Struggling to get appointments with your health care provider? Even with state and federal laws requiring that health plans offer accurate lists of participating doctors and facilities, this problem is still widespread.
California law and the federal No Surprises Act stipulate that patients who rely on information in their provider directories and end up unwittingly seeing doctors outside their networks cannot be required to pay more than they would have paid for an in-network provider.study published in June
Few people know this better than Dan O’Neill. The San Francisco health care executive called local primary care doctors listed in the directory of his health plan, through a major national carrier, and could not get an appointment. Nobody he talked to could tell him whether UCSF Health, one of the city’s premier health systems, was in his network.
The law gives insurers some leverage to induce providers to respond, and a whole industry has sprung up around collecting provider updates through a centralized portal and selling the information to health plans. The inaccuracy problem remains, however. Health plans and providers often have outdated data systems that don’t communicate with each other.
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