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An IRO is an independent organization of medical reviewers who are certified by the State of Washington Department of Health to review medical and other relevant information. There is no cost to you for an external review. We will send you an External Review Request form, notifying you of your rights to an external review, within 3 business days of the end of the Level II appeal process. We must receive your written request for an external review within 180 days of the date of our final internal adverse benefit determination. Your request must include a signed waiver granting the IRO access to medical records and other materials that are relevant to your request. We will notify the IRO of your request for an external review. We will provide you with the name and contact information of the IRO within 1 day of giving the IRO notice of your request for review. The IRO will accept additional information in writing from you for up to 5 business days from the date we notify them of your request for external review. The IRO is required to consider any information you provide within this period when it conducts its review. The IRO will let you, your authorized representative, if any, or your attending physician know where to submit any additional information and when the information must be provided. We will forward your medical records and other relevant materials for your external review directly to the IRO. We will also provide the IRO with any additional information they request that is reasonably available to us. Once the external review is completed, the IRO will notify you and us in writing of their decision. If you have requested an expedited external review, the IRO will notify you and us of their decision immediately by phone, e-mail or fax after they make their decision, and will follow up with a written decision by mail. 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The cost and expense of the arbitration shall be paid by HPN. The decision of the arbiter shall be binding upon the Member and HPN. HPN offers to the Member or the Member\u2019s Authorized Representative the right to an External Review of an adverse determination. For the purposes of this section, a Member\u2019s Authorized Representative is a person to whom a Member has given express written consent to represent the Member in an External Review of an adverse determination; or a person authorized by law to provide substituted consent for a Member; or a family member of a Member or the Member\u2019s treating provider only when the Member is unable to provide consent. Adverse determinations eligible for External Review set forth in this section are only those relating to Medical Necessity, appropriateness of service, healthcare service, healthcare setting, or level of care or effectiveness of a healthcare service. HPN will provide the Member notice of such an adverse determination which will include the following statement: HPN has denied your request for the provision or payment of a requested healthcare service or course of treatment. You may have the right to have our decision reviewed by health care professionals who have no association with us if our decision involved making a judgment as to the Medical Necessity, appropriateness, health care setting, level of care or effectiveness of the health care service or treatment you requested by submitting a request for External Review to the Office for Consumer Health Assistance. Additionally, as per applicable law and regulations, the notice will provide the Member the information outlined in Section 10.2 as well as the following: \u2022 The telephone number for the Office for Consumer Health Assistance for the state of jurisdiction of the health carrier and the state in which the Member resides. \u2022 The right to receive correspondence in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. The notice to the Member or the Member\u2019s Authorized Representative will also include a HIPAA compliant authorization form by which the Member or the Member\u2019s Authorized Representative can authorize HPN and the Member\u2019s Physician to disclose protected health information (\u201cPHI\u201d), including medical records, that are pertinent to the External Review, and any other forms as required by Nevada law or regulation. The Member or the Member\u2019s Authorized Representative may submit a request directly to OCHA for an External Review of an adverse determination by an Independent Review Organization (\u201cIRO\u201d) within four (4) months of the Member or the Member\u2019s Authorized Representative receiving notice of such determination. The IRO must be certified by the Nevada Division of Insurance. Requests for an External Review must be made in writing and submitted to OCHA at the address below and should include the signed HIPAA authorization form, authorizing the release of your medical records. The entire External Review process and any associated medical records are confidential. 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