A multi-employer welfare association, or MEWA, is a group of independent private employers who combine their employee health plans into one self-funded plan. Typically, a MEWA hires a claims administrator to make claim payments from a common fund financed by employer contributions. MEWAs are designed to give small employers access to low-cost health coverage similar to what’s available to large employers.
Multi-employer welfare associations
Multi-employer welfare associations are required to file some financial information with us and pay fraud and regulatory surcharges.
Resources for your organization
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Learn about the financial statements and other documents insurers and health carriers must file with our office and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
- What you owe for fraud and regulatory surcharges depends on your organization's type and the premiums you reported on last year's tax form.
- Learn what multi-employer welfare associations (MEWA) need to file as part of their annual financial information filing.
- MCAS filings are submitted through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), not to individual states.
- Find premium tax instructions, due dates, and schedules for health companies registered in Washington.
- Insurers and producers are required to notify our office when security breaches occur that involve private consumer information (i.e., Social Security numbers, etc.).