HEALTH PLAN NOTICES FOR BENEFITS ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES HIPAA SPECIAL ENROLLMENT RIGHTS If you are declining enrollment for yourself or your dependents (including your spouse) because of other health insurance or group health plan coverage, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents in this plan if you or your dependents lose eligibility for that other coverage (or if the employer stops contributing toward your or your dependents’ other coverage). However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after your or your dependents’ other coverage ends (or after the employer stops contributing toward the other coverage). In addition, if you have a new dependent as a result of marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents. However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after the marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption. To request special enrollment or obtain more information, contact the Plan Administrator. FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA) If the Company and employee (you) are covered under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), then you can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave during a 12-month period for one or more of the following reasons: • for the birth and care of the newborn child of the employee; • for placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care; • to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent) with a serious health condition; or • to take medical leave when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition. If you are covered by FMLA, you will have certain rights to maintain health benefits during the FMLA leave. You will be notified of any requirement for you to make any premium payments to maintain health benefits and the arrangements for making such payments along with the possible consequences of failure to make such payments on a timely basis (i.e., the circumstances under which coverage may lapse) and your potential liability for payment of health insurance premiums paid by the employer during your unpaid FMLA leave if you fail to return to work after taking FMLA leave. For more information about FMLA, contact the Plan administrator. GRANDFATHERED STATUS The Plan believes that none of the group health plans available under the Plan are “grandfathered health plans” as described under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Affordable Care Act”).
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