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Indiana Code Title 27. Insurance § 27-1-37.5-8.1

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 8.1. As used in this chapter, “urgent health care service” means a health care service in which the application of the time period for making a nonexpedited prior authorization, in the opinion of a physician with knowledge of the covered individual's medical condition, could:

(1) seriously jeopardize:

(A) the life or health of the covered individual;  or

(B) the covered individual's ability to regain maximum function;  or

(2) subject the covered individual to severe pain that cannot be adequately managed without the health care service.

The term includes a mental and behavioral health care service.

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