40-5-810. Authorization to enroll and participate in health benefit plan. (1) A plan administrator shall enroll a child when given a medical support order even if the obligated parent fails to execute documents required by the plan. The parents, the department, and a third-party custodian may release to a plan provider, employer, union, or other group any information necessary to obtain or enforce medical support or to facilitate the preparation, submission, processing, verification, or payment of claims.
     (2) The signature of either parent, of an authorized representative of the department, or of a third-party custodian authorizes the plan to receive and process claims and exercise any available options for the continuation or extension.

     History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 504, L. 1995.