Application for a license must be made on forms prescribed by the director or his designee. No multiple employer self-insured health plan may be licensed unless it has and maintains a minimum of two hundred fifty covered employees.
Not later than March first of each year every multiple employer self-insured health plan shall pay to the department a license fee equal to two percent of the claims paid by the plan during the immediately preceding calendar year. All the funds collected by the department must be deposited in the general fund of the state.
S.C. Code § 38-41-30