Health insurance premiums are expensive. An employer group health plan for your employees can actually save you and them money. Whether you are a large business with 50 or more employees and mandated to provide health insurance or a small business seeking to provide benefits like the large firms, having health coverage available for your employees is a real plus.
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Under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act any employer with more than 50 or 50 FTE (full-time equivalent) employees is required to offer health insurance. A full time is considered to be an employee who works more than 30 hours per week. Group health insurance for small business owners with less than 50 full time or FTE employees are not.
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As an employer you are obligated to pay at least 50% of the employee’s cost to cover them-selves. An employer may offer family coverage options but is not required to pay the cost for anyone other than the employee. Optional coverages maybe offered but the employer is not required to support these with any payment.
In order to qualify for employer group health insurance, a business must present the following documentation: Proof of location, proof of business type and payroll information. In general this type of information is available through a previous years tax information.
At ConsumerCoverage you have easy access to agents who can help you compare employer group health insurance plans.
Help with ACA requirements ensuring that the employer sponsored group health insurance you purchase will fulfill ACA requirements.
An agent will coordinate with your carrier to assure that all the people whom you wish to cover are offered the coverage you provide.
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Several companies that can be accessed here will accept a group as small as two members. So small employer group health insurance is available here along with agents and other assistance for the small business owner.
No, but they can be added to most plans as an optional purchase for the employees. They are not a part of a mandated health care package so the employer is not required to contribute any of the premium costs for these.
Lauren Lewthwaite Lauren Lewthwaite has been freelance writing for almost five years writing content that ranges from health to insurance and everything in between. Lauren is also a trained translator in French and English and is a dog-mom to an adorable Australian Shepherd.
