South Dakota Codified Laws 58-17I-12. Expedited review for adverse determinations involving urgent care requests–Appointment of peers for review
Each health carrier shall establish written procedures for the expedited review of urgent care requests of grievances involving an adverse determination. In addition, a health carrier shall provide expedited review of a grievance involving an adverse determination with respect to concurrent review urgent care requests involving an admission, availability of care, continued stay, or health care service for a covered person who has received emergency services, but has not been discharged from a facility. The procedures shall allow a covered person or the covered person’s authorized representative to request an expedited review under this section orally or in writing.
Each health carrier shall appoint at least one appropriate clinical peer in the same or similar specialty as would typically manage the case being reviewed to review the adverse determination. The clinical peer may not have been involved in making the initial adverse determination.
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 58-17I-12
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
- written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
Source: SL 2011, ch 219, § 84.
Commission Note: SL 2012, ch 239, § 1 provides: “The provisions of chapter 219 of the 2011 Session Laws shall be deemed repealed if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152, 124 Stat. 1029 (2010) is found to be unconstitutional in its entirety by a final decision of a federal court of competent jurisdiction and all appeals exhausted or time for appeals elapsed.”