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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Subtitle 17A. Health Benefit Plans
304.17A.641 Treatment of a stabilized covered person with an emergency medical condition in a nonparticipating hospital's emergency room.
Download pdf(COBRA), 42 U.S.C. sec. 300bb, in the emergency department of a nonparticipating
hospital, and an insurer under its health benefit plan requires prior authorization for
poststabilization treatment, approval or denial under the preauthorization
requirement shall be provided in a timely manner appropriate to conditions of the
patient and delivery of the services, but in no case to exceed two (2) hours from the
time the request is made and all relevant information is provided. The insurer's
failure to make a determination within the two (2) hour time frame, shall constitute
an authorization for the hospital to provide the medical service for which prior
authorization was sought. (2) The nonparticipating hospital providing emergency room services, poststabilization treatment, or both, shall be paid at a rate negotiated between the nonparticipating
hospital and the insurer. Nothing in this section is to be construed as requiring the
payment of one hundred percent (100%) of the billed charges. Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 262, sec. 20, effective July 14, 2000.
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