Notices & Rights

This guide provides a summary of you employee benefits rights and regulations as determined by Federal and State Laws. Information included in this guide includes the following:

Special Open Enrollment Rights Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Premium Assistance

Affordable Care Act (ACA) – Preventive Services for Non-grandfathered Plans Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act of 1996

General Notice of the Cobra Continuations Rights

Affordable Care Act (ACA) – Insurance Mandate

Health Insurance Marketplace Coverage Options and Your Group Health Coverage

Break Time for Nursing Mothers Under the Fair Labor Standards Acts (FLSA) Women’s Health & Cancer Rights Act

The Generic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)

HIPAA Privacy Rules

SPECIAL OPEN ENROLLMENT RIGHTS

This notice is being provided to ensure that you understand your right to apply for group health insurance coverage. A special enrollment period is a time outside of the annual open enrollment period during which you and your family have a right to sign up for health coverage. In the Marketplace, you qualify for a special enrollment period 60 days following certain life events that involve a change in family status (for example, marriage or birth of a child) or loss of other health coverage. Job-based plans must provide a special enrollment period of 30 days. Some events will require additional documentation to be submitted with the application at the time of enrollment. You should read this notice even if you plan to waive coverage at this time.

Marriage, Birth, or Adoption

Loss of Other Coverage

Medicaid or CHIP

If you have a new dependent as a result of a marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents. However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after the marriage, birth, or placement for adoption.

If you are declining coverage for yourself or your dependents (including your spouse) because of other health insurance or group health plan coverage, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents in this plan if you or your dependents lose eligibility for that other coverage (or if the employer stops contributing toward your or your dependents’ other coverage). However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after your or your dependents’ other coverage ends (or after the employer stops contributing toward the other coverage).

If you or your dependents lose eligibility for coverage under Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or become eligible for a premium assistance subsidy under Medicaid or CHIP, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents. You must request enrollment within 60 days of the loss of Medicaid or CHIP coverage or the determination of eligibility for a premium assistance subsidy.