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INSTRUCTIONS TO EMPLOYER
This document serves as legal notice that the employee identified on this National Medical Support Notice is
obligated by a court or administrative child support order to provide health care coverage for the child(ren) identified
on this Notice. This National Medical Support Notice replaces any Medical Support Notice that the Issuing Agency
has previously served on you with respect to the employee and the children listed on this Notice.
The doc
ument consists of Part A - Notice to Withhold for Health Care Coverage for the employer to withhold any
employee contributions required by the group health plan(s) in which the child(ren) is/are enrolled; and Part B -
Medical Support Notice to the Plan Administrator, which must be forwarded to the Administrator of each group
health plan identified by the employer to enroll the eligible child(ren), or completed by the employer, if the employer
serves as the health Plan Administrator.
An employer receiving this legal Notice is required to complete and return Part A – Employer Response. If group
health coverage is not available to the employee named herein, or the employee was never or is no longer
employed, the employer is required to complete Part A – Employer Response and return it to the Issuing Agency
with the appropriate response checked. If you, the employer, provide the health care benefits to the employee,
forward Part B – Plan Administrator Response to the health Plan Administrator of your organization. If the
employee’s health care benefits are administered through another organization, including a labor union, forward
Part B of the Notice to the labor union or other organization acting as the Plan Administrator for completion. If the
employee has already enrolled the child(ren) in health care coverage, the employer must forward Part B to the Plan
Administrator for completion and submittal to the Issuing Agency.
Keep a copy of Part A as it may be used to notify the Issuing Agency if the employee separates from service for
any reason including retirement or termination.
EMPL
OYER RESPONSIBILITIES
1. If the individual named in this Notice is not your employee, or if the family health care coverage is not
available, please complete item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the Employer Response as appropriate, and return it to
the Issuing Agency. NO OTHER ACTION IS NECESSARY.
2. If family health care coverage is available for which the child(ren) identified above may be eligible, you are
required to:
a. Transfer, not later than 20 business days after the date of this Notice, a copy of Part B - Medical
Support Notice to the Plan Administrator to the Administrator of each appropriate group health
plan for which the child(ren) may be eligible, complete item 7, and
b. Upon notification from the Plan Administrator(s) that the child(ren) is/are enrolled, either
1) withhold from the employee’s income any employee contributions required under each group
health plan, in accordance with the applicable law of the employee’s principal place of employment
and transfer employee contributions to the appropriate plan(s), or
2) complete item 5 of the Employer Response to notify the Issuing Agency that enrollment cannot
be completed because of prioritization or limitations on withholding.
c. If the Plan Administrator notifies you that the employee is subject to a waiting period that expires
more than 90 days from the date of its receipt of Part B of this Notice, or whose duration is
determined by a measure other than the passage of time (for example, the completion of a certain
number of hours worked), complete item 6 of the Employer Response to notify the Issuing Agency
of the enrollment timeframe and notify the Plan Administrator when the employee is eligible to
enroll in the plan and that this Notice requires the enrollment of the child(ren) named in the Notice
in the plan.
3. If the Termination Order/Notice (Optional) checkbox is checked, you are required to terminate the health
care coverage for the child(ren) identified in the order unless the employee has indicated that they want to
continue coverage voluntarily.