The Healthcare Plan Fiduciary

A new regulatory environment confronts the employer-sponsored healthcare plan community, driving the need for unprecedented adjustments in how its members must manage their plans. Existing employee benefit plan committees will need to transform and new committees will need to organize to handle the greater risks.

 

The 4D Framework

The Roland|Criss 4D FrameworkTM signifies a fundamental change in the way employee benefit plans achieve effectiveness.

How the 4D Framework works

Our Firm’s Practice


We help employers function, adapt, and evolve in an increasingly complex environment so they can produce the best results for their employees and their enterprises, whether it be through the administration of employee benefit plans, auditing of support systems like payroll and vendors’ fees, monitoring service providers’ cybersecurity networks, or tailoring control frameworks that underpin retirement plans.

Our Approach to Risk Advisory

Retirement Plans

As an independent ERISA 3(16) plan administrator, we blend a comprehensive governance, risk management, and compliance framework with years of frontline experience to relieve clients of regulatory and legal risks, and maximize the performance of their plans’ service providers.

Investment Risk

By integrating with our GRC framework, our clients’ modernize their investment decision-making practices for their retirement and pension plans and align fees with the new pricing paradigm.

Third-Party Risk Management

We help clients select and monitor the vendors that serve their retirement, pension, healthcare, and welfare benefit plans by evaluating the quality of their services and the reasonableness of their fees.

Cybersecurity

We provide fiduciary committees with the risk assessments, procedures, and AI-enabled vendor monitoring they need to manage their role as the main guarantor of the security of benefit plan assets and data. Our assessments adhere to guidelines issued by the Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) and standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”).

Payroll Risk Management

We help clients avoid the threat payroll errors pose to the accuracy of their retirement plans through independent verification and reconciliation.

Healthcare & Welfare Plan Compliance

Our assessments of service providers to healthcare and welfare plans help our clients comply with regulations enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Empowering Leaders

We initiated this online forum to enable collaboration among executives who appreciate employee benefit plan risks and strive to reduce them through knowledge and tactics. Participation is available for members of committees that oversee retirement, pension, healthcare, and welfare plans.

MORE INSIGHTS

Cybersecurity and ERISA plan management

In the face of an exploding number of cybersecurity breaches of employers’ in-house IT systems, retirement plan recordkeepers, payroll services, and healthcare providers, the standard of care for qualified employee benefit plans has jumped.

AI: Beyond the Hype

it’s crucial to address concerns related to data privacy, security, and integration with existing infrastructure when vendors incorporate artificial intelligence in their employee benefit plan servicing models.

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Stewardship maturity in HR

Human resources leaders occupy a critical stewardship role; their maturity in that position is vital to millions of participants and their beneficiaries in 401(k), 403(b), and health and welfare plans.

Our focus on fiduciary excellence

Providing assurance and building trust among your board members and your employees in a risky world.

Independent administration and compliance

What can you do to lighten your retirement plan operations burden and regulatory risk exposure?

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Employees are asking questions about costs

Is your enterprise able to make a convincing case for the fairness of its retirement plan fees? Roland|Criss can help you provide a credible answer.

Modernizing employee benefit plan oversight

Roland|Criss’ resource for streamlining operations and ensuring your compliance with fiduciary standards.

Why investment decision-making is not easy

Making decisions about investments can be difficult, in part because of the selection of money managers and investment advisors. Seeking advice from a second source might be wise.

How to maintain assurance

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) does not describe how to satisfy its vague fiduciary principles, so how do employee benefit plan managers know if they’re doing the right things the right way?

The investment policy audit

An annual audit of the investment policy that supports a retirement or pension plan has eight key objectives.

The Deep End of the Vendor Pool

Changes in regulatory rules and guidelines expand the categories of vendors who fall within an employer’s duty to monitor service providers for their qualified employee benefits plans.

MULTI-MEDIA FEATURED

The Roland|Criss Podcast

Welcome to the Excellent Fiduciary Podcast, where you will hear interviews with experts in legal, risk management, and employee benefit plan operations and best practices.

Roland|Criss Webinars

Join our experts for the latest on tactics for meeting regulatory and risk management challenges head on.

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