Compliance
How will you ensure that our plans remain in legal compliance?
Clarke & Company Benefits provides compliance support: On a day-to-day basis we are supported by ThinkHR which has 28 certified HR professionals who are supported by a legal compliance team. ThinkHR Live advisors are senior level, PHR-, SPHR-, and SHRM-certified professionals with prior experience as HR directors and managers. Their team averages more than 15 years’ experience in HR. Second, for specific legal questions, Clarke & Company Benefits works with a benefits attorney, Jason Cogdill. Third, our staff is always available to assist with helping clients by providing plan documents, Q&A, and any other client compliance assistance.
Our compliance review encompasses several facets listed below that we offer our clients:
- HR Compliance Audit with results
- Affordability testing of all plans to meet ACA requirements
- All compliance documents are loaded to the web page that we create and update in order to make all benefits related material easily accessible
- Compliance emails and alerts
- Social media alerts on compliance changes
- ACA large group reporting including 1095C forms
- Compliance calendar for important compliance dates
- ThinkHR compliance email newsletters
Some of our compliance tools are listed below:
- HIPAA Self-Compliance Tool
- ERISA Self-Compliance Tool
- FMLA Administration Checklist
- Hazard/Risk Assessment
- Large Employer Health Reform Checklist
- ACA Employer Compliance Checklist
Describe your clients’ access to in-house legal counsel or ERISA counsel advice and review. If there is an additional cost for this service please identify the same.
We utilize a benefits attorney for these issues. Our attorney is Jason Cogdill. Please see Jason’s credentials: http://www.probenefits.com/participants/about-us/leadership-team/jason-cogdill-2
Depending on the issue and depth of counsel, standard hourly rates would apply. Most issues can be sent to the ThinkHR team at no charge for their opinion prior to going to legal counsel.
Does your firm assist with technical questions in regards to PPACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA and IRS Section 125 and will it promptly notify clients of regulatory and legislative changes and take proactive steps to address them?
On a day-to-day basis, Clarke & Company Benefits is supported by ThinkHR. ThinkHR’s Q&A team is 28 certified HR professionals who are supported by a legal compliance team. ThinkHR Live advisors are senior level, PHR-, SPHR-, and SHRM-certified professionals with prior experience as HR directors and managers. In fact, ThinkHR’s team averages more than 15 years’ experience in HR. They are available to our staff as well as clients to assist with any HR/Benefit/Risk/Compliance questions that may come up. This team is available daily via email, telephone, or mobile app. ThinkHR also sends out employer law alerts and updates on state and federal regulations.
Clarke & Company staff is also available on a daily basis to assist in any of these areas. We have a compliance newsletter and blog, and regularly post to social media any updates or changes that would affect employers.
What resources do you provide to help clients remain compliant?
Clarke & Company provides the following resources:
- Access to ThinkHR
- Compliance Calendar
- Compliance App
- Legislative Briefs
- HR Audit
- Compliance tools that cover HIPAA, ERISA, FMLA, ACA
- Compliance newsletters
- Compliance seminars and webinars
- Access to our staff
Access to 28 HR professionals backed by a legal team
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