Compliance
Resources

Compliance
Resources

Health Care Reform Consulting and Analysis

One of the best ways to ensure an inclusive, compliant, and nondiscriminatory benefits program is to help clients navigate and unravel all the elements of Health care Reform. We provide our Client with the resources they need.

Expert Advice
Our Team of Advisors will work to minimize the risk of non-compliance and educate you on the impact of healthcare regulations.
Reform Updates
We will pro-actively keep you informed as laws and requirements change.
Compliance Tools 
Our team will create helpful checklists and summaries for you and your clients, with regular updates, as changes occur in the market.
ACA Partnerships
Through our strategic partnerships you will have access to the best legal, reporting and compliance management resources.

Understanding the many nuances of health care reform legislation associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can bequite challenging, and now there is even more uncertainty with changing rules and regulations. We are here to help you,your clients, and prospects get in front of it all.

   Full-service compliance support: ERISA, COBRA, ACA Reporting, HR, and more.

Benefits Compliance Consulting & Analysis

We will help you manage the endless array of required COBRA notifications and stay on top of the latest mandates associated with ERISA law. We have partnered with many leading industry vendors that specialize in Benefits and Human ResourcesCompliance.

Benefits Compliance Service Highlights:

ERISA Compliance

  • Plan Document
  • Summary Plan Description
  • Wrap Documents
  • POP Document
  • Amendments
  • All required forms and schedules including Form5500
  • Medicare Pard D required notices
  • Requiredrecord-keeping

COBRA Compliance

  • All required communications
  • All required forms
  • All requiredrecord-keeping

ACA Compliance

  • Mailing Form 1095-C
  • Electronic filing of 1094-C &1095-C
  • Required notices

Additional Compliance

  • Nondiscrimination testing
  • HIPAA Privacy &Security
  • EmployeeHandbooks

Unlimited Access to the Glanzer Group ThinkHR Workplace

Glanzer Group Groups will have unlimited access to our comprehensive HR compliance resource center integrated with live experts to help resolve urgent workforce issues and provide HR compliance support.

The Glanzer Group ThinkHR Workplace offers these great features:

ThinkHR Comply

A comprehensive resource center for all of your work force issues.

  • Regional and national compliancenews, newsletters and alerts
  • Job descriptionbuilder
  • Performance review tools
  • Salary benchmarking
  • Health Care Reformcenter center
  • Employee Handbook Builder
  • Compliance guidelines and checklists
  • HR AuditChecklist
  • Whitepapers and webinars library
  • 1,000 of downloadable forms and tools
  • Q & A database

ThinkHR Live*

A team of HR experts standing by to answer questions and provide advice.

ThinkHR Live’s team of experienced HR Advisors are there in the moment that matters to point you in the right direction, offer a second opinion, or coach you on critical workforce issues.

  • Calls answered live every day
  • Accessible 9am-8pm EasternM-F
  • Senior level experienced HR professionals withPHR® and SPHR® designations

Get Answers and advice on the go with the Mobile App!

ThinkHR Benefits Document Creator

The ThinkHR Benefits Document Creator Allows for the creation of WRAP and POP documents through an intuitive interface that makes it easy to customize documents to mirror benefit offerings.

  • Content in the Benefits Document Creator is monitored, reviewed and approved by attorneysat Marathas Barrow Weatherhead Lent, LLP, a well-known ERISA compliance specialist.
  • There is live support available from dedicated benefits experts to help answer questions and walk you through the process of creating these benefits compliance documents.
  • Documents can be created at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

“ ERISA penalties up to $156 per day (up to $1,566 per request), per plan. “

Employee Benefits Legal Support and Advice

To stay on top of a constantly evolving market, Glanzer Group has partnered with Thompson Hine, a top-ranked, nationalfull-service law firm with 400 attorneys in 7 different cities.

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    Thompson Hine’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group consists of approximately 25 professionals dedicated to providing counseling and assistance to employers of all sizes and industries.
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    Thompson Hine is ranked as one of the top Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practices amongOhio law firms by Chambers USA and the Legal 500.

The team at Thompson Hine is known for their knowledge and experience throughoutthe industry and routinely delivers assistance with these issues relating to welfare plan compliance:

  • Plan documentation and participant communications, including SPDs, SBCsand other required notices
  • Affordable Care Act compliance, including full-time employee issues,affordability, reporting, and plan design requirements
  • HIPAA privacy and security compliance and policy, including documentation,training and breach reporting
  • Cafeteria plan compliance, including mid-year election change requests,limited purpose/post-deductible FSAs, and grace periods/carryovers
  • Wellness programs, on-site medical clinics, and telemedicine
  • Mental health parity compliance
  • COBRA
  • HSAs, including interaction with Medicare
  • Claims/appeals, including both process and documentation
  • Domestic partner benefits
  • Spousal surcharges/eligibility rules
  • Nondiscrimination testing
  • ERISA status of voluntary benefits
  • IRS/DOL/HHS audits
  • Required reporting, including Forms 5500, PCORI fee calculation, andForm 8928 reports of group health plan violations
  • Vendor contract review and negotiation
  • M&A activity, including due diligence, purchase agreement reviewand assistance with integration activities
  • ERISA litigation