{"id":3212,"date":"2010-09-17T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2010-09-09T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:47:37","slug":"small-business-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2010\/09\/small-business-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business &#8211; Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Many small business owners have questions about how the Health Care Reform will effect them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Downtown_Buildings_2534841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3279\" title=\"bigstock_Downtown_Buildings_2534841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Downtown_Buildings_2534841-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Downtown_Buildings_2534841-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bigstock_Downtown_Buildings_2534841.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I own a small business and want to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance<\/a> for my employees and their families. Are there subsidies or other assistance to help me afford to coverage?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many small businesses will be eligible for tax credits of up to 35 percent. Businesses that employ fewer than 25 employees, pay average annual wages of $50,000 and pay at least half the cost of single coverage for their employees may be eligible to receive a tax credit.<\/p>\n<p>Employers with 10 or fewer employees that pay annual average wages of $25,000 or less per year may be eligible for up to a 35 percent tax credit in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the tax credit for eligible small businesses will increase to 50 percent of premiums paid.<\/p>\n<p>Full eligibility details will be provided by the Internal Revenue Service. You should review and discuss the full criteria with a tax professional to determine whether your business will qualify.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The above information\u00a0is from a post by BCBSNC\u00a0in 2010 and located\u00a0at bcbsnc.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance coverage in North Carolina<\/a>, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">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":"<p>Many small business owners have questions about how the Health Care Reform will effect them&#8230;. &#8220;I own a small business and want to provide health insurance for my employees and their families. Are there subsidies or other assistance to help me afford to coverage?&#8221; Many small businesses will be eligible for tax credits of up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[23,415,820,422,196],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bcbsnc-insurance","tag-bcbsnc","tag-blue-cross-blue-shield-nc","tag-health-care-reform","tag-insurance-in-nc","tag-small-businesses-in-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}