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Plans need to be prepared to act quickly on, among other things, updating notices and administrative procedures, amending existing claims procedures, adopting new external review procedures, selecting 3 independent review organizations (IROs) to perform external reviews, and preparing service agreements to govern the plan / IRO relationship. Along with the Technical Release, the DOL issued 3 Model Notices for use with the external review procedures: (1) a model notice of adverse benefit determination, (2) a model notice of final internal adverse benefit determination, and (3) a model notice of final external review decision.
Please see Littler's ASAP, New Health Care Claims and Appeal Rules Will Include a Tax Bite, for more detailed information.
Russell Chapman authored this entry.