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- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Health Insurance
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Supplemental Security Income
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Medicare
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Medicaid
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Drug Assistance Programs
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Life Insurance
- Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Long Term Disability Insurance
- What Happens To Public Benefits Such As Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicare Or Medicaid If I Have To Stop Working Again?
- What Happens To Benefits From A Current (New) Employer If I Have To Stop Working Again?
- What Happens To Benefits From A Previous Employer If I Have To Stop Working Again?
Return To Work For New Employer-Impact on Benefits
Effect Of Return To Work For A New Employer On Your Health Insurance
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The impact of returning to work on health insurance depends on the source of that insurance.
If your health insurance is from a prior employer and continues because of COBRA
Returning to work by itself does not effect COBRA. Your COBRA coverage will continue until its normal termination date as long as premiums are paid.
If your new job provides health insurance, COBRA ends as soon as the new plan takes effect and it begins to cover any pre-existing condition. While this is good news, on the down side you have to continue to pay the COBRA premiums.
You may not have to pay COBRA premiums if you had your previous health insurance long enough, and the gap between your old coverage and the new coverage is short enough. Under the federal law known as HIPAA, you can generally offset the amount of time you had your previous health insurance against a new pre-existing condition exclusion.
For more information, see COBRA and HIPAA-Portability.
If your health insurance is from a prior employer and continues because you are on disability leave
Some employers continue health coverage as long as the employee remains disabled or continues to collect Long Term Disability benefits. If this is the case, your coverage will end when your Long Term Disability benefits stop.
Discontinuing disability leave could be an event under the laws known as COBRA which would allow you to keep your former employer's health coverage until the new employer's coverage starts.
For more information, see COBRA.
If you purchased health insurance on your own
Your health insurance continues in force as long as you pay the premiums even if you obtain additional health insurance from your new employer. If you have two health insurance coverages, there are rules as to which company pays for what.
To learn more, see Coordination of Benefits.
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