2010 Tennessee Code
Title 56 - Insurance
Chapter 2 - Insurance Companies
Part 1 - General Requirements for Doing Business
56-2-123 - Confirmation of verbal authorization for medical care.
56-2-123. Confirmation of verbal authorization for medical care.
If verbal authorization is given to a health care provider, insured, or enrollee for medical care under any individual, franchise, blanket or group health insurance policy, medical service plan or contract, hospital service corporation contract, hospital and medical service corporation contract, fraternal benefit society, health maintenance organization, or managed care organization, the verbal authorization shall be confirmed by written authorization, facsimile transmission, or verbally by means of a confirmation number or other confirmation code.
[Acts 1997, ch. 201, § 1.]
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