Provider requirements to protect patients and improve the accuracy of provider directory information

42 U.S. Code § 300gg-139. Provider requirements to protect patients and improve the accuracy of provider directory information

(a) Provider business processesBeginning not later than January 1, 2022, each health care provider and each health care facility shall have in place business processes to ensure the timely provision of provider directory information to a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to support compliance by such plans or issuers with section 300gg–115(a)(1) of this title, section 1185i(a)(1) of title 29, or section 9820(a)(1) of title 26, as applicable. Such providers shall submit provider directory information to a plan or issuers, at a minimum—
(1)
when the provider or facility begins a network agreement with a plan or with an issuer with respect to certain coverage;
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