Health Insurance 101
The Benefits Lifecycle
Benefits Potpourri
Health Insurance 102
100

Small group health insurance is generally referring to companies with up to ____ full-time employees.

What is 50?

100

Name 3 types of Qualifying Life Events

What is change in marital status, birth/adoption or loss of prior coverage?

100

In order for Gusto to be the broker for the group, they must offer which type of coverage?

What is medical?

100

Name the four types of health insurance plans?

What is HMO, PPO, EPO, POS?

200

List the four metal tiers

What is Bronze, Silver, Gold & Platinum?

200
This is how long an employee has to make their changes to their benefits when a Qualifying Life Event happens.

What is 30 days?

200
What is the difference between payroll deductions and a premium?

What is a payroll deduction is the amount withheld from an employee's payroll check and a premium is the amount to be paid for an insurance policy?

200

Describe the difference between internal and external benefits?

What is that internal benefits are managed through Gusto and external benefits are managed by the group?

300

This type of plan does not cover out of state employees

What is the HMO plan type?

300

These are the two ways a group can get started with benefits at Gusto

What is the Broker of Record Transfer process and the New Plans process?

300

Who are the players in the Small Group Health Insurance world?

Who is the employee, the employer, the broker, the provider and the carrier?

300

List 5 examples of a pre-tax benefit.

What is Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, FSA, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401(k), SEP IRA, SARSEP, Simple IRA, 403(b), Commuter, HSA, FSA, DCFSA?

400

The type of life insurance that Gusto offers is ____

What is Basic Life Insurance?

400

After an employee leaves a company, Gusto will send Continuation related information ____ days after their dismissal date.

What is 3 days?

400

What are the types of Tax Advantaged Accounts Gusto supports?

What are Health Flexible Savings Account (Health FSA) Dependent Care Flexible Savings Account (DCFSA), Health Savings Account (HSA), and Commuter?

400

Describe how post-tax benefits work

What is that these benefit deductions are taken from an employee's paycheck after taxes have already been deducted? (Due to this they have no effect on the amount of taxes taken from that paycheck)

500

The five ancillary benefits that Gusto offers are _____

(excluding TAdAs)

What is Dental, Vision, Life, Short-term Disability, and Long-term Disability?

500

After a year goes by, the group will go through _____. This is where the employee can make changes to their benefits, including changing plans or adding dependents.

What is Renewal or Open Enrollement?

500

Which Gusto internal software will you find the benefit deduction breakdowns?

What is Hippo?

500

Describe the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

What is the ACA is a federal law that aims to make healthcare more affordable and accessible to Americans?