New Arkansas Law Aims to Ensure Insurance Plans Cover Crisis Services

A new Arkansas law now prohibits prior authorizations for health care services provided for treatment of a mental health crisis, reports ACHI. Act 626 by Rep. Jeremy Wooldridge adds crisis stabilization units to the definition of “health care provider” under Arkansas’s “any willing provider law,” which prohibits insurers from excluding from their networks any health care providers willing to abide by their terms.