We are adding additional coverage options in our medical plan for 1/1/18. The existing coverage options will remain. We started the setup in test in the current plan and just added the new Coverage Options (BN17) with Active status. Then we added the new options on the Coverage Option Defaults (BN17.2) as Inactive in a new record effective dated 1/1/18. The question is - would it be better to create a brand new medical plan instead? The new options do appear and can be selected if we try to enroll an employee in 2017, but since the default record is inactive, the system will not allow it to be updated. Any thoughts on best practice for this?
