Group Qualification. In order to qualify as an employer and to maintain eligibility for this employer health insurance Contract, the Group must be a bona fide person (including sole proprietors or self-employed individuals), firm, corporation (including Limited Liability Corporations, or LLCs), partnership (including Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)), association or trust, labor union or political subdivision. In order to be eligible, a Group must: accept billing on a consolidated basis and collect any required employee contributions via payroll deductions; be actively engaged in legal business activity; be licensed to conduct business in the state and obtain other business licenses as required by law; provide workers' compensation insurance to all employees legally required to be so insured; have employed an average of at least one employee during the previous calendar year, and employ at least one employee on the first day of the plan year. In all cases, a bona fide employer-employee relationship must exist in order for a Group to be eligible; and have a status as a legal entity with authority to contract for health insurance coverage and not be formed primarily for purposes of buying health insurance.
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Sources: Health Care Benefits Contract
Group Qualification. In order to qualify as an employer and to maintain eligibility for this employer health insurance Contract, the Group must be a bona fide person (including sole proprietors or self-employed individuals), firm, corporation (including Limited Liability Corporations, or LLCs), partnership (including Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)), association or trust, labor union or political subdivision. In order to be eligible, a Group must: • accept billing on a consolidated basis and collect any required employee contributions via payroll deductions; • be actively engaged in legal business activity; • be licensed to conduct business in the state and obtain other business licenses as required by law; • provide workers' compensation insurance to all employees legally required to be so insured; • have employed an average of at least one employee during the previous calendar year, and employ at least one employee on the first day of the plan year. In all cases, a bona fide employer-employee relationship must exist in order for a Group to be eligible; and • have a status as a legal entity with authority to contract for health insurance coverage and not be formed primarily for purposes of buying health insurance.
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Sources: Health Care Benefits Contract