Compliance
You need to maintain a high level of confidence, as you navigate the constantly changing landscape of employee benefits compliance. Our compliance solutions are practical and comprehensive, providing much-needed peace of mind.
A Full Suite of Service
Our industry experts head a compliance team experienced at offering an array of services, including:
- Reviewing and improving reporting and disclosure for ERISA compliance, including drafting plan documents and SPDs
- Facilitating all aspects of HIPAA privacy compliance, including privacy Notice procedures, privacy officer obligations, and vendor relationship compliance
- Reviewing key plan provisions and plan documents to establish that plan provisions are being communicated properly and effectively (e.g., life insurance conversion, waiver of premium provisions)
- Preparation of signature-ready 5500 forms
- Reviewing all aspects of COBRA compliance, including initial event notification, COBRA open enrollment, and COBRA qualifying event changes, as well as developing a written COBRA policy
- Providing customized CMS notices to distribute to employees and filing the notice to CMS on behalf of the plan
- Reviewing and negotiating terms of vendor contracts
- IRS and DOL audit assistance
- FMLA policy preparation and/or review
We maintain access to numerous informational databases that are updated on a daily basis, to provide you with the most current regulatory information available. Our compliance alerts are easy to understand and give you actionable, timely information.
Custom SupportIn addition to our alerts and our standard suite of services, you will have access at any time to our compliance services and staff for special compliance issues and problems. Our swift and timely research delivers clear, practical answers to you. When necessary, we also work with your outside counsel to handle special issues.
For Church plansIn addition to the above - we provide services specific to Church plans that include:
- Reviewing and improving reporting and disclosure, ensuring vendors do not inadvertently “ERISA-ify” the Church plan
- Reviewing the applicability of mini-COBRA to our Church clients
- Reviewing various state laws that may be applicable to the Church plan, whether fully-insured or self-insured
