(A) The Ohio health reinsurance program shall not provide reinsurance for any individual reinsured under the program until five thousand dollars in benefit payments have been made by a member of the program for services provided to that individual during a calendar year, which payments would have been reimbursed through the program but for the five-thousand-dollar deductible. The member shall retain ten per cent of the next fifty thousand dollars of benefit payments made during that calendar year, and the program shall reinsure the remainder. However, a member's maximum liability under this section with respect to any one individual reinsured under the program shall not exceed ten thousand dollars in any one calendar year.

(B) The board of directors of the Ohio health reinsurance program shall periodically review the deductible amount and the maximum liability amount set forth in division (A) of this section and, considering the rate of inflation, adjust each amount as the board considers necessary.

Amended by 132nd General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 49, §610.53, eff. 9/29/2017.

Suspended by 130th General Assembly File No. 15, SB 9, §3, which provides that during the period beginning on January 1, 2014, and expiring January 1, 2022, the operation of this section is suspended. If the amendments made by 42 U.S.C. 300gg-1 and 300gg-6, regarding the requirements related to health insurance coverage become ineffective prior to the expiration of the suspension on January 1, 2022, then this section, in either its present form or as later amended, again becomes operational..

Effective Date: 06-30-1997 .

Related Legislative Provision: See 130th General Assembly File No. 15, SB 9, §3.