Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) has confirmed that employers must provide health insurance for their workers (Saudi nationals and residents of other countries working in the private sector) and their dependents.
Companies in the Kingdom who fail to provide medical insurance to their employees face a fine of up to 20,000 riyals per employee. Work is underway to establish an integrated link with the Health Insurance Council to identify workers without health insurance and to deal with them online as soon as possible.
According to AL-Eqtisadiah newspaper, companies violating medical insurance regulations and failing to provide health insurance to their employees will be subject to penalties.
Category wise fine on companies for not providing Health Insurance to its workers :
The violating companies with 51 or more employees shall pay a fine of 20,000 riyals on each employee in category A who is uninsured. The category B with 11-50 employees will pay 5,000 riyals per employee, and the category C with 10 or less employees will pay 2,000 riyals per employee.
Additionally, the Ministry stated that it monitors violations through its field and office monitoring visits and immediately handles reports received through the Ministry's call center or Together for Monitoring application regarding violations of labor law.
- The Ministry, in coordination with the Health Insurance Council, conducts continuous campaigns to ensure that all companies and establishments comply with the regulations of health insurance.
In Saudi Arabia, over 10 million (10,070,879) people have health insurance policies. More than 6.5 million (6,567,734) Saudis were employed, with 1,500,220 Saudi nationals, 5,067,514 expatriates, 2,146,090 Saudi dependents, and 1,357,055 expat dependents.
A recent conference organized by Health Insurance Council entitled "Software Conncectathaon" aimed at easing the process of linking to the unified national health platform Nafis, reported Saudi Gazette.
The event seeks to raise the level of quality and efficiency of services and transactions in the health insurance sector and to contribute to finding solutions to issues faced by insurance stakeholders.
- In view of the participation of health insurance companies, service providers, and linkage companies, the Health Council is intensifying its efforts to promote digital transformation and use of technical solutions.
SOURCE : SAUDI EXPATRIATES
