16 The Mainline Group Benefits, Insurance Discounts The Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The member group AHP can offer employer health benefits at a more completive rate structure for many employers. The AOL Health Benefit Trust is governed by member volunteers who serve on a five-person Board of Trustees, chaired by AOL member Kathryn Van Natta of Van Natta Bros. Two Trustees, Heidi Trambley of Blaine Timber LLC and Aimee Rude of Rude Logging LLC, are participating employers with benefits supplied by the Plan. The two additional Trustees are AOL Board of Director members Tom Dober and Rick Kriege. The Board of Trustees oversee the AHP business operations, including contracted services for a third-party administrator TailorWell, banking, accounting, AOL administration, and five authorized brokers whose agents sell the insurance. this plan. AOL staff and the interim trustee completed all authorizations and agreements necessary to create the Trust and AHP. The program began sales in February for its first enrollment in April 2024. Healthnet underwriters processed quotes many times on the same day. The HealthNet team worked tirelessly with AOL staff to process applications and chase necessary material. Their account staff helped set up account benefits ready for day one. AOL’s AHP Plan provides high-quality health insurance at discounted rates to member employers, employees, and families. AOL first had to establish a new subsidiary—a tax-exempt Health Trust, which directs the member AHP. Association Health Plan Overview and Update, January 2025 ›By Dave Boyd, Insurance Group Manager The AOL Association Health Plan (AHP) offering is nearing its first full-year of sales, to insure a growing number of AOL-member employees, owners, and families. Health Net of Oregon, Inc. has been a dynamic partner with the AOL Board of Trustees and our staff to make this program succeed. Health Net is a statewide PPO network with 21,000 providers, 75 hospitals, and no network gap in any Oregon county. The Health Net team late in 2023 worked with AOL staff to supply Oregon Department of Financial Regulation with the information needed to establish
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