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...n individual. (B) No employer shall engage in any act or practice that, due solely to the actual or expected health condition of one or more individuals, excludes or causes the exclusion of any individual from coverage under an existing employer-provided policy, contract, or plan of health benefits for which the individual would otherwise be eligible. (C) If an employer violates division (B) of this section, the pr...

... carrier offering health insurance coverage in connection with a group health benefit plan, shall require any individual, as a condition of enrollment or continued enrollment under the plan, to pay a premium or contribution that is greater than the premium or contribution for a similarly situated individual enrolled in the plan on the basis of any health status-related factor in relation to the individual or to an in...

...g an individual's eligibility for coverage or when making payments to or on behalf of an enrollee, subscriber, policyholder, or certificate holder.

...from the requirements applicable to an agent or assignee of any other individual so covered.

...(A) As used in sections 3924.46 to 3924.49 of the Revised Code, "health insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3924.41 of the Revised Code. (B) No health insurer shall deny enrollment of a child under the health plan of the child's parent on the basis that any of the following applies: (1) The child was born out of wedlock. (2) The child is not claimed as a dependent on the federal tax return of the parent. ...

...If a child has health care coverage through a health insurer of a noncustodial parent, the health insurer shall do all of the following: (A) Provide such information to the custodial parent of the child as may be necessary for the child to obtain benefits through the coverage; (B) Permit the custodial parent, or a provider with the approval of the custodial parent, to submit claims for covered services without the ...

...ative order to provide health care coverage for the child, and if the parent is eligible for family health care coverage provided by a health insurer, the health insurer shall do both of the following: (1) If the child is otherwise eligible for the coverage, permit the parent to enroll the child under the family coverage without regard to any enrollment period restrictions; (2) If the parent is enrolled under the c...

...order to provide health insurance coverage for the child, which coverage is available through an employer doing business in this state, the employer shall do all of the following: (1) If the child is otherwise eligible for the family coverage, permit the parent to enroll the child under the coverage without regard to any enrollment period restrictions; (2) If the parent is enrolled under the coverage but fails to ...

...ild, an individual who has not attained age eighteen as of the date of the adoption or placement for adoption. (2) "Health insurer" has the same meaning as in section 3924.41 of the Revised Code. (3) "Placement for adoption" means the assumption and retention by a person of a legal obligation for total or partial support of a child in anticipation of the adoption of the child. The child's placement with a person te...

...ts contract shall limit or exclude coverage for the reason that the beneficiary is under confinement or is otherwise under the custody of a law enforcement officer, and a governmental entity is wholly or primarily responsible for rendering or arranging for the rendering of health care services for the beneficiary. (C) A benefits contract may limit or exclude coverage for health care services rendered to such a benef...

...e sickness and accident insurance, coverage under a health care plan of a health insuring corporation organized under Chapter 1751. of the Revised Code, long-term care insurance as defined in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code, medicare supplemental coverage as defined in section 3923.33 of the Revised Code, or payments made pursuant to cost sharing agreements under comprehensive sickness and accident plans. An "eli...

...olicy, plan, or contract of health coverage that is funded by the person's employer, and who receives additional monetary compensation by virtue of refusing that coverage, may not open a medical savings account unless the medical savings account also is sponsored by the person's employer.

...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.

...ministrator. The administrator shall manage the account in a fiduciary capacity for the benefit of the account holder. (B) Medical savings accounts shall be administered by one of the following: (1) A federally or state-chartered bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union; (2) A trust company authorized to act as a fiduciary; (3) An insurer authorized under Title XXXIX of the Revised Code t...

...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.

...olicy, 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's Ohio adju...

...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.

...es, 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.

...re 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 3924.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Subject ...

...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.

...oration, association, or partnership engaged in this state in the guaranty, bonding, surety, or insurance business, other than life insurance, nor any officer, agent, solicitor, employee, or representative thereof, shall pay, allow, or give, or offer to pay, allow, or give, directly or indirectly, as inducements to insurance, and no person shall knowingly receive as an inducement to insurance, any rebate or premium p...