§33-15B-1 Legislative findings; purpose.
§33-15B-1. Legislative findings; purpose.
The Legislature hereby finds that there is a need to provide guidelines regarding uniform health care administration in order to best serve consumers, health care providers and insurers and to organize and streamline the claims process. The purpose of this article is to require the transfer of the authority of the insurance commissioner to develop standard forms and procedures regarding health care claims and to require that all insurers, third party providers, and health care providers implement and use such standards in a uniform manner to the West Virginia health care authority. The West Virginia health care authority is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the health data collection in West Virginia and coordinating database development, analysis and reporting to facilitate cost management, utilization review, and quality assurance efforts by state payors and regulatory agencies, insurers, consumers, providers, and other interested parties. The Legislature finds that the West Virginia health care authority is the appropriate agency to oversee the development of standard forms and procedures regarding health care claims. Thus, the Legislature hereby transfers the responsibilities to develop standard forms and procedures regarding health care claims and all other requirements and procedures under this article to the West Virginia health care authority.