Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0894

Authorizing health care providers to designate credentials verification entities
to collect, verify, maintain, store and provide core credentials data to health
care entities, health related licensing boards or the commissioner of health for
practice privileges or participating provider status application purposes;
corrections, updates or modifications to be the responsibility of the health
care provider, requirements; requiring health care entities employing,
contracting with or allowing health care providers to treat patients to use the
designated credentials verification entity to obtain core credentials data on
the providers; providing for access to the national practitioner data bank by
the commissioner, health related licensing boards or health care or credentials
verification entities; prohibiting the collection of duplicate data and
providing for the availability of data collected, authorizing a fee; specifying
certain standards requirements of credentials verification entities; restricting
health care entity recredentialing requirements, prohibiting reimbursement
denial during recredentialing; granting health care entities immunity from
liability for the use of credentials verification entities (mk)