The purpose of this chapter is to provide uniform standards for the establishment and maintenance of external review procedures to assure that covered persons have the opportunity for an independent review of an adverse determination or final adverse determination made by a health carrier as required by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, as amended by the federal Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152, which amends the Public Health Service Act and adopts, in part, 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-19, and to address issues which are unique to the external review process in this state.
Iowa Code § 514J.101
2011 Acts, ch 101, § 1; 2022 Acts, ch 1032, § 87