SAP ABAP IMG Activity OHBEN1122B (Define Cost Variants)
Hierarchy
SAP_HRRXX (Software Component) Sub component SAP_HRRXX of SAP_HR
   PA-BN (Application Component) Benefits
     PBEC (Package) Benefits - Customizing
IMG Activity
ID OHBEN1122B Define Cost Variants  
Transaction Code S_AHR_61002274   IMG-Aktivität: OHBEN1122B 
Created on 19981221    
Customizing Attributes BEN_00_PA_1_1_E0110   Health plans - mandatory - critical - all countries but SE 
Customizing Activity BEN_00_5UBH_A   View V_5UBH_A 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OHBEN1122B    

In this step you define cost variants to determine which factors influence the cost of a health plan for an employee. Variants are plan-specific; each plan has its own variant(s).

You do not enter any actual costs in this step. You simply define the possible ways in which costs for a plan can vary depending on selected criteria. You determine how costs vary for plan options and dependent coverage options in the step Define Health Plan Attributes.

Before you start to define cost variants, you need to do the following:

  1. Determine how often costs vary for all the combinations of option and dependent coverage that you have defined in each plan.

    This indicates how many cost variants you need. You can use the same cost variant more than once, for example, if costs are always identical for the dependent coverages 'employee only' and 'employee plus family' within a plan, regardless of the plan option.

  2. Determine how costs vary according to employee data.

    This determines how you need to set up your variants using employee groupings.

    For each variant, you can specify a parameter group and cost grouping to determine cost. You can also indicate whether the gender of employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria.

Example

In the Standard Medical plan, Option I allows the following dependent coverages, and the following cost variants are created for them:

Dep. coverage    Cost variant

EE    STRI - Standard cost I

EE+1    STRI - Standard cost I

EE+C    FAMI - Family cost I

EE+F    FAMI - Family cost I

Both the STRI and FAMI cost variants use the cost grouping feature to determine costs for different groups of employees. STRI also uses 'smoker' as a criterion.

Option II has identical dependent coverages and cost variant criteria. But because the deductible is higher than in Option I, the costs are lower. This means that different cost variants are required for Option II:

Dep. coverage    Cost variant

EE    STII - Standard cost II

EE+1    STII - Standard cost II

EE+C    FAII - Family cost II

EE+F    FAII - Family cost II

Requirements

  • You have defined all the health plan options and dependent coverages that you require.
  • You have created any parameter groups that you want to assign to your variant in the step Define Parameter Groups.

Activities

  1. Select the period for which the variant is valid.

    This period applies to all rules associated with the variant.

  2. Specify the criteria that are relevant to the calculation of cost in the variant.
    1. If required, enter a parameter group and indicate which of the referenced employee criteria groups you want to use.
    2. Set the Cost grouping indicator if you want to use this feature to group employees.
    3. Indicate whether the gender of the employees and whether or not they are smokers are cost criteria.
    4. Specify whether the age, gender, and/or smoker data of the employee, spouse, or domestic partner is used as the basis for calculating cost.
  3. If, for any of the criteria you have attributed to the variant, you want employees to be allocated to a grouping using values on a specific day, enter a cutoff day. Otherwise the system calculates the grouping based on the calculation base date.
  4. If you want to use a date other than the employee's hire/termination date as the start/end date for seniority calculation, enter a date override.

    For the calculation of seniority, you have the option of entering a calculation process instead of using the standard benefits calculation.

Further notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency I   Valid for countries specified 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OHBEN1122B 0 HLA0100328 Health Plan 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_5UBH_A V - View HRBEN0041  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20000117 
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