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Continuing Health Coverage Under COBRA

Health care and wellness program benefits for you, and your covered dependents, end as of the last day of the month in which you leave the firm. If you are currently enrolled in the Medical Plan (including the Fertility Benefits Program and Medical Reimbursement Account [MRA]), Dental Plan, Vision Plan, or Health Care Spending Account, you may elect to continue this coverage for you and your eligible covered dependents for up to 18 months by enrolling in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). Also, under COBRA, you may elect to continue participating in certain wellness-related programs offered through a single "bundled" election.
Under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), you and your covered dependents have the right to continue health care coverage at your own expense for a certain period of time if your JPMorgan Chase-provided health care coverage ends because of certain circumstances—called "qualifying events."
Your covered dependents include your spouse and your eligible dependent children who are covered at the time of a qualifying event (your "qualified beneficiaries," as defined below). For domestic partners, JPMorgan Chase may provide COBRA-like health coverage if the domestic partner was covered under the JPMorgan Chase Medical Plan, Dental Plan, Vision Plan, and/or Employee Assistance Program at the time coverage ended.
COBRA coverage applies to the Medical Plan as well as certain other health care plans.
If you elect COBRA Medical Plan coverage, the U.S. Fertility Benefits Program is included in that election.
More details about coverage under COBRA are available through the HR Answers Benefits Contact Center.
Qualified Beneficiary
Individuals eligible for COBRA continuation coverage are called "qualified beneficiaries." A qualified beneficiary includes the covered spouse and eligible dependent children of a covered employee, and, in certain cases, the covered employee.
Under current law, to be considered a qualified beneficiary, an individual must generally be covered under a group health plan on the day before a qualifying event occurs that causes a loss in coverage (such as termination of employment or a divorce from or death of the covered employee). In addition, a newborn child or a child who is placed for adoption with the covered employee during the period of COBRA continuation coverage is also considered a qualified beneficiary.