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Small employer health insurance (new law)

Published (5/2/2008)
By Patty Ostberg
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State health insurers will be required to provide information on flexible benefit plans to employers with 50 employees or less, under a new law signed April 24 by Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

Sponsored by Rep. Denise Dittrich (DFL-Champlin) and Sen. Kathy Saltzman (DFL-Woodbury), the law will require health carriers to display the health plans on the carriers’ Web sites. Also, the information is to be delivered to each employer currently insured by the carrier at the time of the employer’s renewal.

“This bill is just one small step that we can take in helping small businesses finding more affordable health insurance,” Dittrich said.

The change comes from health care reform packages passed by the 2005 Legislature that were given to small employers, Dittrich said. The problem is insurance companies are not offering or marketing those plans, she said.

The law is effective Aug. 1, 2008.

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