Section 23-99-210 - Healthcare provider - Adverse professional review action

A healthcare insurer shall not exclude a physician as a participating healthcare provider in a health benefit plan based solely on an adverse professional review action, including those described in the Arkansas Peer Review Fairness Act, § 20-9-1301 et seq., unless a hospital's physician peer review committee concludes that the conduct of the physician adversely affected or could have adversely affected a patient by violating the standard of care or posing a risk to the health or welfare of a patient.Added by Act 2019, No. 996,§ 1, eff. 4/15/2019.