title: Doctors' complaints help forge insurance regulation. Payment due.
abstract: Arkansas doctors are banning to help draft a regulation that would require health maintenance organizations and insurance carriers to process health care claims within 45 calendar days after receipt of a claim. The proposed regulation would be administered by the Arkansas Department of Insurance. If additional information from a claimant is needed to process a claim, a carrier must notify a provider within 10 days of receipt of the claim. Once that information is received by the carrier, it has an additional 45 days to pay.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gardner
mesh_terms: D001131:Arkansas; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007351:Insurance, Liability; D013997:Time Factors