{"id":2382,"date":"2011-07-15T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/?page_id=2382"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:01:20","slug":"required-benefit-documents-and-notices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/benefits\/required-benefit-documents-and-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Benefit Documents &amp; Notices"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/reference\/employee-handbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee Handbook<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Employee Handbook\u00a0is a resource for information regarding\u00a0policies, employment,\u00a0benefits,\u00a0payroll processing and administration and environmental health and safety as they relate to employment at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/benefits\/required-benefit-documents-and-notices\/bates-retirement-plans-summary-of-plan-services-and-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retirement Plan Fee Disclosure Notices<\/a> &#8211; Plan and Investment Notices help you make informed decisions when managing your retirement account.\u00a0 The notice includes a comparative chart of investment fund performance and related fees for the investment fund options you have under the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ retirement plans.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"HIPAA Privacy Notice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/files\/2011\/07\/hr-hipaa-privacy-notice-update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HIPAA Privacy Notice<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; You may have received a Privacy Notice from your medical insurance carrier or your doctor\u2019s office regarding how they handle your medical information.\u00a0 A Privacy Notice outlines the procedures for handling \u201cprotected health information\u201d or PHI as a result of the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).\u00a0 The requirements of HIPAA apply to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Healthcare Reimbursement Account Plan as well because you submit PHI when submitting a claim to Group Dynamic, Inc.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Initial COBRA Notice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/files\/2011\/07\/hr-initial-cobra-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Initial COBRA Notice\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; This notice provides you with a summary of your rights to continue your medical and dental coverage under COBRA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/benefits\/all-required-benefit-documents-and-notices\/medical-plan-notices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Plan Notices<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Find various required notices and disclosures regarding the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Medical Plan here including the Medicare Notice of Creditable Coverage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/benefits\/all-required-benefit-documents-and-notices\/summary-annual-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summary Annual Reports<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Similar to how you must file your tax forms each year with the IRS, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ must file an annual informational report for various benefit plans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/benefits\/all-required-benefit-documents-and-notices\/summary-plan-descriptions-and-certificates-of-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summary Plan Descriptions and Certificates of Coverage<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Find links to the Summary Plan Descriptions and Certificates of Coverage that describe the various benefit plans available at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Handbook\u00a0&#8211; The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Employee Handbook\u00a0is a resource for information regarding\u00a0policies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2382","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2382\/revisions\/12081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}