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...ond opinion that may be required (B) A health insuring corporation shall maintain written procedures for determining whether a requested service is a service covered under the terms of an enrollee's policy, contract, or agreement, making utilization review determinations, and notifying enrollees, participating providers, and health care facilities acting on behalf of enrollees, of its determinations. (C) For prospe...

...section 1751.83 of the Revised Code, a health insuring corporation may afford an enrollee an opportunity for an external review under section 3922.08 or 3922.10 of the Revised Code. If an external review is conducted pursuant to this section, the health insuring corporation is not required to afford the enrollee an opportunity for any of the reviews that were disregarded pursuant to this section, including the...

...or a concurrent review determination, a health insuring corporation shall give the provider or health care facility rendering the health care service an opportunity to request in writing on behalf of the enrollee a reconsideration of an adverse determination by the reviewer making the adverse determination. The provider or health care facility may not request a reconsideration without the prior consent of the enrolle...

...A health insuring corporation may present evidence of compliance with the requirements of sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code by submitting evidence to the superintendent of insurance of its accreditation by an independent, private accrediting organization, such as the national committee on quality assurance, the national quality health council, the joint commission on accreditation of health care organiz...

...Each participating provider or health care facility submitting a claim shall cooperate with the utilization review program of a health insuring corporation or utilization review organization and shall provide the health insuring corporation or its designee access to an enrollee's medical records during regular business hours, or copies of those records at a reasonable cost.

...A health insuring corporation shall annually file a certificate with the superintendent of insurance certifying its compliance with sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code.

...Revised Code, each individual and group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement providing basic health care services that is delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state shall provide coverage for the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder. A health insuring corporation shall not terminate an individual's coverage, or refuse to deliver, execute, issue, amend, ad...

...on 3963.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A health insuring corporation shall provide the information required in this division to all enrollees receiving coverage under an individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement for vision care services, vision care materials, or dental care services. The information shall be in a conspicuous format, shall be easily accessible to enrollees, and sha...

...(A) No health insuring corporation shall fail to comply with sections 1751.77 to 1751.82 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is deemed to have engaged in an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance under sections 3901.19 to 3901.26 of the Revised Code.

...tion against an employer that provides health care benefits to employees through a health insuring corporation.

...Sections 1751.77 to 1751.83 of the Revised Code do not apply to either of the following: (A) Coverage provided to beneficiaries enrolled in the medicare+choice program operated under Title XVIII of the "Social Security Act," 49 Stat. 620 (1935), 42 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended; (B) Coverage provided to medicaid recipients; (C) Coverage provided to participants of the children's buy-in program.

...ised Code. (B) No individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement shall deny coverage for the costs of any services provided to an insured through teledentistry if those services would be covered if the services were delivered other than through teledentistry. (C) The coverage that may not be excluded under division (B) of this section is subject to all terms, conditions, restrictio...

...A health insuring corporation may provide payment or reimbursement to a pharmacist for providing a health care service to a patient if both of the following are the case: (A) The pharmacist provided the health care service to the patient in accordance with Chapter 4729. of the Revised Code, including any of the following services: (1) Managing drug therapy under a consult agreement pursuant to section 4729.39 of ...

...Each health insuring corporation shall comply with the requirements of section 3959.20 of the Revised Code as they pertain to health plan issuers. As used in this section, "health plan issuer" has the same meaning as in section 3922.01 of the Revised Code.

...As used in this chapter, "basic health care services," "enrollee," "health care facility," "health care services," "health insuring corporation," "medical record," "person," "primary care provider," "provider," "specialty health care services," "subscriber," and "supplemental health care services" have the same meanings as in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code.

...A health insuring corporation shall notify a provider seeking to enter into a participation contract with the health insuring corporation of the status of the provider's application within one hundred twenty days after the health insuring corporation's receipt of the provider's completed application. That time period may be extended by a health insuring corporation if, due to extenuating circumstances, the health ins...

...section 1751.13 of the Revised Code, a health insuring corporation shall disclose basic information regarding its programs and procedures to the provider. The information shall include all of the following: (a) How a participating provider is reimbursed for the participating provider's services, including the range and structure of any financial risk sharing arrangements, a description of any incentive plans...

...er 1751. of the Revised Code requires a health insuring corporation to employ or contract with, or prohibits a health insuring corporation from employing or contracting with, any category of provider for the provision of basic or supplemental health care services, which health care services are within the recognized scope of practice of that category of provider.

...Every individual or group health insuring corporation policy, contract, or agreement that provides basic health care services but does not allow direct access to obstetricians or gynecologists shall permit a female enrollee to obtain covered obstetric and gynecological services from a participating obstetrician or gynecologist without obtaining a referral from the enrollee's primary care provider. No individual or g...

...(A) A health insuring corporation that does not allow direct access to all specialists shall establish and implement a procedure by which an enrollee may receive a standing referral to a specialist. The procedure shall provide for a standing referral to a specialist if a primary care provider determines in consultation with a specialist that an enrollee needs continuing care from a specialist. The referral shall be m...

...A health insuring corporation or utilization review organization that authorizes a proposed admission, treatment, or health care service by a participating provider based upon the complete and accurate submission of all necessary information relative to an eligible enrollee shall not retroactively deny this authorization if the provider renders the health care service in good faith and pursuant to the authorization a...

...f a policy, contract, or agreement of a health insuring corporation uses a restricted formulary of prescription drugs, the health insuring corporation shall do both of the following: (1) Develop such a formulary in consultation with and with the approval of a pharmacy and therapeutics committee, a majority of the members of which are physicians or advanced practice registered nurses affiliated with the health insur...

... layperson with an average knowledge of health and medicine could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: (a) Placing the health of the individual or, with respect to a pregnant woman, the health of the woman or her unborn child, in serious jeopardy; (b) Serious impairment to bodily functions; (c) Serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part. (2) "Emergen...

...otherwise affect the application to any health care plan of those provisions of Title XVII or XXXIX of the Revised Code that would otherwise apply.

...vel RBC" means the product of 2.0 and a health insuring corporation's authorized control level RBC. (D) "Corrective order" means an order issued by the superintendent of insurance specifying corrective actions that the superintendent determines are required. (E) "Domestic health insuring corporation" means a health insuring corporation domiciled in this state. (F) "Foreign health insuring corporation" means a h...