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Health and Benefits Consulting

Compliance Assistance

Cowden Associates helps our clients understand and comply with the legal requirements for group health and benefits plans. We keep our clients informed of new rules and regulations and are proactive in keeping health and benefit plans in compliance with changes with COBRA, HIPAA, FLMA, ERISA, and other regulations. We can make sure you are in compliance, assisting with:

• Vendor Contract Review
• Summary Plan Descriptions
• Annual Reviews
• Other Compliance Status

In addition to our experienced consultants, our clients have access to our on-line web-based tool – HRInsider^sm - that provides industry news, legislative guides and latest benefit related benefit information.

Services by Topic

• Administrative Assistance
• Accounting Disclosure & Expense
• Benchmarking
• Benefits Enrollment
• Collective Bargaining Negotiations
• Communication Assistance
• Compliance Assistance
• Data Management
• Defined Benefits Plan Freeze Analysis
• Economic Cost Model Tools
• Employee Education
• Executive & Board Compensation
• Fiduciary Review
• Financial Assistance
• Investment Analysis
• Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence
• Operational Review
• Plan Design Strategy
• Renewal Evaluation & Analysis
• Retiree Medical/Life Analysis
• Retirement Calculations
• Total Compensation Review
• Valuation Consulting
• Vendor Management

Cowden Associates, Inc.
Four Gateway Center
444 Liberty Avenue
Suite 1900
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1222
ph: 412-394-9330
f: 412-394-9989