If verbal authorization is given to a health care provider, insured, or enrollee for medical care under any individual, franchise, blanket or group health insurance policy, medical service plan or contract, hospital service corporation contract, hospital and medical service corporation contract, fraternal benefit society, health maintenance organization, or managed care organization, the verbal authorization shall be confirmed by written authorization, facsimile transmission, or verbally by means of a confirmation number or other confirmation code.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Chapter 2 - Insurance Companies
Part 1 - General Requirements for Doing Business
§ 56-2-101. Applicability to Foreign and Domestic Companies
§ 56-2-105. Certificate of Authority Required — Exceptions
§ 56-2-107. Acts of Unauthorized Insurers Constituting Doing Business in State
§ 56-2-109. No Action to Be Maintained Without Certificate of Authority
§ 56-2-111. Liability for Tax on Gross Premium
§ 56-2-115. Additional Surplus Requirement
§ 56-2-122. Nonprofit Health Maintenance Organization as Subsidiary of Certain Hospital Corporations
§ 56-2-123. Confirmation of Verbal Authorization for Medical Care