Health plan & appeal guide
Stoel Rives, LLP
This employer has both kinds of coverage. The company on your insurance card decides which rules apply to you.
How we know · medium confidence
- This employer files 2 health plans for this group; we judged them together.
Stoel Rives Welfare Benefits Plan · 630 people · Both kinds
- The filing says benefits are paid from the employer's general assets.
- Medical insurance bought from Kaiser Permanente is on file, covering about 118 people.
- Medical insurance is on file, but the plan also pays benefits from the employer's own money, so some options are likely self-funded.
- The insured options cover only about 19% of the 630 participants, so most people in this plan are in the self-funded part.
Stoel Rives Self-insured Medical Plan · 538 people · Self-funded · federal rules
- The filing lists stop-loss insurance (Commencement Bay Risk Management). Employers buy stop-loss only when they pay claims out of their own money.
- The filing says benefits are paid from the employer's general assets.
- The filing says benefits are paid from a trust the plan controls.
- No medical insurance contract is on file (Schedule A).
Double-check in 30 seconds: “Self-funded”, “administered by” or “ASO” on your card or plan summary means self-funded. “Insured by” or “underwritten by” means insured.
Which company is on your insurance card?
It’s printed on the front of the card. The filing shows which companies sell insured options here and which ones run the self-funded plan.
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