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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2025 (latest filing) · Form 5500

Heartland Child & Family Services

Healthcare & social assistance · Sacramento, California · EIN ending 8325

Updated Filing received by DOL

Heartland Child & Family Services, a healthcare & social assistance employer in Sacramento, California, reported 154 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2025. Its Form 5500 shows 11 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $105,070 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). The Department of Labor received the filing on June 24, 2026, before the deadline.

Participants
154
+32.8% vs 2024
Premiums filed
none
premium not reported on 1 medical contract
Broker commissions + fees
$105,070
+30.3% vs 2024
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Heartland Child & Family Services's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Heartland Child & Family Services filed for 2025.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Acrisure · San Jose, CA$80,188$3,000$83,18810
Emerson Rogers LLC$21,469$0$21,4691
Attn Julie Greenberg · San Jose, CA$413$0$4131

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2025, as published in EBSA's 2025 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

Every insurance contract reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded38—$554—
California Choicehealth131—$90,742—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded34—$585—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companydental143—$3,850—
Health and Human Resource Centercoverage not coded168—$413—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded15—$432—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companylife163—$1,214—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companylife114—$4,412—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companylong-term disability63—$1,184—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companyshort-term disability82—$506—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companyvision142—$1,178—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2025. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Heartland Child & Family Services compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
Heartland Child & Family Services
$105,070
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$80,619$105,070Broker pay20242025
Heartland Child & Family Services: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2024 vs 2025
20242025Change
Participants116154+32.8%
Premiums filed$0$0not comparable
Broker commissions + fees$80,619$105,070+30.3%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2024 and 2025.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Heartland Child & Family Services Benefit Plan#501 · insuranceDecember 31, 2025June 24, 2026before deadline154

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did Heartland Child & Family Services pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2025?

Heartland Child & Family Services's 2025 Form 5500 reports $105,070 in broker commissions and fees across 11 insurance contracts ($102,070 in commissions, $3,000 in fees), with Acrisure receiving the largest share.

Is Heartland Child & Family Services's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2025 filing indicates the plan is fully insured (an insurance carrier pays claims). Medical coverage is written by California Choice.

How does Heartland Child & Family Services's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Heartland Child & Family Services because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 100-199 participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $53,852.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.