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Form 5500 · Retirement plan · ASHEVILLE, NC

MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER, INC.

The filing calls this plan MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER, INC. RETIREMENT PLAN.

MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER, INC. of ASHEVILLE, NC files a Form 5500 for its retirement plan. Schedule A discloses 3 annuity or guaranteed-interest contracts held by the plan, written by PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and 2 other insurers. These are investment and funding contracts, not group health or welfare coverage. No medical, dental or life benefit is reported on this filing.

Agent of record (Schedule A)
Not disclosed
Contract year ends
Decemberas filed for plan year 2024

Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · EIN 56-1071426 · plan 002 · plan year 2024, filed Jul 17, 2025

Participants at the start of the year
1,312
Contracts on file
3
Contract value
$4,282,356
Plan year end
December

Plan brief

Schedule A lists 3 insurance contracts held by the plan — annuities, guaranteed-interest accounts or similar funding vehicles. The largest number are with PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

The contracts held $4,282,356 at the end of the plan year, as reported on Schedule A.

The filing discloses no agent commission on these contracts.

A Schedule A is filed for a retirement plan when plan assets sit in an insurance company contract. It reports the contract's balances and any agent commission. It does not report a health, dental or life premium, and it does not give a group renewal date.

The contract year ended in December.

Schedule A insurance contracts

CarrierContract typeCoveredYear endsContract valueCommission
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYAnnuity / GIC1,321December$1,358,943$0
TIAA-CREFAnnuity / GIC5December$135,038$0
VALICAnnuity / GIC0December$2,788,375$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.

See the filing at the Department of Labor

Administrator and service providers

Plan administrator on the filing
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER, INC.
EIN 56-1071426
PRINCIPAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Contract administrator · EIN 42-0127290
$213,240
paid directly by the plan
COLTON GROOME FINANCIAL ADVISORS, L
INVESTMENT ADVISORY · EIN 36-4540515
$0
paid directly by the plan

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.

Reported to OSHA

Reported to OSHA for 2025: 1,091 employees, 41 recordable cases, 0 days away from work.

EmployeesThe company's own average for the year
1,091
Hours worked
2,098,597
Recordable cases
41
Days away from work
0
Establishments filed under this EIN
18

Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application establishment data, 2025.

One establishment filed under this EIN is left out of these figures: the hours and employees it reported could not both be right.

What the plan holds

Plan assets at year end
$73,788,560
Paid out in benefits
$12,254,838
Participants at the start of the year
1,312
Participants with account balances
1,275

Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · Schedule H

Who runs the plan

Independent accountantEIN 41-0746749
CLIFTONLARSONALLEN LLP
Accountant's opinion (Schedule H, line 3a)
Unmodified

From Schedule H of this filing.

We can name the recordkeeper and the auditor for large plans, the ones that file a Schedule C or a Schedule H. Smaller plans do not have to report either, so for most 401(k) plans in the country that information is not public anywhere.

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