{"id":7412,"date":"2016-02-23T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:11:31","slug":"blue-cross-blue-shield-nc-group-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/2016\/02\/blue-cross-blue-shield-nc-group-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Cross Blue Shield NC Group Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Business-Group-Portrait-2595726.jpg\" alt=\"Business group portrait\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Business-Group-Portrait-2595726.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bigstock-Business-Group-Portrait-2595726-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \><\/p>\n<p>Are you a small business owner?\u00a0 Or, perhaps your company is opening a new office in North Carolina and you are interested in providing your employees with group health insurance.\u00a0 If so, consider a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina group health insurance plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/group_health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Group health insurance <\/a>is often less expensive than individual insurance and is a great way to give your employees a perk.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, group insurance can help employers by providing certain tax benefits.\u00a0 What an employer contributes towards the health insurance coverage of their employees is a deductible business expense and in some small group cases may even qualify for a tax credit.\u00a0 In addition, employees can often pay for their share of group health premiums using pre-tax dollars.\u00a0 Pre-tax treatment of employee contributions saves employee&#8217;s money and it\u00a0reduces net taxable payroll.\u00a0 These same tax benefits do not apply to individual health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in providing group coverage to your employees, talk with one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/about-jerry-ballard-associates\/\" target=\"_blank\">licensed and professional agents <\/a>to discuss your options.\u00a0 For more information on North Carolina insurance coverage, please visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.nchealthplans.com <\/a>or call our toll free number 888-765-5400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a small business owner?\u00a0 Or, perhaps your company is opening a new office in North Carolina and you are interested in providing your employees with group health insurance.\u00a0 If so, consider a Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina group health insurance plan. Group health insurance is often less expensive than individual insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[23,815,856,38],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-health-insurance","tag-bcbsnc","tag-group-health-insurance","tag-group-heatlh-coverage","tag-nc-health-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nchealthplans.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}