Adding my spouse to my Health Care plan

[Oakenfold]

My wife recently got another job, she's leaving worst buy! (Not going to advertise for them by saying their name, you know who it is....) She has been part time since 8/07/05, the problem is they have had her in their HR system as full time, medical, dental, etc has still been deducted from her check. She has been attempting to get a COBRA/Hippaa letter from her current insurance provider (worst buy's group health plan) under worst buy since this time, they won't provide one until she is properly removed as having benefits from their system.

Today worst buy management fixed the status which won't update until next Thursday for the Insurance provider (which will be 09/01/05). The problem is that my Benefit Administrator needed a letter within 30 days from the ending date of her coverage (Her insurance provider says it will not fax a letter or mail one out for 2-3 weeks from next Thursday, or until the status updates).

Cliff Notes
Worst buy management borked my wife's employment status, deducted insurance payments, is now correcting them, Insurance provider won't mail out notice (HIPAA, COBRA) for 2-3 weeks, well outside the 30 day time period required to enroll her under my plan.

Thoughts?
I have started looking into Cobra/HIPAA regulatory requirements, I'm going to speak with the store GM (worst buy) tommorrow to see if I can straighten this out.
Time to pull out the dusty employee benefit manual from college...

 

[vi edit]

I don't think you'll want to see what the COBRA amount is...

At my previous employer, my monthly employee contribution for health ins was about $50 a month.

The same plan under COBRA was $750 a month.

D'oh!

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
I don't think you'll want to see what the COBRA amount is...

At my previous employer, my monthly employee contribution for health ins was about $50 a month.

The same plan under COBRA was $750 a month.

D'oh!

Not looking to enroll her in Cobra, I need the COBRA or HIPAA letter to enroll her under my employer's group benefit plan. Yes Cobra is very expensive, that's why I want to avoid it, still I have to have a letter certifying when her benefits with worst buy ended. (The 30 day problem).

 

[DrPizza]

Suggest to Best Buy that if their negligence leads to financial costs to you, you won't hesitate to take them to court to remedy the situation.