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Now that effective vaccines against COVID-19 are available (although not yet widely), employers are wondering whether they should require employees to get vaccinated. The guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) indicates that generally employers can require employees to get the COVID vaccine as a condition of continued employment. However, employers who do so…

Every year an employer health plan will go through an open enrollment period.  What happens, however, when an employee has a qualifying life event outside of that timeframe?  Employees can make changes to their health plan when they have a qualifying life event under HIPAA special enrollment rights. Special enrollment generally means that the employee…

Group benefits are more than just insurance.  At Haren Insurance, we offer patient advocacy as an added value services to our employer groups.  Patient advocacy helps employees to negotiate medical claim denials, pharmacy issues and aid in appealing denied claims. What does a patient advocate do? Recently, an employee was facing a claim denial due…

Group benefits are more than just insurance. At Haren Insurance, we offer patient advocacy as an added value services to our employer groups. Patient advocacy helps employees to negotiate medical claim denials, pharmacy issues and aid in appealing denied claims. What does a patient advocate do? Recently, an employee was facing a claim denial due…