Does the OIC regulate hospitals as well as insurance plans?
It is not OHP’s role to determine regulatory responsibilities. The Legislature assigned responsibility to the Office of the Insurance Commissioner for enforcement and oversight of SSB 5346. OHP’s reporting responsibility is to OIC and the Legislature. The OIC has indicated to us it believes it has the authority to regulate hospital adoption of the provisions of SSB 5346. The Legislature has also made it clear to us that it expects universal adoption either through voluntary adoption or if that fails regulation. Upload/interface with credentialing software vendors: Many members have asked about uploading their existing provider data from their credentialing software programs. We were informed that the “upload” function is not finished. OHP is working with Medversant to publish a process for loading standard files from other systems to save large organizations time in loading data. The standard file format has been available for several months, the process to request access to load data
