{"id":3210,"date":"2010-09-24T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:57:56","slug":"does-the-new-law-require-that-all-employers-offer-healthcare-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2010\/09\/does-the-new-law-require-that-all-employers-offer-healthcare-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the New Law Require That All Employers Offer Healthcare Coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beginning in 2014, businesses with 50 or more employees that do not offer coverage and have at least one full-time employee who receives a federal tax credit to purchase health insurance<\/a> on his own through an Exchange, must pay the federal government a $2,000 per-employee penalty. The first 30 employees would be excluded from this assessment.<\/p>\n

Employers with 50 or more employees that do provide coverage, but have at least one full-time employee who receives a federal tax credit to purchase health insurance on his own through an Exchange, will be assessed a penalty that will be the lesser of $3,000 per employee receiving a premium tax credit or $2,000 for each full-time employee, excluding the first 30 employees.<\/p>\n

Large businesses \u2013 those with more than 200 full-time employees \u2013 that offer health insurance will have to automatically enroll workers into a health plan<\/a>. An employee, however, may choose to opt out of this automatic enrollment into their employer\u2019s health plan.<\/p>\n

The above information\u00a0is from a post by BCBSNC\u00a0in 2010 and located\u00a0at bcbsnc.com.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For more information on health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at www.nchealthplans.com<\/a> or call our toll free number 888-765-5400 and speak with one of our qualified agents. Our agency provides coverage for health insurance in North Carolina through Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC). <\/a>You may qualify for a 15% healthy lifestyle discount if you are in excellent health. Call us for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Beginning in 2014, businesses with 50 or more employees that do not offer coverage and have at least one full-time employee who receives a federal tax credit to purchase health insurance on his own through an Exchange, must pay the federal government a $2,000 per-employee penalty. The first 30 employees would be excluded from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[23,293,423,820,424],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-and-blue-shield-of-north-carolina","tag-businesses","tag-health-care-reform","tag-the-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}