Health Care Reform Update: Major provisions into effect this week
Expanding Enrollee's choice of health care professionals: Health insurance plans
must allow enrollees to select any participating primary care provider available, including a pediatrician for children, and to cover emergency services provided at a hospital emergency department regardless of the hospital's participation in the plan preferred provider network and without prior authorization requirements. Plans must allow females to access Ob/Gyns without a referral or preauthorization from another health care provider or pediatricians to be named as a child's primary care provider.
Health Care Reform Update: Major provisions into effect this week