10 Things You Need to Know About Cash Medical Support Orders and Changes to Ohio Child Support Law

1. Medical Support is becoming part of child support in Ohio.
2. The custodial parent will not have to pay medical support orders in Ohio.
3. Ohio Obligors (usually dads) who have private health insurance available to them at a reasonable cost will be  required to enroll their child in health insurance.
4. In Ohio a “reasonable cost” for health insurance means that the cost of health insurance does not exceed 5%  of the obligor’s income.
5. If health insurance is available at a reasonable cost and is discontinued, child support will go up to include the additional medical support amount WITHOUT notice or opportunity for hearing to the obligor.
6. Obligors will still have to opportunity to request a mistake of fact hearing, but the scope of those hearings is very limited.
7. The additional medical support component to Ohio child support is called a “cash medical support order”.
8. If a child is on Medicaid (including Molina, Care Source, etc.), the cost of the Medicaid will be off set by the medical support amount collected (meaning the government will have first “dibs” on the medical support).
9. If you think the new Ohio cash medical support orders are designed to reimburse the government for the cost of medicaid, you are right.
10. Obligors whose income is below the national poverty level for that fiscal year will not have to pay cash medical support.

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