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Insurance officials update committee on UnitedHealthcare–NEA Baptist negotiations; DHS files psychiatric collaborative care report
Summary
Insurance Commissioner Jimmy Harris, Arkansas Insurance Department General Counsel Sara Farris and Melissa Rust of the University of Arkansas System updated the joint Insurance and Commerce committees on negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital and the Arkansas Department of Human Services submitted a quarterly report on a Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model under Act 615 of 2023.
Jimmy Harris, Insurance Commissioner, Sara Farris, General Counsel for the Arkansas Insurance Department, and Melissa Rust, Vice President for the Office of University Relations at the University of Arkansas System, briefed the joint Senate and House Committees on Insurance and Commerce on the status of negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital.
Representative John Maddox recognized a quarterly report from the Arkansas Department of Human Services on the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model, submitted pursuant to A.C.A. § 23-99422(f)(1)-(f)(2) (Act 615 of 2023). The transcript records that the DHS report was filed and that the insurance officials provided an update on the UnitedHealthcare–NEA Baptist discussions; the record in this transcript does not include negotiation terms, timelines, or a recorded motion related to the hospital negotiations.
The committee did not take a recorded vote or direct action on the negotiations or on the DHS report in the minutes excerpt provided. Committee members proceeded to other business and adjourned at 12:05 p.m.
