Form 5500 · Employee benefit plan · KNOXVILLE, TN
MASTER SERVICE COMPANIES, LLC
The filing calls this plan MASTER SERVICE COMPANIES HEALTH & WELFARE PLAN.
Public Form 5500 records show how MASTER SERVICE COMPANIES, LLC of KNOXVILLE, TN, a construction employer, structures its employee benefits. Its broker of record is ROBERT HOUGHTON. Coverage is written through BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC. and 5 other carriers. The plan's most recent policy period ended in September.
Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · EIN 26-2874958 · plan 501 · plan year 2025, filed Jul 24, 2026
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How this plan is funded
Fully insured as reported
The filing reports medical coverage through an insurance contract on Schedule A, and no money paid for benefits by the plan itself.
Benefits declared on this filing
Also declared: death benefits, other welfare.
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.
Where a line has more than one insured contract, the carrier and the covered figure are the largest contract's by premium. The contracts are not added up: a pharmacy carve-out and the medical carrier beside it cover the same people.
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 21 insured contracts covering health, dental, vision, life and disability; the largest, with BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC., covers 720 people.
Reported premium across the insured contracts is $2,642,746, with $91,526 in disclosed broker commissions — about 3.5% of premium.
The health contract's policy period ended in September, while at least one ancillary line's policy period ended in December. The plan is on a split renewal cycle.
ROBERT HOUGHTON is the broker of record on 1 of the 21 contracts; the rest name a different broker or none.
6 carriers appear on the filing, including BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC., CIGNA HEALTH AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, SYMETRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and UNITED OF OMAHA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC. writes the largest contract by premium.
Schedule A insurance contracts
Premium and claims on this contract
BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC., contract 129719. For the contract year on this filing, the carrier reported $2,294,433 in premium earned and $2,463,869 in claims incurred. Dividing one by the other gives 107%.
- BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE, INC., contract 129719 reported $511,678 in retention.
Retention is what the carrier kept of the premium after claims, as reported: administration, commissions and other charges.
Only experience-rated contracts report these figures, so most filings leave them blank.
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
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