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Definitions

Health Care Coverage

Health care coverage includes medical, dental, and other health care benefits that are provided by one or more health plans. Health care coverage does not include any form of public coverage.

Health Plan

A health plan is a plan, other than any form of public coverage, that provides medical, dental, or other health care benefits and is one of the following:

provided on an individual or group basis;
provided by an employer or union;
purchased in the private market;
available to a person eligible to carry insurance for the joint child.

Medical Support

Medical support is providing health care coverage for a joint child by carrying health care coverage for the joint child or by contributing to the cost of health care coverage, public coverage, unreimbursed medical expenses, and uninsured medical expenses of the joint child.

National Medical Support Notice

A national medical support notice is an administrative notice issued by the public authority to enforce health insurance provisions of a support order in accordance with Code of Federal Regulations in cases where the public authority provides support enforcement services.

Public Coverage

Public coverage is health care benefits provided by any form of medical assistance or MinnesotaCare.

Uninsured Medical Expenses

Uninsured medical expenses are a joint child's reasonable and necessary health-related expenses if the joint child is not covered by a health plan or public coverage when the expenses are incurred.

Unreimbursed Medical Expenses

Unreimbursed medical expenses are a joint child's reasonable and necessary health-related expenses if a joint child is covered by a health plan or public coverage and the plan or coverage does not pay for the total cost of the expenses when the expenses are incurred. Unreimbursed medical expenses do not include the cost of premiums. Unreimbursed medical expenses include deductibles, co-payments, and expenses for orthodontia (braces), and prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses, but not over-the-counter medications if coverage is under a health plan.