Ohio Code 3119.29 – Health insurance coverage for children definitions
As used in this section and sections 3119.30 to 3119.56 of the Revised Code:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3119.29
- Administrative child support order: means any order issued by a child support enforcement agency for the support of a child pursuant to section 3109. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
- child support enforcement agency: means a child support enforcement agency designated under former section 2301. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Child support order: means either a court child support order or an administrative child support order. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Income: means either of the following:
(a) For a parent who is employed to full capacity, the gross income of the parent;
(b) For a parent who is unemployed or underemployed, the sum of the gross income of the parent and any potential income of the parent. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Obligee: means the person who is entitled to receive the support payments under a support order. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Obligor: means the person who is required to pay support under a support order. See Ohio Code 3119.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Support order: means either an administrative child support order or a court support order. See Ohio Code 3119.01
(A) “Health care coverage” means such medical support that includes a health insurance coverage or a public health care plan, payment of costs of premiums, copayments, and deductibles, or payment for medical expenses incurred on behalf of the child.
(B) “Health insurance coverage” means accessible private health insurance that provides primary care services within thirty miles from the residence of the child subject to the child support order.
(C) “Health plan administrator” means any entity authorized under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code to engage in the business of insurance in this state, any health insuring corporation, any legal entity that is self-insured and provides benefits to its employees or members, and the administrator of any such entity or corporation.
(D) “National medical support notice” means a form required by the “Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998,” P.L. 105-200, 112 Stat. 659, 42 U.S.C. § 666(a)(19), as amended, and jointly developed and promulgated by the secretary of health and human services and the secretary of labor in federal regulations adopted under that act as modified by the department of job and family services under section 3119.291 of the Revised Code.
(E) “Person required to provide health insurance coverage” means the obligor, obligee, or both, required by the court under a court child support order or by the child support enforcement agency under an administrative child support order to provide health insurance coverage pursuant to section 3119.30 of the Revised Code.
(F) “Reasonable cost” means that the cost of health insurance coverage to the person required to provide health insurance coverage for the children who are the subject of the child support order does not exceed an amount equal to five per cent of the annual income of that person.