Webinar: What Employers Need to Know about the New Final Rules on Health Reimbursement Arrangements - Bim Group

Webinar: What Employers Need to Know about the New Final Rules on Health Reimbursement Arrangements

Tuesday, September 17, 2019
2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT

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This webinar will provide an overview of the new final rules on health reimbursement arrangements by:

  • Describing what a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) is
  • Describing the new types of HRAs: the individual coverage HRA and the excepted benefit HRA
  • Describing the types of individual coverage that can and cannot be integrated with an HRA
  • Illustrating how the integration rules apply to an individual coverage HRA that is integrated with Medicare
  • Explaining how an employer would structure an individual coverage HRA, including the nondiscrimination rules, classes of employees, minimum class size, opt-out and reimbursement waiver provisions, individual coverage substantiation, and notice requirements
  • Describing how the individual coverage HRA interacts with COBRA, the premium tax credit, individual market special enrollment periods, employer shared responsibility provisions, and ERISA
  • Briefly describing how an employer would structure an excepted benefit HRA
  • Describing best practices in offering HRAs under the final rules

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This intermediate level webinar will help employers understand individual coverage HRAs and excepted benefit HRAs.

Register today while seating is still available.

NOTE: If you would like to view the webinar but are not able to attend, we encourage you to still register as you normally would. All registrants will receive a replay and copy of the presentation afterwards. 

If you are a Bim Group client and missed the client specific invitation, please email info@bimgroup.us with the CLIENT NAME in the subject line to have the preferred employer code emailed to you.

 


PRESENTER

Chelsea Deppert is an associate in the Atlanta office of Fisher Phillips. She provides practical guidance to employers on the technical aspects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and other state and federal laws impacting the design, implementation and ongoing compliance of employee benefit plans and programs. She advises clients with respect to all aspects of employee benefits, including retirement plans, health and other welfare benefit plans.

 

This series is brought to you by your Partner Firm of United Benefit Advisors — the nation’s leading independent employee benefits advisory organization with more than 200 Partner offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

 

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