Employer liable for providing "meaningful" coverage to COBRA beneficiaries

Article Abstract:

Isis Coble v Bonita House, Inc concerned a laid-off employee's right to employer-provided continuation health insurance, even though the small, non-profit organization which had employed her no longer operated at the site where she had worked and the health insurance company they used for workers at that site had gone bankrupt. The court ruled that the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act gave her the right to employer-provided coverage and that employers, even small organizations, held an economic advantage over individuals in obtaining cost-effective medical coverage.

Employee benefits

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Group health plans need not provide COBRA coverage to individuals eligible for medicare as a result of end stage renal disease

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The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled in Blue Cross & Blue Shield v. Shalala that health insurers do not have to provide COBRA coverage for individuals whose end stage renal disease (ESRD) qualifies them for medicare. At issue in the case was the medicare as Secondary Payer Statute. The court felt that the statute's legislative history showed it was not enacted to create or prolong COBRA coverage. Thus, the court concluded that ESRD patients should be treated similarly to the elderly and disabled with their COBRA coverage ending when they become eligible for medicare.

Medicare

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