Setting Up Benefit Categories

After you set up a benefit group, you can create benefit categories to organize the plans within the group. Benefit categories group types of benefit plans. For example, an organization might offer two medical plans, a traditional-style plan and a health maintenance organization (HMO). You can define a benefit category called medical and link those two medical plans to that category.

Use benefit categories to associate the different categories of benefits that the company offers to a benefit group. Examples of benefit categories include medical, dental, life, and disability insurance, as well as flexible spending accounts.

When you set up a benefit group or benefit category, the system stores the information in the Generic Message/Rates table (F00191). Any additional or detail information that you include is stored in the General Message Detail table (F00192).