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...The owners of interest in a medical savings account are the account holder and the account holder's spouse and dependents. No medical savings account shall be subject to garnishment or attachment.

...avings accounts for its employees; (8) Health insuring corporations organized under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code. (C) Each administrator shall send to the account holder, at least annually, a statement setting forth the balance remaining in the account holder's account and detailing the activity in the account since the last statement was issued. Upon an administrator's receipt of a written request from an acc...

...Each employer that opens a medical savings account for an employee shall inform the employee, in writing at the time the account is opened, of the federal and state tax status of deposits made to the account.

...t holder's policy, plan, or contract of health coverage, the account holder may withdraw funds from the account holder's account and use those funds to pay the premium for the first year of a policy, plan, or contract of health coverage for the dependent and to pay any deductible for the first year of that policy, plan, or contract. Funds withdrawn and used for that purpose shall not be included in the account holder...

...An account holder may withdraw funds from the account holder's account at any time, for any purpose. However, the administrator of a medical savings account shall not disburse funds to an account holder during the year in which the funds were deposited, except to reimburse the account holder for, or pay for, a documented eligible medical expense of the account holder or the account holder's spouse or dependent.

...(A) If an account holder, whose medical savings account has been opened by the account holder's employer, later ceases to be employed by that employer, the account holder may, within sixty days of the account holder's final date of employment, request in writing to the administrator of the account that the administrator continue to administer the account. (1) If the administrator agrees to continue to administer the...

...(A) An account holder may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries of the account holder's medical savings account. (B) Any funds remaining in a medical savings account upon the death of an account holder shall be distributed to the decedent's estate and shall be subject to taxation as part of the decedent's estate under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code.

...An employer making deposits to an employee's medical savings account on a periodic installment basis may advance to the employee, interest free, an amount needed to cover the employee's eligible medical expenses when such expenses exceed the amount then available in the employee's account, if the employee agrees to repay the advance from future installments or upon the termination of employment. If such an advance ca...

...Funds disbursed from a medical savings account pursuant to a filing for protection by an account holder under Title 11 of the United States Code shall not be included in the account holder's Ohio adjusted gross income for the year of disbursement in determining taxes due under Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code.

...se of policies, plans, and contracts of health coverage. The superintendent shall make the brochure available, upon request, to consumers, insurers, and other third-party payers. The superintendent may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement this section.

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Health care insurer" means any person legally engaged in the business of providing sickness and accident insurance contracts in this state, a health insuring corporation organized under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, or any legal entity that is self-insured and provides health care benefits to its employees or members. (2) "Small employer" has the same meaning as in section 3...

...The superintendent of insurance may include coordination of benefits regarding medical savings accounts in the rules on coordination of benefits adopted under section 3902.14 of the Revised Code.

...nce; (6) Benefits for long-term care, home health care, community-based care, or any combination thereof; (7) Disability income insurance; (8) Coverage for on-site medical clinics; (9) Specified disease, hospital confinement indemnity, or limited benefit health insurance if the types of coverage do not provide coordination of benefits and are provided under separate policies or certificates. (G) "Impaired i...

...apter may be cited as the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association act.

... of contractual obligations under life, health, and annuity policies, plans, or contracts specified in division (C) of section 3956.04 of the Revised Code, due to the impairment or insolvency of the member insurer that issued the policies, plans, or contracts. To provide this protection, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, an association of member insurers, is created to pay benefits and to conti...

...provides coverage, by the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, for the policies and contracts specified in division (C) of this section to all of the following persons: (1) Persons, regardless of where they reside, except for nonresident certificate holders or enrollees under group policies or contracts, who are the beneficiaries, assignees, or payees, including health care providers rendering servi...

...This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect its purpose as set forth in section 3956.03 of the Revised Code.

...iation to be known as the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association. All member insurers shall be and remain members of the association as a condition of their license or authority to transact the business of insurance or health insuring corporation business in this state. The association shall perform its functions under the plan of operation established and approved under section 3956.10 of the Revised Co...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, records created, held by, or pertaining to the guaranty association are not public records under section 149.43 of the Revised Code, are confidential, and are not subject to inspection or disclosure. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to the plan of operation required under section 3956.10 of the Revised Code, other information required to be fil...

...board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association shall consist of not less than nine nor more than eleven member insurers serving terms as established in the plan of operation. A majority of the members of the board shall be representatives of member insurers domiciled in this state. Three of the members of the board shall be representatives of the three member insurers that write the lar...

...)(2) of this section, the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association may do either of the following with respect to an impaired member insurer: (a) Guarantee, assume, reissue, or reinsure, or cause to be guaranteed, assumed, reissued, or reinsured, any or all of the policies or contracts of the impaired insurer; (b) Provide the moneys, pledges, notes, guarantees, or other means that are proper to effec...

... powers and duties of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, the board of directors shall assess the member insurers, separately for each subaccount or account, at such time and for such amounts as the board finds necessary. Assessments shall be due not less than thirty days after prior written notice to the member insurers and shall accrue interest at ten per cent per year on and after the due date...

...(A)(1) The Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association shall submit to the superintendent of insurance a plan of operation and any amendments to the plan necessary or suitable to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the association. The plan of operation and any amendments shall become effective upon the written approval of the superintendent, or unless the superintendent has not disap...

...board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association, provide the association with a statement of the premiums in this and any other appropriate states for each member insurer; (2) When an impairment is declared and the amount of the impairment is determined, serve a demand upon the impaired insurer to make good the impairment within a reasonable time. Notice to the impaired insurer shall c...

...board of directors of the Ohio life and health insurance guaranty association when the superintendent has taken any of the actions set forth in division (A)(1) of this section or has received a report from any other insurance commissioner indicating that any such action has been taken in another state. The report to the board of directors shall contain all significant details of the action taken or the report receive...