Webcast | What Employers Need to Know about COBRA: Non-Traditional Plans, Medicare, and Mergers & Acquisitions
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Webcast | What Employers Need to Know about COBRA: Non-Traditional Plans, Medicare, and Mergers & Acquisitions
January 14, 2018
This webinar will provide an overview of COBRA. We will focus on how COBRA applies to non-traditional plans such as health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), employee assistance programs (EAPs), on-site or pop-up clinics, and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs). This webinar will describe how COBRA and Medicare interact, and will also discuss COBRA’s application in mergers and acquisitions.
This webinar will:
Provide an overview of COBRA and its regulations
Discuss state “mini-COBRA” laws for small employers
Discuss state laws that impose supplemental requirements beyond COBRA for large employers
Discuss how a plan’s status as fully-insured or self-funded will affect whether the state “mini-COBRA” laws apply
Apply COBRA to non-traditional plans such as health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), employee assistance programs (EAPs), on-site or pop-up clinics, and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs)
Describe how the COBRA contribution is calculated for HRAs
Discuss how COBRA and Medicare interact, including Medicare Secondary Payer rules
Discuss COBRA liability when there is a merger or acquisition involving an asset or stock sale
Describe best practices for COBRA administration
This 60-minute intermediate level webinar will help employers understand how COBRA applies to non-traditional plans, in the Medicare context and in mergers and acquisitions.
This webinar event has been submitted to the Human Resource Certification Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management to qualify for 1 recertification credit hour.
This webinar will provide an overview of COBRA. We will focus on how COBRA applies to non-traditional plans such as health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), employee assistance programs (EAPs), on-site or pop-up clinics, and flexible spending arrangements (FSAs). This webinar will describe how COBRA and Medicare interact, and will also discuss COBRA’s application in mergers and acquisitions.
