Establishes additional health insurance carrier network adequacy standards with respect to certain physician specialists.
This bill requires New Jersey health insurance carriers offering managed care plans to ensure consumers have reasonable and timely access to specific physician specialists at in-network hospitals and facilities. It directly affects insurance companies and their members by mandating new regulations for network adequacy, specifically covering anesthesiologists, radiologists, pathologists, emergency medicine physicians, and their supervisory services. The key mechanism is requiring the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to adopt rules establishing these access standards as part of network adequacy requirements. The policy change focuses on improving access to critical specialty care within existing insurance networks.
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Jan 2025
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Introduced Jan 23, 2025
Last action Jan 23, 2025
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee
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Roy Freiman
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