
Fiduciary duty
ERISA Fiduciary Duty and Payment Integrity: What Employers and Carriers Should Know
Employers with ERISA fiduciary duties cannot ignore improper claim payments. What employers, carriers, and TPAs should know about payment integrity.
A Critical Illness benefit is a single, often large payment, and the plan's terms decide whether and how much it pays. For the benefits configured for your plans, Trestl checks each claim against those terms before payment and can review the supporting clinical documentation.
A spouse benefit paid at the wrong rate
Claims are checked against the member’s plan before payment, and every finding shows its reason.
Claims for the benefits configured for your plans are checked against the conditions the plan covers.
The rate and timing terms configured from your plan are applied before payment, and a payment they do not support is flagged.
Supporting clinical documents are reviewed with AI assistance, and a possible mismatch is held for review.
Overpayment · Alex, whose spouse is covered under a group Critical Illness plan. The people and amounts are made up.
Day 1
Alex’s spouse is diagnosed with a covered condition, and Alex files the claim.
Without a check
The benefit pays at 100% of the employee amount, $20,000, instead of the plan’s 50% for a spouse.
Months later
An audit finds the error. A letter asks the family to return $10,000 during treatment.
With Trestl
The claim waits for an examiner before payment, with the reason. The examiner confirms it, and the family is paid the right $10,000 once.
The way your system already shares them.
Before your payment run.
With the reason in front of them. Claims that match pay on schedule.
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Fiduciary duty
Employers with ERISA fiduciary duties cannot ignore improper claim payments. What employers, carriers, and TPAs should know about payment integrity.
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