This document will highlight the differences between reporting as a self-insured company vs reporting as a normal group-insured company.

What is a self-insured company? A self-insured company is a company that self-funds their employee’s medical claims (i.e., they do not pay an insurance company like Blue Cross). Often, companies that self-fund their insurance will NOT pay the claims directly but will hire a third-party administrator to assist in the process. The first question to your 3rd party administrator is if they will be doing the ACA reporting. If not, you can do it yourself in Pak Accounting, but you will have to do some basic setup and then also add the dependents to the system.

To complete self-insured reporting, you will need to purchase the optional add-on module for ACA Reporting of Self-Insured Companies. Please email our sales department at sales@pakenergy.com to purchase this module.

The first step you’ll need to take (if you haven’t already) is to review the two existing ACA documents we have prepared for normal group-insured companies. Much of the information will remain the same for self-insured companies! These two documents are listed below, including the links to find them on our website. This current document will supplement those two checklists with specific information on self-insured options.

Also see:

ACA Initial Setup

ACA Reporting

From the ACA Initial Setup Checklist Doc:

• Step 1: Complete Step #1 from the Setup Doc as normal.
• Step 2: When setting up the Company Information, there are TWO important items to set up on this screen for a self-insured company:
  • You MUST mark the box asking, “Is your company self-insured?” and…
  • You MUST set up the 2 action codes shown below. There are two action codes for Self-Insured Start Date, one for more than 50 employees (>50) and another one for less than 50 employees (<50). This example uses the one for MORE than 50 employees. 
    This screen is found in the Master File Maintenance > Advanced Options > ACA tab: 
    
• Steps 3 & 4 should be completed from the ACA Initial Setup Doc as normal.
• Step 5 – Add Dependents (the dependent’s tab will become visible in employee master file maintenance after you have checked the option from the screen above that the company is self-insured). 
  Go to the Employee Master file and add each employee’s dependents on the new Dependents tab. You will need to either manually add each employee’s covered dependents on this screen or import them (from your third-party administrator) through the Utilities option on this screen. DO NOT ADD THE EMPLOYEE TO THIS GRID, AS THEY WILL POPULATE AUTOMATICALLY ON THE FORM ITSELF (the employee should NOT appear on this grid at all). 
  

Important Note: if there are more than 6 dependents (including the employee), this employee will have 2 forms printed for dependents; the 2nd sheet is referred to as an overflow page, and you will need to make sure when ordering tax forms to also order overflow sheets if you need them. Running this report to find out how many forms to order (ACA Reporting Checklist), it will give you a total for the overflow forms you will need to order. Look for the total Employees with more than 6 dependents line:

Importing Dependents from your Third-Party Administrator:

If your Third-Party Administrator gives you an Excel file to use for importing your dependents, Pak Accounting has an option to import the dependents for you!

In the Employee Master Maintenance Screen, Click on Util, and then select Import Dependents, then select OK to browse to your file:

The file must be defined as the columns listed on the prior screen with the following headers. Here is an example:

These columns can be in any order, but the import will match the data in the column SSNum (in this example SSNum happens to be Column A) with the Employee Master; this is how the import will know who the dependents belong to. If there are errors, you get a message and will be able to Launch Excel after the import to see what errors have occurred. Suppose the Social Security Number matches what is in the employee master file, for both SSNUM and DepSSNum. In that case, it will know not to add the employee themselves to the dependent tab in the Employee Master but will add all the dependents that are tied to that employee’s social security number.

From the ACA Reporting Checklist Doc:

All of the steps in the ACA Reporting Checklist Document will be valid for a self-insured company, but the reports that print will look a little different because you will be reporting dependent coverage on the 1095 report.

Dependent coverage is reported in Part IV of the 1095-B (if you have less than 50 employees) or Part III of the 1095-C (if you have more than 50 employees).