KRS 304.17A-520: Enrollee choice of primary care providers.

(1) An enrollee shall have adequate choice among participating primary care providers

in a managed care plan who are accessible and qualified.

(2) A managed care plan shall permit enrollees to choose their own primary care

provider from a list of health care p roviders within the plan. This list shall be

updated as health care providers are added or removed and shall include a sufficient

number of primary care providers who are accepting new enrollees.

(3) Women shall be able to choose a qualified health care provider offered by a plan for

the provision of covered care necessary to provide routine and preventive women's

health care services.

(4) An insurer shall provide a covered person with access to a consultation with a

participating health care provider for a second opinion. Obtaining the second

opinion shall not cost a covered person more than the covered person's normal

copay or coinsurance amounts.