Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXIV. Business and Financial Institutions § 376.1575. Definitions

(1)“Completed application”, a practitioner's application to a health carrier that seeks the health carrier's authorization for the practitioner to provide patient care services as a member of the health carrier's network and does not omit any information which is clearly required by the application form and the accompanying instructions;

(2)“Credentialing”, a health carrier's process of assessing and validating the qualifications of a practitioner to provide patient care services and act as a member of the health carrier's provider network;

(3)“Health carrier”, the same meaning as such term is defined in section 376.1350. The term health carrier shall also include any entity described in subdivision (4) of section 354.700;

(4)“Practitioner”: