RETIREMENT
PLAN/
ADMINISTRATION
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The
health care industry is going through tremendous change. Affiliations,
mergers and acquisitions have caused providers to look at new cost
effective ways to deliver high quality services. At the same time,
studies show that employees are growing increasingly aware of the
need to plan for their retirement. These two events have contributed
to a trend toward reducing costs of retirement programs, while increasing
employee involvement and responsibility. To help health care employers
address these changing needs, we have designed our Retirement Services
and Consultation Program. The program covers the full spectrum of
administration of defined benefit plans 403(b) tax sheltered annuity
plans, 457(b) deferred compensation plans and 401(k) plans. Specific
services include state of the art administration, complete compliance
management and a comprehensive employee communications package. The
program also offers pre-retirement counseling and educational seminars
on personal financial planning. |
TERM
LIFE
INSURANCE

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Help
your employees protect their families with low-cost life insurance
through the convenience of payroll deduction. Term life insurance
is a cost-effective way to
gain security and peace of mind for families.
Eligibility:
All regular full-time, regular part-time or irregular part-time
employees under age 70 are eligible to apply for this employer-sponsored,
employee-paid policy. In addition, any employee's spouse under age
65 may also apply, even if the employee does not participate in
the plan. Unmarried, dependent children may be insured as long as
either of the spouses participate.
Coverage:
Up to $500,000 in life insurance for employees and spouses. For
children, $5,000.
Optional Benefit: Coverage of $100,000 for accidental
death and dismemberment available to employees and spouses.the spouses
participate.
Portability:
Coverage remains in force at the same low rates even if
the employee stops working for your hospital.
Disability
Benefit: Premium payments stop if the insured becomes permanently
or totally disabled before age 60. |
LONG
TERM CARE
INSURANCE

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Long-term
care insurance addresses the significant emotional and financial
burden that employees and their families may face if long term care
services are required. The cost of these services can be very expensive
whether they are provided in a nursing facility or at home.
The long-term care
policies offered through MHA’s program have many important
features such as:
- Group discount
for employees and others affiliated with an MHA member organization
(the group discount is also available to spouses, parents, parents-in-law
and retirees).
- A wide variety
of benefit options.
- Coverage for custodial,
skilled and intermediate care, as well as home health care, adult
day care, and assisted living care.
- Inflation protection
options.
- Waiver of premium
options.
- Several elimination periods.
Long-term care insurance is an important piece of financial planning
that can protect employees and their families from catastrophic
long term care expenses, expenses that can seriously deplete savings.
Call or email us for
additional information or a free consultation |
PREPAID
LEGAL

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Employee
Benefits
- Affordable
group rate
- No
deductibles or copayments
- No
limits on usage for covered services
-
No claim forms to file
- Covers
spouse and dependents
- Makes
legal services available to those previously intimidated by the
law, afraid of high fees or just unsure of how to select an attorney
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Provides access to convenient and confidential legal consultations
for services
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Encourages asking questions before serious complications arise
What's
Covered
- Access
to a nationwide netword of more than 7,000 experienced, independent
attorneys
- Unlimited
initial telephone advice and office consultations
- Preparation
of wills, living wills and trusts
- PUrchase,
sale and refinancing of a primary residence
- Traffic
Defense (excluding DUI)
- Draving
Privileges Restoration
- Debt
collection Defense
- Personal
Bankruptcy
- Document
review
- Uncontested
adoption, guardianship and anme change
- Eviction
and tenant problems (tenant only)
- Civil
litigation defense
- Document
preparation - deeds, mortgages, promissory motes, powers of attorney,
demand letters
- Juvenile
Defense
- Consumer
protection matters
Employer
Advantages
- Cost
effective - employee funded
- No
minimum participation requirement
- All
employees eligible
- Easy
to administer
- Enhances
benefits offering required to recruit and retain quality employees
- Can
help boost productivity and morale
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WHOLE
LIFE
INSURANCE

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MHA
Insurance Agency offers one of the most flexible insurance programs
ever designed by the insurance industry. This whole life insurance
policy gives employees permanent insurance protection while at
the same time paying competitive rates of tax deferred interest,
starting with the first dollar of account value.
Among the many benefits your employees will enjoy with this employer-sponsored,
employee-paid program:
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Insurance coverage continues throughout life, yet employees
can alter premiums and coverage to reflect changing needs without
the costs associated with starting a new policy.
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Employees
select the amount of insurance coverage that best fits their
needs.
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Coverage
available for spouses, dependent children and grandchildren.
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Employees
need not participate to insure other family members.
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Convenience
of payroll deduction.
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Portability
so employees can take the policy with them with no change in
cost or benefits if they change jobs or retire.
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For
MHA members, employees can get fully personalized benefit statements
at no extra charge.
Your
health care organization benefits from the seamless administration
handled completely by our insurance partner. Fully trained professionals
will advise and counsel your employees during regular on-site
visits. In addition, there is toll-free access to a customer service
center for changes and questions between service visits. Our partner
handles all the administrative details. You will not receive a
list bill from any insurance carrier. What's more, our system
permits the consolidation of your existing plans and the capacity
to service current policies from any insurance carrier. Multiple
programs may be run within the same deduction field
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PAYROLL
DEDUCT AUTO,
HOMEOWNER'S AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY INSURANCE

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Please
call for specific coverage questions. |
STOP
LOSS INSURANCE
FOR EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLANS

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The
cost of providing medical insurance to employees carries its own
risk. And for health care organizations that self-insure, the cost
of purchasing excess loss insurance to limit liability has gone
up dramatically during the last few years.
At
the same time, insurers have raised the aggregate claims levels,
significantly increasing your organization's liability. Now you
can protect against catastrophic claims and aggregate claims beyond
your organization's ability to pay through MHA Insurance Agency's
Stop Loss Insurance Program. Our program provides a review of your
existing coverage and provides competitive quotations to help you
save money. We can write stop loss coverage on any type of health
insurance plan |
VOLUNTARY
SHORT AND
LONG TERM DISABILITY
INSURANCE

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MHA’s
short-term disability program is designed to compliment your current
sick time/earned time policies by allowing you to select a benefit
formula that best fits your needs. Some of the features include:
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No minimum participation.
- Covers
only non-job related injuries or illnesses.
- Benefits
begin on the 15th day of illness/accident.
- Benefits
may be payable to 13, 26, or 52 weeks depending on the plan you
select.
- Guaranteed
issue, no medical questions asked.
- Plan
can begin any time during the year you select, with either annual
reopening or reopen at your next benefit reopening date.
- Employees
of MHA member hospitals who purchase the program through the MHA
Insurance
- Agency,
receive at no additional cost, $10,000 accidental death and dismemberment
insurance.
- Employees
may purchase up to $750.00 per week benefit based on their weekly
salary.
- Minimum
participation by your staff, both at open enrollment and new employee
sign-up.
- Some groups may have the opportunity
to have a weekly benefit of up to
$1050/week.
It
is important to note that under the program, benefits are only payable
for non-work related accidents and illnesses which prevents “double”
dipping. |
HIV
INDEMNITY
INSURANCE

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The
HIV Indemnity Insurance Plan has been designed to reduce the financial
stress often faced by any individual who tests HIV positive.
More
importantly, it begins paying benefits long before the individual
meets most definitions of disability under employer sponsored disability
plans. Created specifically for health care workers, this innovative
insurance program is available at a reasonable rate. It gives your
employees the security and confidence that they will have some financial
support should they face this crisis.
The
plan features some major advantages:
- Coverage
for all health care employees working at least 4 hours per week
as well as all benefit eligible physicians.
- A
lump-sum benefit paid when an individual, while insured, is first
diagnosed as HIV positive (testing required).
- Complete
confidentiality is assured.
- Flexible
coverage amounts, including flat benefits or multiples of salary,
ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 (higher levels of coverage may
be considered).
- Two
year rate guarantee.
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INSURED
AND SELF INSURED WORKERS' COMPENSATION
INSURANCE/ADMINISTRATION

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MHA
Comp Services provides alternative strategies and proven methods to
reduce the cost of risk for insured/self insured Health Care Organizations.
MHA
Comp Services offers the following:
- Claims
Administration
- Loss
Control/Safety
- Customized
Management reports
- On-line
Internet Access
- Medical
Management Services
- Utilization
Review
- Medical
Bill Review
- Ergovention/Return
to Work
- Excess
Insurance Placement
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VOLUNTARY
DENTAL
INSURANCE

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As
you are well aware, it has become increasingly difficult, time consuming
and costly to recruit and keep qualified part-time personnel, especially
nurses. To
assist in retaining valuable part-time employees, MHAIA offers a
Voluntary Dental insurance Program with MetLife to those part-time
hospital employees who may not be eligible to participate inn the
group dental plan.*
The
following services are part of the dental program:
- A
dedicated Implementation Leader will be assigned to each hospital.
This project Leader serves as a liaison between you and MetLife
and also takes full "ownership" of ensuring a positive
customer experience during the entire installation of the dental
plan. The Implementation Leader personally meets on-site with
your benefits staff to fully explain the benefits program and
the installation process.
- MetLife
staffs Customer Care Centers that are available via a toll-free
number from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday-Friday, and from 6:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The following information is readily
available for each of your employees:
- A
Summary of Plan Benefits
- Preferred
Dentist Directories
- Dependent
Definitions
- Individual
Claims Status (once the Plan is effective)
- Claim
Forms
- Eligibility
Verification.
- MetLife
has a staff of experienced enrollers to conduct on-site employee
meetings to explain the new dental program and to assist with
enrollment. MetLife has a large number of participating dentists
within their PDP network - more than 47,000.
- MetLife
offers, as a standard service, a real-time internet-based system
called MetLink, which enables your staff to:
- Check
on the status of employees' claims
- Prepare
self-billing statements
- Remit
premiums electronically
- Enroll
new hires; terminate employees
- MetLife
maintains a web site where your employees can download a claim
form, request a directory of participating dentists, and even
receive driving directions to a dentist's office.
- To
ensure that the dental plan being offered is best suited to
your hospital's part-time employees you may choose from six
plan options.
*
If you do not have a group dental plan, you may offer this voluntary
plan to all employees working a minimum of 16 hours per week. |
CRITICAL
ILLNESS
INSURANCE

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Critical
Illness Insurance is a supplemental insurance that helps to replace
lost income and offset expenses not reimbursed by other types of inusrance.
Critical
Illness Insurance covers cancer, heart attack, stroke, major organ
transplant, kidney failure and coronary bypass (25%).
Critical
Illness Insurance:
- Pays
a lump sum upon diagnosis
- You
don't need to be disabled or terminally ill
- There
are no restrictions on the use of the money
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CANCER
INSURANCE

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The
need for cancer insurance is very real. Cancer
Insurance can help you deal with the financial issues that may be
associated with cancer detection and treatment.
Benefits
can be used to help pay for:
- Specified
cancer screening tests
- Radiation
and Chemotherapy
- Transportation
and lodging
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MANAGEMENT
COACHING/
OUTPLACEMENT SERVICES

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Call for specific programs. |
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