Form 5500 · Employee benefit plan · LOWELL, AR
ARVEST BANK
The filing calls this plan ARVEST BANK GROUP WELFARE BENEFITS PLAN.
ARVEST BANK of LOWELL, AR spreads its employee benefits across 3 insurance carriers, according to its Form 5500 Schedule A. Its broker of record is MERCER HEALTH & BENEFITS, LLC. Coverage is written through RELIASTAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 2 other carriers. The plan's most recent policy period ended in December.
Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · EIN 71-0118700 · plan 504 · plan year 2024, filed Oct 14, 2025
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How this plan is funded
Self-funded as reported
The filing reports benefits paid from the plan's own money, and no medical insurance contract on Schedule A.
A stop-loss policy appears on a Form 5500 only when the plan itself is the beneficiary, or the premiums are paid from plan money. Many employers buy stop-loss and never report it here. So a plan with no stop-loss on its filing may still have it.
Benefits declared on this filing
One contract on this filing does not say which benefits it covers, so a line above may be insured by it.
Declared benefits are the plan’s own line 8b codes on Form 5500. “Not on Schedule A” means no insured contract for that line appears on this filing. That usually means the benefit is self-funded, or it sits under a different plan number.
Persons covered is the count the carrier filed for that policy at the end of its policy year, and it can include dependents. Participants is the plan's own count at the start of its plan year. The two count different people, so a covered figure can be larger.
Plan brief
Schedule A lists 4 insured contracts covering vision, life, disability and stop-loss; the largest, with RELIASTAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, covers 11,218 people.
The filing declares vision, health and dental. Health and dental appear with no insured contract on Schedule A. That coverage may be self-funded, placed with a carrier that is not on this filing, or written on the contract here that does not say what it covers.
The only insured piece of the health benefit is stop-loss coverage, and the filing reports the plan paying its own claims. The stop-loss contract reports $1,854,425 in premium and $185,442 in commission. The rest of the premium and commission above is on the plan's other insured lines, and none of it is medical premium.
Reported premium across the insured contracts is $7,426,113, with $698,252 in disclosed broker commissions — about 9.4% of premium.
The most recent policy period ended in December, and the plan year ends December 31. Group contracts typically renew on that annual cycle.
Schedule A insurance contracts
| Carrier | Benefits | Covered | Renews | Premium | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RELIASTAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Life, Disability | 11,218 | Jan 1, 2025 | $4,787,526 | $497,030 |
| RELIASTAR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Stop-loss | 8,429 | Jan 1, 2025 | $1,854,425 | $185,442 |
| VISION SERVICE PLAN | Vision | 4,815 | Jan 1, 2025 | $623,182 | $15,780 |
| UNITED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DBA OPTUM | — | 6,397 | Jan 1, 2025 | $160,980 | $0 |
Covered = persons covered at policy year end, as filed on Schedule A for that policy — often certificates or one class, not the whole plan. Premium = the filing’s own premium/charges figure; “—” means not credibly reported.
Administrator and service providers
The plan administrator is from line 3a of the main form. The service providers are named on Schedule C of this filing. We publish company names only.
Money the plan held and paid out
Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · Schedule H
These are the plan's own figures from Schedule H, the financial statement it files. They are not the premium on Schedule A.
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