COBRA election period and the 45-day initial COBRA premium ...
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- Do stand-alone, self-funded, limited-scope dental and vision benefits that cover some medical procedures have to comply with the 2004 final HIPAA portability regulations?
- From the August 18, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We have stand-alone, self-funded dental and vision plans that cover some medical procedures. In the past it was unclear whether these plans were subject to the HIPAA portability regulations or, instead, qualified for the exception for limited-...
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- Under the December, 2004 HIPAA portability regulations, do retirees participating in our health plans have special enrollment rights?
- From the June 23, 2005 EBIA Weekly
- QUESTION: We maintain a major medical plan that covers both current employees and retirees. Our plan gives retirees one chance to enroll themselves and their dependents for retiree medical coverage--at retirement. If retirees choose not to enroll themselves or ...
