(A) The medicaid director may submit a waiver request to the United States secretary of health and human services to provide health assistance to any individual who meets all of the following requirements:

Terms Used In Ohio Code 5161.35

  • Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • federal poverty line: means the official poverty line defined by the United States office of management and budget based on the most recent data available from the United States bureau of the census and revised by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981" section 673(2), 42 U. See Ohio Code 5161.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59

(1) Is the parent of a child who is under nineteen years of age, resides with the parent, and is enrolled in the children’s health insurance program part I or II or the medicaid program;

(2) Is uninsured;

(3) Has a family income that does not exceed one hundred per cent of the federal poverty line.

(B) A waiver request the director submits under division (A) of this section may seek federal funds allotted to the state under the “Social Security Act,” section 2104, 42 U.S.C. § 1397dd, that are not otherwise used to fund the children’s health insurance program parts I and II.

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