Insurance

Medical Insurance & Cash Medical Orders

The Child Support Enforcement Agency is required by federal law to ensure that medical insurance coverage is provided for the child(ren) of the support order. The establishment of medical coverage is to be ordered and enforced.

Private health insurance is “reasonable” if the annual cost (family coverage minus self-only insurance) does not exceed five percent of the parent’s annual gross income.

Cash medical support may be assigned and paid to the State of Ohio if the child is receiving medical benefits through Medicaid or Healthy Start.

Important Things to Know...

• If private insurance is NOT available to either parent when the support order is established (or modified), both parents will be required to notify the CSEA when private health insurance becomes available
• If private health insurance stops (unemployed) the non-residential parent must pay cash medical until the private health insurance becomes available again (support orders with effective dates prior to 3/27/2019)
• Changes to a cash medical order can only be made through the court order