2020 MESSA Summits Our popular MESSA Summits, where employers can meet and mingle, ask questions, and learn about what’s happening at MESSA, will take place virtually this fall. Watch for more details coming your way in a future business bulletin. MESSA Services MESSA has solutions to address the challenges benefit administrators face every day. We …
Required Notices: Medicare Part D creditable coverage and new hire coverage options Employers are required by the government to provide their employees with certain notifications about their health plans. Two such required notices are detailed below. 1. Annual notice to Medicare-eligible employees regarding creditable coverage The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) requires that plan sponsors disclose …
Pandemic relief for your vision insurance premium To help ease the financial burden our employers are experiencing and demonstrate the committed partnership between MESSA, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for VSP, and the employers we serve, MESSA announces pandemic relief for your VSP vision insurance premium. Employers with an effective date of May 1, …
COVID-19 updates: Our commitment to you continues MESSA knows the COVID-19 pandemic has created a time of great uncertainty and complexity for our employers. As part of our commitment to keeping you informed, we would like to provide you with the following updates that impact you and your employees right now. Pandemic relief for your …
Important information affecting flexible spending accounts now CARES Act: Amended Section 125 documents coming from MESSA Many over-the-counter medications are now reimbursable without a prescription or a doctor’s note for employees with flexible spending accounts, requiring employers to have amended Section 125 plan documents. Additionally, feminine hygiene products are now reimbursable through an FSA. These …
COVID-19 MESSA has taken the following steps to ensure access to care for all MESSA members and their covered dependents: MESSA will fully cover medically necessary testing and treatment for COVID-19 for all MESSA members and their covered dependents. Members will not have to pay a deductible, copayment or coinsurance. MESSA will fully cover medical …
Thank you for your patience As MESSA navigates the COVID-19 outbreak, we are committed to providing you with top-notch service. At the same time, we are committed to keeping our employees and their families safe and healthy. We have temporarily reduced staffing in our Group Services Department so that some of our employees can care …
MESSA launches online community for benefits administrators MESSA is excited to announce the launch of our online User Forum, which provides employers the opportunity to connect, share and communicate with one another regarding topics in benefits administration and human resources. When people are brought together in an online community to discuss new ideas or address …
Changes in 1095-B tax form requirements Tax form 1095-B is generated by health insurance companies and provides proof that employees and their families had health insurance during the year. Beginning in 2020, the government no longer requires tax form 1095-B to be filed with individual tax returns. Therefore, MESSA will no longer automatically mail the …
MESSA LMS and Prescription Drug Plan rates effective Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2020 We are pleased to share that the 2020 rates for the MESSA LMS medical plan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) Medicare Part D group prescription drug plan are less than the 2019 rates. The lower rates are a …