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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Subtitle 17A. Health Benefit Plans
304.17A.525 Standards for provider participation -- Mechanisms for consideration of provider applications -- Policy for removal or withdrawal.
Download pdfStandards shall be reasonably related to services provided. Selection or participation
standards based on the economics or capacity of a provider's practice shall be
adjusted to account for case mix, severity of illness, patient age and other features
that may account for higher-than- or lower-than-expected costs. All data profiling or
other data analysis pertaining to participating providers shall be done in a manner
which is valid and reasonable. Plans shall not use criteria that would allow an
insurer to avoid high-risk populations by excluding providers because they are
located in geographic areas that contain populations or providers presenting a risk
of higher-than-average claims, losses, or health services utilization or that would
exclude providers because they treat or specialize in treating populations presenting
a risk of higher-than-average claims, losses, or health services utilization. (2) Each insurer shall establish mechanisms for soliciting and acting upon applications for provider participation in the plan in a fair and systematic manner. These
mechanisms shall, at a minimum, include:
(a) Allowing all providers who desire to apply for participation in the plan an opportunity to apply at any time during the year or, where an insurer does not
conduct open continuous provider enrollment, conducting a provider
enrollment period at least annually with the date publicized to providers
located in the geographic service area of the plan at least thirty (30) days in
advance of the enrollment periods; and (b) Making criteria for provider participation in the plan available to all applicants. (3) If a managed care plan terminates the participation of an enrollee's primary care provider, the plan shall provide notice to the enrollee and arrange for the enrollee's
continuity of care with an approved primary care provider. (4) An insurer that offers a managed care plan shall establish a policy governing the removal of and withdrawal by health care providers from the provider network that
includes the following:
(a) The insurer shall inform a participating health care provider of the insurer's removal and withdrawal policy at the time the insurer contracts with the health
care provider to participate in the provider network, and when changed
thereafter; (b) If a participating health care provider's participation will be terminated or withdrawn prior to the date of the termination of the contract as a result of a
professional review action, the insurer and participating health care provider
shall comply with the standards in 42 U.S.C. sec. 11112; and (c) If the insurer finds that a health care provider represents an imminent danger to an individual patient or to the public health, safety, or welfare, the medical Page 2 of 2 director shall promptly notify the appropriate professional state licensing
board. Effective: April 10, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 496, sec. 30, effective April 10, 1998.
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