HB177 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ben Robbins Representative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Medicaid; Requiring Employer-provided insurance as primary payor of eligible child's health care

Description

Under existing law, when a child who is approved for Medicaid is also covered by a parent's private health insurance, the private health insurance must pay before Medicaid will pay.

This bill would require a custodial parent of a child covered by Medicaid to put the child on the health care insurance offered by an employer when coverage for the child is also available. If a noncustodial parent is under an order to pay child support, the court may also order that the child be included on the parent's employer-provided health care insurance or order the parent to purchase coverage for the child.

If a parent fails to include a child approved for Medicaid on available health care coverage provided by an employer or as otherwise ordered by a court, this bill would authorize the Medicaid agency to recover any health care payments made for the child by a civil suit against the parent.

This bill would further provide that a parent automatically authorizes any employer to release information to the Medicaid agency when a parent's child is approved by either program for coverage.

HB177 INTRODUCED.

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Subjects

Insurance