Administration of COBRA 
Purpose
This process gives you an overview of all the steps involved in administrating COBRA in your organization.
Process Flow
In order to determine which employees and/or dependents are eligible for coverage continuation, you
collect COBRA events periodically.
COBRA events are identified from infotype records. For more information, see
criteria for qualifying events.Once collected, events are stored in the system for use in the next step.
You use the
COBRA Letters function to do the following in a single step:
- Print a notification package for employees including an enrollment form
The events collected in step 1 provide the necessary information for generating personalized letters.
- Terminate employee participation in health plans
- Create COBRA-Qualified Beneficiary (infotype 0211) records
- You periodically
monitor the COBRA election period to detect any beneficiaries who fail to communicate their decision regarding COBRA participation and remove them from the list of COBRA beneficiaries.
When employees communicate their decision regarding COBRA coverage, you
register COBRA elections. You can do the following:
- Enroll dependents in COBRA plans
- Waive COBRA rights or stop participation in COBRA (if an employee has already enrolled)
- You
print confirmation forms for employees who have enrolled.
You administer
payments for continued coverage (which must be made separately) as follows:
- You
print COBRA invoices and send them to beneficiaries.
You
register receipt of payments as they are received.
You
monitor payments to detect any overdue amounts, as a result of which you can withdraw the beneficiary concerned from a COBRA plan.
You can perform the following optional activities periodically:
Display a cost summary
Communicate data to a plan provider
Collect beneficiaries for advance notification of the end of COBRA coverage