Health Care Coverage.

Part of a series of fact sheets that discuss how and why the child support program provides innovative services to families across six interrelated areas to assure that parents have the tools and resources they need to support their children and be positively involved in raising them, this fact sheet discusses how the child support program promotes children's health. By establishing and enforcing medical support orders, the program can meet its responsibility to secure health care coverage for the children in its caseload by collaborating with private insurers, employers, Medicaid, CHIP, and, soon, new state health insurance Exchanges. The child support program can also help parents be consistent providers for their children by connecting them to health care coverage and services. (Author abstract modified)