Digest: Expands network rules for some health benefit plans. Makes DCBS adopt certain rules. Allows some health and dental plans to use remote providers to meet network rules. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Expands network adequacy requirements to health benefit plans offered to large employers and modifies requirements. Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt specified standards for network adequacy.
Permits a health benefit plan and a dental-only plan to use telemedicine health care providers to meet network adequacy standards only as permitted by rule adopted by the department.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 743B.505, 743A.058