Child support enforcement program; medical support enforcement--Office of Child Support Enforcement. Notice of Proposed rulemaking.
OCSE is proposing to amend the Child Support Enforcement program regulations governing medical support enforcement activities. Currently these activities are pursued through optional cooperative agreements between the State IV-D agency and the State Medicaid agency. This proposal would require all State IV-D agencies, as part of the IV-D State plan, to perform certain limited medical support activities. First, the IV-D agency would be required to attempt to obtain basic medical support information during the normal processing of child support cases and provide this information to the State Medicaid agency. Second, the IV-D agency would be required to petition to include medical support in new or modified support orders in situations in which coverage is available to the absent parent at reasonable cost and to inform the State Medicaid agency of any new or modified support orders which include a medical support obligation. These activities would result in increased use of available third party resources in the form of private medical insurance and in medical cost savings to State and Federal governments. Federal funding would be available to IV-D agencies for these required medical support activities.
D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services