COBRA Administration

Stay Compliant with Benefit Elect - Chappelle

When you partner with Benefit Elect - Chappelle, you are completely protected. We have the tools, experience, knowledge and dedication you need to make COBRA compliance easy. More importantly, by outsourcing your COBRA compliance program to Benefit Elect, you will protect your company from potentially devastating fines and penalties for COBRA failures.

If you have 20 or more employees, you are required to notify terminated employees of their COBRA rights. This not only applies to Healthcare, but other benefits such as dental, vision, and Flexible Spending Accounts, yet the cost of outsourcing this administration is minimal. With Benefit Elect, the employer has only a efw tasks to complete:

1. Send notice of new enrollees and their qualifying event to Benefit Elect
2. Review reports received from Benefit Elect

We welcome the opportunity to service the COBRA needs of any size company.

As the designated COBRA Administrator for your company, Benefit Elect will...

• Prepare event-specific qualifying notices for COBRA participants
• Provide monthly reporting of pending, enrolled, and terminated COBRA participants
• Customize COBRA notices for each specific employee
• Maintain federally-mandated COBRA documentation
• Process all COBRA election forms and enroll the applicant directly
• Complete premium collection for the COBRA applicants for the entire election period
• Track all dates required by law for proper compliance with COBRA
• Maintain all documentation with certification of mailing for all COBRA participants
• Provide Department of Labor initial notices to new enrollees
• Send Certificates of Creditable Coverage to plan enrollees upon termination of COBRA
• Provide HIPAA certificates for certification of group health coverage
• Produce and mail conversion and termination notices before the end of 18, 29 or 36 month coverage periods