Where Do I Get A COBRA Election Form To Enroll In A Plan?
Where do I get the COBRA election form to complete? My employer says I need to send in soon.
The COBRA continuation coverage election form should have been sent to you by the employer’s human resources department or the company may have hired a third-party administrator to enroll you into COBRA benefits for them. Your employer or administrator has only 45 days to send you the paperwork. You have 60 days to elect coverage once you receive the form.
What If I Did Not Receive A COBRA Election Notice
We recommend working with the employer’s human resources department. Call and ask them to resend the health insurance continuation election form. They may refer you to their third-party administrator.
How Much Will My COBRA Premium Be?
As COBRA insurance is the same insurance you previously had, the premium is the same. The difference is the employer is no longer paying a portion of it. On average, this may cost $400 – $700/month per individual. Review your election notice for exact costs.
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What’s Required In A COBRA Election Notice?
What information will my employer send me about COBRA coverage?
The COBRA notification may come from your former employer or a third-party administrator that will manage that plan moving forward. Your COBRA election notice will contain all of the information you will need to continue your health plan.
The election notice should include:
- The name of the plan and the name, address, and telephone number of the plan’s COBRA administrator
- Identification of the qualifying event;
- Identification of the qualified beneficiaries (by name or by status);
- An explanation of the qualified beneficiaries’ right to elect continuation coverage;
- The date coverage will terminate (or has terminated) if continuation coverage is not elected;
- How to elect continuation coverage;
- What will happen if continuation coverage isn’t elected or is waived;
- What continuation coverage is available, for how long, and (if it is for less than 36 months), how it can be extended for disability or second qualifying events;
- How COBRA coverage may terminate early;
- Premium payment requirements, including due dates and grace periods;
- A statement of the importance of keeping the plan administrator informed of the addresses of qualified beneficiaries;
- A statement that the election notice does not fully describe COBRA or the plan and that more information is available from the plan administrator and in the SPD.
What Happens When The Employer Fails To Comply?
The recommendation is to first try to work it out directly with the human resources department that provides the insurance. If you meet resistence with the employer on starting COBRA, you may call the Department of Labor to file a complaint.
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COBRA Third-Party Administrators
Your COBRA plan may be managed by a third-party administrator. Many employers work with the following:
- ADP COBRA
- BASIC COBRA
- BAS' COBRA Control Services
- BenefitConnect EHR
- Businessolver / BenefitSolver
- BRI COBRA (Benefits Resource)
- bswift COBRA
- COBRAPoint Benaissance
- Employee Benefits Corp (EBC)
- HRPro
- Inspira Financial (formerly Payflex)
- iSolved Benefit Services
- Lifetime Benefit Solutions
- Navia Benefit Solutions
- Optum Financial
- Paychex
- Paycom COBRA
- PlanSource
- ThrivePass
- Total Administrative Service Corporation (TASC)
- WageWorks / Conexis
- WEX (formerly Discovery Benefits)
If you are unsure who your plan administrator is, reach out to the human resources department of the company that provided the health insurance you had.
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