Raimondo proposes new fee to ensure employers offer health insurance

Mary MacDonald

02/15/2019

ASSESSMENT FEE: Gov. Gina M. Raimondo has proposed a fiscal 2020 budget that includes a Medicaid Employer Assessment Fee, which if approved would annually charge companies that employ 300 or more workers as much as a $1,500 penalty per employee who was not offered health insurance but then qualified for state-supported Medicaid.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A powerful disincentive for not offering employees health care insurance is included in the proposed 2020 budget introduced by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. If a large employer in Rhode Island does not provide health care insurance, and an employee then qualifies for state-supported Medicaid, the business will be charged as much as $1,500 annually, per

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