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...No health insurer shall impose requirements on the department of medicaid, when it has been assigned the rights of an individual who is eligible for medicaid 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 ...

...(A) If a parent of a child is required by a court or 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 p...

...(A) If a parent of a child is required by a court or administrative 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 restricti...

...(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...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Beneficiary" and "benefits contract" have the same meanings as in section 3901.38 of the Revised Code. (2) "Confinement" means any period of time during which a person is in the custody or under the supervision of the department of rehabilitation and correction or is confined in a local jail, workhouse, or other correctional facility of the type described in section 307.93, 341.14,...

...As used in sections 3924.61 to 3924.74 of the Revised Code: (A) "Account holder" means the natural person who opens a medical savings account or on whose behalf a medical savings account is opened. (B) "Eligible medical expense" means any expense for 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 prov...

...(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 ...

... (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 ...

...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.

...The articles of incorporation of a company formed for the purpose of insurance, other than life insurance, must be forwarded to the secretary of state, who shall submit them to the attorney general for examination. If such articles are found by him to be in accordance with the constitution and laws of this state and of the United States, he shall certify and deliver them back to the secretary of state. He may reject ...

...The persons named in the articles of incorporation of a company formed for the purpose of insurance other than life, or a majority of such persons, shall be commissioners to open books for the subscription of stock in the company, at such times and places as they deem proper, and shall keep the books open until the full amount specified in the articles is subscribed.

...Within one month after the subscription books of a stock insurance company are filled, as provided in section 3925.02 of the Revised Code, and after the articles of incorporation of a stock insurance company are filed with the secretary of state, a majority of subscribers to the voting stock shall hold a meeting for the election of not less than five nor more than twenty-one directors. The number of directors may b...

...When convened at the office of the company, the board of directors elected or appointed as provided in section 3925.03 or 3941.05 of the Revised Code, or a majority of the board, may appoint a secretary and other officers or agents necessary for transacting its business, and may pay such salaries and take such securities as the board considers reasonable. The board may ordain and establish bylaws and a code of regula...