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...s for one or more small employer health care alliances in accordance with section 1731.09 of the Revised Code, this section shall apply in accordance with section 1731.09 of the Revised Code.

...s for one or more small employer health care alliances in accordance with section 1731.09 of the Revised Code, this section shall apply in accordance with section 1731.09 of the Revised Code. (C) Carriers offering health benefit plans to small employers shall file premium rates with the superintendent in accordance with section 3923.02 of the Revised Code with respect to the carrier's sickness and accident insuranc...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Beneficiary," "hospital," and "third-party payer" have the same meanings as in section 3901.38 of the Revised Code. (2) "Overcharged" means charged more than the usual and customary charge, rate, or fee that is charged by the provider or hospital for a particular item or service. (3) "Provider" has the same meaning as in section 3902.11 of the Revised Code. (B) If a beneficiary ...

...(A) As used in this section, "employer" means any person who employs an 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 eligi...

...aims experience; (d) Receipt of health care; (e) Medical history; (f) Genetic information; (g) Evidence of insurability, including conditions arising out of acts of domestic violence; (h) Disability. (B) No group health benefit plan, or 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 und...

...(A) As used in sections 3924.41 and 3924.42 of the Revised Code, "health insurer" means any sickness and accident insurer or health insuring corporation. "Health insurer" also includes any group health plan as defined in section 607 of the federal "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 832, 29 U.S.C.A. 1167. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, no health insurer sh...

...caid and who is covered under a health care policy, contract, or plan issued by the health insurer, that are different 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 ...

... administrative 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 u...

...oyee's share of premiums for the health care coverage, if any, and pay that amount to the health insurer providing the coverage; (4) Comply with the requirements of sections 3119.36 to 3119.364 and 3119.42 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted by the department of job and family services under section 3119.51 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer shall not terminate the child's coverage unless the employer has ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Child" means, in connection with any adoption or placement for adoption of the child, 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 tota...

...r 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 beneficiary if the injury or sickness for which the services were rendered resulted from an action or omission for which the governmental entity operating the correctional facility, or the governmental entity with which the law enforcement office...

...a service rendered by a licensed health care provider or a Christian Science practitioner, or for an article, device, or drug prescribed by a licensed health care provider or provided by a Christian Science practitioner, when intended for use in the mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease; any amount paid for transportation to the location at which such a service is rendered; any amount paid for lodging neces...

...(A) A medical savings account may be opened by or on behalf of any natural person, to pay the person's eligible medical expenses and the eligible medical expenses of that person's spouse or dependent. A medical savings account may be opened by or on behalf of a person only if that person participates in a sickness or accident insurance plan, a plan offered by a health insuring corporation organized under Chapter 1751...

...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.

...(A) At the time a medical savings account is opened, an administrator for the account shall be designated. If an employer opens an account for an employee, the employer may designate the administrator. If an account is opened by any person other than an employer, or if an employer chooses not to designate an administrator for an account opened for an employee, the account holder shall designate the administrator. The...

...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.

...(A) In determining Ohio adjusted gross income under Chapter 5747. of the Revised Code, an account holder may deduct an amount equaling the total of the deposits that the account holder, the account holder's spouse, or the account holder's employer made to the account during the taxable year, to the extent that the funds for the deposits have not otherwise been deducted or excluded in determining the account holder's ...

...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.

...The superintendent of insurance shall prepare and periodically revise a brochure that clearly and concisely explains the operation of medical savings accounts authorized under sections 3924.61 to 3924.74 of the Revised Code, and that describes how an employer's or individual's use of a medical savings account may affect the employer's or individual's purchase of policies, plans, and contracts of health coverage. The ...