Unverified entries must be flagged and departed providers removed in five days
What the document says“remove a provider from such directory within 5 business days if the organization determines that the provider is no longer a provider participating in the network of such plan.”
The new paragraph also requires the organization, where it cannot verify a provider's information, to mark the entry as possibly out of date, and to remove a provider within five business days of determining that the provider is no longer in the plan's network.
What the document actually says“remove a provider from such directory within 5 business days if the organization determines that the provider is no longer a provider participating in the network of such plan.”
If a doctor leaves the plan's group, the plan must take that doctor off the list. It has five work days to do it.
A plan that cannot reach a doctor must say so on the list. That warns the patient. A doctor who has left must come off.
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