Would Your Benefits Plan Stand Up to an Audit? Part 1: Plan Admin. December 8, 2009

3 CPE / MCLE Credits

Morning Session:

"Basic" benefit administration-a near contradiction in terms-whether a new administrator or a seasoned pro, everyone would agree that excellent benefit plan administration requires diligence in tracking many moving parts...nothing "basic" about it.

Examine key components of the most important administrative issues in group health plans, including recent legislative updates that impact your plans. Specifically, you'll be able to:

*Define elements of the ERISA Welfare SPD and Plan Document
*List Premium Only Plan (POP) essentials
*Interpret Table I Calculations for Group Term Life
*Describe Federal COBRA and ARRA's Federal Subsidy

And join us in the afternoon for Would Your Benefits Plan Stand Up to an Audit? Part 2: Compliance

Speakers:
Ari Fleischauer is known as one of the premiere administrators in the Flex Spending world. She specializes in IRC Section 125 benefits administration and on-going plan compliance issues. Ari currently manages the Flexible Spending Account department at the Vita Companies, the Service Center, and oversees complete operations of VitaFlex, a product that is used by many of the major consulting firms in the industry and is considered a world class program.

Jason Lombardi jumped into the benefits world in 1999 as an Account Executive at the Vita Companies and provides full service employee benefit plan marketing, selection, implementation, compliance and management to a large client base. He is a member of several professional organizations and is relied upon for his COBRA expertise by many other employee benefit brokerage firms in the industry.

Desired Level of Experience: Open to all levels

Official Website: http://www.nchra.org