Benefit plan question

[Former Member]

Dear all:

   We have some medical plans, with employee and employer contribution (ie 2 different wage types). There is an additional employer expense for every medical plan related to pharmacy expenses, which is currently being posted directly in FI with excel.  We would like to include this expense as a wage type and tie it to the medical plans, I have 2 ideas so far:

1) Create a new plan for this pharmacy expense with 100% employer contribution. This plan should somehow get created when the medical plan is created, and should be transparent for the employees

2) Create some rules in the scheme so that the wage type is created when the employee has the medical plan

Any idea or advise in this topic will be greatly appreciated!

Regards

[former_member182083 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I feel you need to go with the option 2 , create rule in schema so WT will be created when employee has medical plan.

With Regards,

S.Karthik

[Former Member]

Thank you guys! After a meeting with the user, it turned out that it is not really as my first post stated. The amount for the pharmacy expenses will depend on some values of the medical plan, and may be in the future they will start charging the employees for this deduction, so the best option is to create a new benefit for the pharmacy, which will have to be transparent for the employees by now, and a mirror of the medical plan.

My idea then is create a program that runs every night and synchronize both plans: create the pharmacy if the medical plan is created, update the pharmacy if the medical is changed and so on. I have not found anything better than that

[former_member193210]

Either way could work.

In option 1, make the Pharmacy Plan a "co-requisite" of the Medical Plan so that an employee could not have only one of them, both would be required.

In option 2, as mentioned by S.Karthik, the PCR could generate the additional WT only when the Medical Plan WT is present, and you could use constants in V_T511K to manage the Premium Rates.