Employer Obligations

COL120106 CH. 95 COORDINATION OF BENEFITS Where a parent is required by a court or administrative order to provide health coverage, which is available through an employer doing business in Guam, the employer is required:

(a)To permit the parent to enroll under family coverage any child who is otherwise eligible for coverage without regard to any enrollment season or open enrollment restrictions;

(b)If the parent is enrolled but fails to make application to obtain coverage of the child, to enroll the child under family coverage upon application by the child=s other parent, by the Guam agency administering the Medicaid program or the Guam agency administering ''651 to 669, Title 42 United States Code, the child support enforcement program;

(c)Not to disenroll (or eliminate coverage of) the child unless the insurer is provided satisfactory written evidence that:

(i)The court order is no longer in effect;

(ii)The child is or will be enrolled in comparable coverage which will take effect no later than the effective date of disenrollment; or

(iii)The employer has eliminated family health coverage for all of its employees.

(d)To withhold from the employee=s compensation the employee=s share (if any) of premiums for health coverage and to pay this amount to the insurer.