Section 33: Refining Methods of Establishing Selective and Tiered Networks
Expands Section 32 to include methods that a health plan may use to achieve cost savings within the selective or tiered plan available to the individual and small business market, such as excluding from a tiered or selective network those providers with similar or lower quality based on the standard quality measure set and higher health status adjusted total medical expense or relative price, or by increasing member cost sharing for non-emergency services rendered by those providers.
The Division of Insurance must establish regulations requiring uniform reporting of tiering information, including a detailed description of the methodology used to determine how providers were tiered, at least 90 days before any tiered network becomes effective.