SB 330 Summary

• Establishes minimum enrollment requirements of 300 employees or self-employed individuals for multiple employer welfare arrangements operating group self-insurance programs.

• Requires health insuring corporations, sickness and accident insurers, and public employee benefit plans with prior authorization requirements to use a standardized form adopted by the superintendent of insurance.

• Mandates that insurers and health plans respond to, deny, or authorize prior authorization requests within 48 hours of receiving the completed form.

• Requires the Department of Medicaid to establish a standardized form for medical assistance recipients to request prior authorization for covered services, modeled on the insurance superintendent's standardized form.

• Establishes a 48-hour response deadline for the Department of Medicaid or its designee to approve or deny prior authorization requests submitted on the standardized form.