my ex cancelled my health insurance
Location: Michigan
as the title says, my ex wrote a letter asking to cancel “all” my policies. i think he forgot i have 5 children. the ex in question wrote to cancel all my policies but he is the father to only 3 of my children. i received a letter in the mail stating “as per your written request, we have cancelled the policies for the following” and proceeded to name all of my children. i never wrote a letter asking for this since i am on limited income. what are the laws against this? can i use this in custody court against him? would this be considered fraud since he/his wife forged my signature on my case? the only way to access my case is through my social security number so i have no clue how he even had access to this (he doesn’t know his kids shoe sizes or birthdays).
besides the fact that he is in contempt of court since it is stated that our children will remain under my policy, what else can i do? my other children need their medications and he has completely thrown a wrench into my life because of this. i called my caseworker today and i was able to reinstate my children’s insurance but there has to be some rule he’s breaking just by forging my signature on something so important. does this violate HIPPA or something?
any advice would be greatly appreciated
EDIT: to address any confusion, 3 out of 5 children are his. he is unemployed. he fraudulently cancelled my policy (medicaid) and put our children under his new wife’s policy. the court custody order states that our children will remain on medicaid. there was a “letter” submitted, requesting a cancellation, from my name and signature. I DID NOT write a letter OR request a cancellation on any policies. when he requested that all my policies be canceled, they shut off ALL of my children’s medicaid, not just the 3 children we share.
EDIT 2: my ex remarried and she put our children on her employer insurance (not medicaid). my ex has denied all health issues with our children (adhd, anxiety, GI issues, gynecologist appt for our daughter) and has also verbally harassed their primary physician. he has denied healthcare for our children and has purposefully withheld their medications they are supposed to take everyday. the reason this insurance stuff is happening now is because he does not want to get in trouble for the problems he has caused for our children’s healthcare but the providers won’t give him new prescriptions. he specifically denies medications when i try to hand them to him and now he is arguing i “won’t hand them over” when we do drop offs. he has a history of abuse and is intentionally taking them off my medicaid so he can claim the title of “responsible parent”.