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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Subtitle 17A. Health Benefit Plans
304.17A.550 Out-of-network benefits.
Download pdfshall allow a covered person to receive covered services from out-of-network health
care providers without having to obtain a referral. The plan with out-of-network
benefits may require that an enrollee pre-certify selected services and pay a higher
deductible, copayment, coinsurance, excess charges and higher premium for the
out-of-network benefit plan pursuant to limits established by administrative
regulations promulgated by the department. (2) If the contract holder elects the out-of-network offering required under subsection (1) of this section, the insurer shall provide each enrollee with the opportunity at the
time of enrollment and during the annual open enrollment period, to enroll in the
out-of-network option. If the contract holder elects the out-of-network offering
required under subsection (1) of this section, the insurer and the contract holder
shall provide written notice of the benefit plan with out-of-network benefits to each
enrollee in a plan and shall include in that notice a detailed explanation of the
financial costs to be incurred by an enrollee who selects the plan. (3) The requirement of this section shall not apply to an insurer contract which offers a managed care plan that provides health care services solely to Medicaid or Medicare
recipients. (4) Managed care plans currently licensed and doing business in Kentucky that do not yet offer benefit plans with out-of-network benefits must develop and offer those
plans within three hundred sixty-five (365) days of April 10, 1998. Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1232, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 59, sec. 10, effective July 13, 2004. -- Created 1998 Ky.
Acts ch. 496, sec. 35, effective April 10, 1998.
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