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Committee moves to extend insurer decision timelines to physician assistants, advanced-practice nurses
INSURANCE & COMMERCE - SENATE · April 2, 2019
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Summary
The Senate Insurance & Commerce Committee voted to advance language adding physician assistants and advanced-practice nurses to existing insurer decision and approval timelines, aiming to align their timing protections with physicians.
The Senate Insurance & Commerce Committee advanced a bill that adds physician assistants and advanced-practice nurses to the same insurer decision and license-approval timelines now applied to physicians.
Committee members pressed sponsors for detail on whether the change fixes a known bottleneck or chiefly creates…
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