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Mediflex Claims Submission Changes
Beginning with the cafeteria plan year 2006-2007, all claims are to be sent directly to Employee Benefit Concepts, who is our cafeteria plan administrator.
Claims, along with receipts, should be mailed directly by the tenth (10) of the month. Be sure to keep a copy of the receipts. Those that arrive after the checks have been cut will be carried over to the next month. Be sure to put the correct amount of postage on your claims. Please click here for the new claim form. Claims can be mailed to:
Employee Benefit Concepts
ATTENTION: Pat White
Claims may also be faxed as long as the original is a clear, dark copy. The fax number is 205-758-5028.
Employees who are claiming dependent care or flex health premiums do not need to send in a claim form each month. Checks will automatically be cut on authority of the contract.
Employees, who have balances in your mediflex account at the end of August 2009, will have the opportunity to collect the balance. Services must be incurred prior to November 15, 2009. You have until November 15, 2009, to send in claims for this balance. Please use a separate claim form for these claims and clearly mark these claims “2008/09 plan year”.
The IRS issued a ruling last year that allowed for a 2 ½ month grace period for mediflex. This ruling allowed an employee who had money left in the mediflex account to have an additional 2 ½ months after the end of the plan year to spend any money left over. After the 2 ½ month grace period is over and an employee had money left in his account, that money will come under the “use it or lose it rule” and he/she would lose the money left. The money reverts back to DSU.
When an employee makes an election for a new plan year, he should make estimates based on the twelve-month plan year just as usual. The intention of the IRS is not to give employees 14 ½ months of spending, but to give employees with money unintentionally left over a way to use that money.
State of Mississippi Health Insurance Rates
Due to the rise in claim expenses for the State of Mississippi, the State Office of Insurance has issued a rate increase for the state health plan. Listed below are the new rates for fiscal year 2010. Please click on the link below to view the current rates effective July 1, 2009.
http://knowyourbenefits.dfa.state.ms.us/Ins%20PDFs/FY%202010%20Premium%20Rates.pdf
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