Choice of Health Care Professional Sample Clauses

Choice of Health Care Professional. The MCO must allow an Enrollee to choose his or her Health Care Professional to the extent possible and appropriate. “To the extent possible and appropriate” includes limiting the selection of a Primary Care Provider to participants in the MCO’s network, unless the Primary Care Provider was already at capacity, and other instances discussed in the “Provisions of the Proposed Rule and Analysis of and Response to Public Comments” to 42 CFR § 438.6(m), Volume 67, Number 115, column 3 of page 41,006 and column 1 of page 41,007 of the Federal Register, June 14, 2002.
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Choice of Health Care Professional. The HMO must offer each enrollee covered under this Contract the opportunity to choose a primary health care professional affiliated with the HMO, to the extent possible and appropriate. If the HMO assigns recipients to primary care providers, then the HMO must notify recipients of the assignment. HMOs must permit Medicaid and BadgerCare enrollees to change primary providers at least twice in any calendar year, and to change primary providers more often than that for just cause, just cause being defined as lack of access to quality, culturally appropriate, health care. Such just cause will be handled as a formal grievance. If the HMO has reason to lock in an enrollee to one primary provider and/or pharmacy in cases of difficult case management, the HMO must submit a written request in advance of such lock-in to the Department’s Contract Specialist. Culturally appropriate care in this section means care by a provider who can relate to the enrollee and who can provide care with sensitivity, understanding, and respect for the enrollee’s culture.
Choice of Health Care Professional. The HMO must offer each member covered under this Contract the opportunity to choose a primary health care professional affiliated with the HMO, to the extent possible and appropriate. If the HMO assigns members to primary care providers, then the HMO must notify members of the assignment. The HMO must permit members to change primary providers at least twice in any year, and to change primary providers more often than that for just cause, just cause being defined as lack of access to quality, culturally appropriate, health care. Such just cause will be handled as a formal grievance. If the HMO has reason to lock in a member to one primary provider in cases of difficult case management, the HMO must submit a written request in advance of such lock-in to the Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Management. Culturally appropriate care in this section means care by a provider who can relate to the member and who can provide care with sensitivity, understanding, and respect for the member’s culture.
Choice of Health Care Professional. The HMO must offer each enrollee covered under this Contract the opportunity to choose a primary health care professional affiliated with the HMO, to the extent possible and appropriate. If the HMO assigns members to primary care providers, then the HMO must notify members of the assignment. The HMO must permit enrollees to change primary providers at least twice in any year, and to change primary providers more often than that for just cause, just cause being defined as lack of access to quality, culturally appropriate, health care. Such just cause will be handled as a formal grievance. If the HMO has reason to lock in an enrollee to one primary provider in cases of difficult case management, the HMO must submit a written request in advance of such lock-in to the Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Management. Culturally appropriate care in this section means care by a provider who can relate to the enrollee and who can provide care with sensitivity, understanding, and respect for the enrollee’s culture.
Choice of Health Care Professional. The PIHP must offer each member covered under this Contract the opportunity to choose a primary health care professional affiliated with the PIHP, to the extent possible and appropriate. If the PIHP assigns members to primary care providers, then the PIHP must notify enrollees of the assignment. The PIHP must permit FCMH members to change primary providers at least twice in any year, and to change primary providers more often than that for just cause, just cause being defined as lack of access to quality, culturally appropriate, health care. Such just cause will be handled as a formal grievance. If the PIHP has reason to lock in an enrollee to one primary provider in cases of difficultcare coordination, the PIHP must submit a written request in advance of such lock-in to the Bureau of Benefits Management Culturally appropriate care in this section means care by a provider who can relate to the member and who can provide care with sensitivity, understanding, and respect for the member’s culture.

Related to Choice of Health Care Professional

  • Health Care The Company will reimburse the Executive for the cost of maintaining continuing health coverage under COBRA for a period of no more than 12 months following the date of termination, less the amount the Executive is expected to pay as a regular employee premium for such coverage. Such reimbursements will cease if the Executive becomes eligible for similar coverage under another benefit plan.

  • Compliance with Health Care Laws Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is, and at all times has been, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws, and has not engaged in activities which are, as applicable, cause for false claims liability, civil penalties, or mandatory or permissive exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid, or any other state or federal health care program. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health Care Laws” means: (i) the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et seq.), the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq.), and the regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) all applicable federal, state, local and all applicable foreign health care related fraud and abuse laws, including, without limitation, the U.S. Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the U.S. Physician Payment Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h), the U.S. Civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the criminal False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)), all criminal laws relating to health care fraud and abuse, including but not limited to 18 U.S.C. Sections 286 and 287, and the health care fraud criminal provisions under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.), the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), the civil monetary penalties law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a), HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.), and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes; (iii) Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act); (iv) Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act); (v) the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq.) and the regulations promulgated thereunder; and (vi) any and all other applicable health care laws and regulations. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any subsidiary has received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that any product operation or activity is in material violation of any Health Care Laws, and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action is threatened. Neither the Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any subsidiary is a party to or has any ongoing reporting obligations pursuant to any corporate integrity agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, plans of correction or similar agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory authority. Additionally, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any of its respective employees, officers or directors has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S. federal health care program or human clinical research or, to the knowledge of the Company, is subject to a governmental inquiry, investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that could reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension, or exclusion.

  • Health Care Benefits (a) Each regular full-time employee may elect coverage for himself and his eligible dependents* under one of the following health insurance plans:

  • Health and Safety 16.01 The Employer, Union and the employees shall comply with the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act where and when applicable. The Employer shall provide working conditions at all times which are not prejudicial to the health or efficiency of the workers. Employees are required to report to their Employer any unsafe work conditions, or violation of any safe work policies or procedures established by the Employer, or any violation of relevant safe work legislation.

  • Whistleblower Protection Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted so as to impede the Employee (or any other individual) from reporting possible violations of federal law or regulation to any governmental agency or entity, including but not limited to the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Congress, and any agency Inspector General, or making other disclosures under the whistleblower provisions of federal law or regulation. The Employee does not need the prior authorization of the Company to make any such reports or disclosures and the Employee shall not be not required to notify the Company that such reports or disclosures have been made.

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