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Subcommittee moves to shorten credentialing window for mental-health providers; discusses retroactive billing language
Summary
Lawmakers supported changing statute so health carriers credential mental-health providers within 30 days (matching primary care rules) and directed further work on retroactive-payment language that would allow providers to bill after credentialing.
The Commerce and Consumer Affairs subcommittee considered House Bill 507, which would require health carriers to credential mental-health providers within 30 days of a clean and complete application, matching an existing standard for primary care physicians.
DJ Betancourt, representing the Insurance Department, told the committee the department supports the core of section 1 of the bill that would shorten the credentialing timeframe from 45 to 30 days for mental-health clinicians. "Anything that we can do to ease the pipeline of…
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