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Panel OKs streamlined credentialing bill to speed new health providers into practice
Summary
The Labor, Health & Social Services Committee unanimously approved House Bill 82 to create a single, uniform online credentialing application for insurers and require credentialing decisions within 60 days, with interim acknowledgment and timeframes to resolve incomplete applications.
The Labor, Health & Social Services Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 82, a bipartisan measure intended to shorten the time it takes new health-care providers to complete credentialing and begin seeing patients.
Representative Clauston, who led a joint interim task force on the topic, told the committee the bill requires insurers to accept a uniform online credentialing application and establishes time frames for insurers to acknowledge, review and complete credentialing. "Currently, in Wyoming, when you get a new provider, you have to fill out 6 to 15 pages of forms for every single insurance company," Clauston said,…
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