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• What are you protections under Group Health Plans in the State of New Mexico?
     Your protections will vary somewhat, depending on whether your plan is a fully insured group health plan or a self-insured group health plan. The plan’s benefits information must indicate whether the plan is self-insured.
• When does a group health plan have to let you in?
     In general, you have to be eligible for the group health plan. For example, your employer may not give health benefits to all employees such as part time, non-permanent, or seasonal employees. Or, your employer may offer an HMO plan that you cannot join because you live outside of the plan's service area.
• You cannot be turned away or charged more because of your health status.
     Health status means your medical condition or history, genetic information, or disability. This protection is called nondiscrimination. Employers may refuse or restrict coverage for other reasons (such as part time employment), as long as these are unrelated to health status and applied consistently.
• Discrimination due to health status is not permitted
     The Bellfry Company offers two different health plans. Full time employees are offered a high option plan that covers prescription drugs; part time employees are offered a low option plan that does not. This is permitted under the law. By contrast, in a cost-cutting move, Bellfry restricts its high option plan to those employees who can pass a physical examination. This is not permitted under the law.
• You must be given a special opportunity to sign up for your group health plan if certain changes happen to your family.
     In addition to any regular enrollment period your employer or group health plan offers, you must be offered a special, 30-day opportunity to enroll in your group health plan after certain events. You can elect coverage at this time. If your group plan offers family coverage, your dependents can elect coverage as well. Enrollment during a special enrollment period is not considered late enrollment.
• Certain changes can trigger a special enrollment opportunity
  
  * The birth, adoption, or placement for adoption of a child
  * Marriage
  * Loss of other coverage (for example, that you or your dependents had through yourself or another family member and lost because of death, divorce, legal separation, termination, retirement, or reduction in hours worked)
  
  
• Under New Mexico law, newborns, adopted children and children placed for adoption are automatically covered under the parents’ fully insured health plan for the first 31 days, if the plan covers dependents.
     If the health plan does not provide dependent coverage, it must include an option to parents to provide dependent coverage for newborns, adopted children and children placed for adoption. The insurer may require that the parent enroll the child within the 31 days in order to continue coverage beyond the 31 days.
• If you have a disabled child, that child may remain covered under your fully insured group health plan after he or she reaches the age at which dependent coverage is usually terminated.
     To qualify, your adult son or daughter must be incapable of self-support because of mental retardation or physical disability and must be chiefly dependent on the policyholder for support. Proof of incapacity must be furnished to the insurer within 31 days of reaching the limiting age and may be required subsequently in the future.
• When you begin a new job, your employer may require a waiting period before you can sign up for health coverage.
     This waiting period, however, must be applied consistently and cannot vary due to your health status.
• When you begin a new job with health insurance through an HMO, the HMO may require a waiting period before coverage begins.
     This waiting period is called an HMO affiliation period, and you will not have health insurance coverage during this time. An affiliation period cannot exceed 2 months (3 months for late enrollees), and you cannot be charged a premium during it.
• If you have to take leave from your job due to illness, the birth or adoption of a child, or to care for a seriously ill family member, you may be able to keep your group health coverage for a limited time.
     WA federal law known as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guarantees you up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave in these circumstances. The FMLA applies to you if you work at a company with 50 or more employees. If you qualify for leave under FMLA, your employer must continue your health benefits. You will have to continue paying your share of the premium.
      If you decide not to return to work at the end of the leave period, your employer may require you to pay back the employer’s share of the health insurance premium. However, if you don’t return to work because of factors outside of your control (such as a need to continue caring for a sick family member, or because your spouse is transferred to a job in a distant city), you will not have to repay the premium. For more information about your rights under the FMLA, contact the U.S. Department of Labor.

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