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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500

Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.

Healthcare & social assistance · Huntsville, Alabama · EIN ending 9328 · doing business as Wellstone Behavioral Health

Updated Filing received by DOL

Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc., a healthcare & social assistance employer in Huntsville, Alabama, reported 387 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2024. Its Form 5500 shows $2.6M in insurance premiums across 4 contracts and $44,568 in broker commissions and fees, 0.0% of medical premium against a national median of 3.8% among plans that paid commissions in plan year 2024. The plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. The Department of Labor received the filing on July 31, 2025, before the deadline.

Participants
387
−6.3% vs 2023
Premiums filed
$2.6M
+28.8% vs 2023
Broker commissions + fees
$44,568
+16.6% vs 2023
Commission rate
0.0%
of medical premium · median 3.8%

Who was paid on Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.'s plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc. filed for 2024.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Employee Benefit Strategies · Huntsville, AL$22,220$15$22,2353

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2024, as published in EBSA's 2024 "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
Alabama Local Government Health Insurance Planhealth366$2.6M——
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companydental, vision629—$15,144—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded104—$5,180—
United of Omaha Life Insurance Companylife, short-term disability, long-term disability281—$24,244—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc. 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
Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.
$44,568
Commission rate, % of medical premium
Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.
0.0%

Premium per covered person on medical contracts: $7,035 a year (national median $7,274).

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

Year over year

$2.0M$2.6MPremiums$38,239$44,568Broker pay20232024
Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2023 vs 2024
20232024Change
Participants413387−6.3%
Premiums filed$1,999,055$2,574,666+28.8%
Broker commissions + fees$38,239$44,568+16.6%
Commission rate0.0%0.0%+0.0 pts

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2023 and 2024.

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
Hsv-Madison County Mental Health Center Flexible Spending Acct Plan#501 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024July 31, 2025before deadline387

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 Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc. pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2024?

Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.'s 2024 Form 5500 reports $44,568 in broker commissions and fees across 4 insurance contracts ($44,553 in commissions, $15 in fees), with Employee Benefit Strategies receiving the largest share.

Is Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.'s health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2024 filing indicates the plan is a mix of insured and self-funded coverage. Medical coverage is written by Alabama Local Government Health Insurance Plan.

How does Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc.'s broker compensation compare with similar employers?

Huntsville-Madsion County Mental Health Board, Inc. paid 0.0% of medical premium in commissions and fees. The median for employers with 200-499 participants is 3.6%, and the median in Alabama is 3.7%. Percentages are computed only on fully insured medical contracts with filed premiums.

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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.