Arkansas

Arkansas Behavioral Health Credentialing And Medicaid Enrollment

If you’re a behavioral health provider getting credentialed in Arkansas, your patients sit in three lanes. Traditional Medicaid is fee-for-service, the highest-need members are in one of four PASSEs that each contract you separately, and expansion adults carry a Marketplace card you reach through a commercial contract. Commercial runs on CAQH, and the 60-day clock with back pay is written for physicians, so a psychiatric nurse practitioner gets 90 days and none of the money. Here’s the order, the lanes, and what only you can sign.

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Arkansas Payers And Timelines

Where The Delays Happen

Getting On A Panel Isn’t The Same As Getting Paid.

In Arkansas the longest pole often isn’t a payer at all. If your site needs DHS behavioral health certification, that has to be in hand before the Medicaid enrollment application goes in, and DHS gives itself up to 90 calendar days on a complete package plus a site survey within 45 days of approval. We answer that question first, because getting it wrong pushes everything behind it back by a quarter.

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Arkansas Medicaid Runs Three Lanes At Once, And One Of Them Is Commercial.

Two Tracks

Which lane your patient sits in decides which application gets you paid. Traditional Medicaid is fee-for-service. Members with the highest behavioral health needs are moved into a PASSE. And the expansion adults carry a private Marketplace card, so you reach them through a commercial contract.

Arkansas Medicaid

One Enrollment, Then A Sorting Problem.

Arkansas doesn’t run one statewide Medicaid HMO. Traditional Medicaid and ARKids First are billed to the state through the Gainwell-operated MMIS. Members with intensive behavioral health or intellectual and developmental disability needs are assigned to a PASSE. Adults in the expansion group are enrolled by the state into a private qualified health plan under ARHOME.

How you enrollThrough the Arkansas Medicaid Healthcare Provider Portal. You start the application online, pick your provider type and specialty, upload documents, pay the federal application fee through the state’s AccessGov page where it applies, and track it by tracking number. There’s still a printable packet for provider types that submit on paper, which uses the Practitioner Identification Form for individual practitioners.

The gate that sits in front of enrollmentDHS certification through the Division of Provider Services and Quality Assurance. Both DHS manuals say current certification is a condition of Medicaid provider enrollment and that it has to be obtained for each site before the enrollment application goes in. The agency track uses Form 100, Form 200 and Form 210 for a new agency, Form 250 for a new site and Form 220 for a move. The lighter practitioner track uses DMS-633. The Independently Licensed Practitioner definition names LCSW, LMFT, Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Psychological Examiner Independent and LPC. Prescribers aren’t on that list, so a psychiatric APRN normally enrolls as a nurse practitioner provider type instead.

PASSE is its own contract, four times overFour PASSEs operate statewide: Arkansas Total Care, CareSource PASSE, Empower Healthcare Solutions and Summit Community Care. A Medicaid ID does not get you PASSE payment. Enrollment first, then a separate credentialing and contracting application with each PASSE whose members you see. If anyone tells you the Medicaid ID covers it, they’re wrong.

Prescribers get caught hereArkansas Medicaid uses the ordering, rendering and prescribing framework in its own enrollment materials, and says a provider intending to use their own NPI as an ORP provider for pharmacy and medical claim billing has to enroll. The federal rule at 42 CFR 455.410(b) sits behind it. We enroll you even when billing Medicaid isn’t part of the business plan, so your prescriptions land.

Revalidation just got easier to trackSince May 26, 2026 you can look up your own revalidation date inside the Healthcare Provider Portal. DHS also warns that CMS keeps shifting enrollment requirements by provider type, so the letters and portal notices are worth reading. A missed revalidation closes the file and stops payment, and reopening is slower than renewing.

Commercial

Two Families Own The Market, And One Of Them Is Your Medicaid Route.

USAble Mutual (Arkansas Blue Cross), HMO Partners (Health Advantage) and USAble HMO (Octave) are one family. Celtic (Ambetter), QCA Health Plan and QualChoice Life and Health are Centene. Six carriers sell individual Marketplace plans in Arkansas for 2026, and those names cover all of them.

The commercial applications are how you reach expansion adultsARHOME puts Medicaid expansion adults on private Marketplace coverage with the state paying the premium and cost sharing. The three ARHOME carriers are Arkansas Blue Cross, Ambetter from Arkansas Health and Wellness and QualChoice. Skip those and a whole population is out of reach no matter how clean your Medicaid file is.

The behavioral health door, and an honest gapArkansas Blue Cross names Lucet, formerly New Directions, as its behavioral health partner for eligibility, authorizations and case management. What we couldn’t confirm from Arkansas Blue Cross’s own pages is whether the credentialing decision is delegated to Lucet or held by Provider Network Operations in-house. The participation pages route credentialing questions to a regional network development representative, which reads like in-house. We ask both at application rather than guessing, because the wrong door costs weeks.

Your CAQH/DataSpring stays yoursYou complete and attest your own profile. We’re added as an authorized practice manager, so we keep the practice data current during your project and get each carrier authorized. After that, Credentialing Maintenance keeps it current. If you want us to maintain your profile, you share access securely and change the password when we’re done. Arkansas also runs a state credentials verification service through the Medical Board, but its statute lives in the physicians and surgeons chapter and we could not confirm it accepts advanced practice nurse files. CAQH is the workhorse here either way.

Any willing provider is a real leverArkansas prohibits an insurer from shutting out a qualified provider who is willing to accept the plan’s terms. It doesn’t force a carrier to take you. It does mean a closed-panel answer isn’t the end of the conversation, and we push on it in writing as a matter of course here.

Seeing patients in other statesOne Arkansas Blue Cross contract reaches Blue members from other states through BlueCard, and Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare are national on one contract. The gate is a license where the patient is sitting, not another contract. Joining a different state’s network is a separate question and the answer varies by state. Medicaid is the genuine per-state exception, and it doesn’t travel.

Who You’ll Apply To, And How Long It Usually Takes.

Arkansas Commercial Payers

These are typical ranges from a complete application. Arkansas has a statutory backstop behind them, and for a non-physician it’s 90 days since Act 571 of 2025, so a slow carrier can run into it. We track and push rather than promise.

Arkansas Blue Cross And Blue Shield

USAble Mutual. The largest single block of ARHOME members.

Usually: about 60 to 120 days from a complete application, with the 90-day statutory backstop for a non-physician behind it and a written incomplete notice due within 15 calendar days
What it reaches: commercial group on the Preferred Payment Plan network, individual and Marketplace sold as Arkansas Blue Cross and as Octave, the ARHOME qualified health plan, and self-funded employer groups administered by BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas
Behavioral health: Lucet is the named partner for eligibility, authorizations and case management. Whether it also holds the network decision isn’t published, so we ask Lucet and Provider Network Operations both
Watch: a self-funded group inside that book can rent a different network, so we confirm per group rather than assuming the Arkansas Blue Cross contract covers it

Health Advantage (HMO Partners)

Administers ARBenefits for state and public school employees

Usually: about 60 to 120 days from a complete application, same statutory backstop
Why it gets its own line: ARBenefits is one of the biggest member blocks in Arkansas and it doesn’t look like a carrier from the outside. Benefits and rates are set by the Arkansas State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board, and Health Advantage administers the Premium, Classic and Basic plans for 2026
Useful if the answer comes back closed: Arkansas’s any willing provider enforcement subchapter says specifically that it applies to the health benefit plan the state provides to state employees and public school personnel
Confirm first: whether your Arkansas Blue Cross agreement already picks up Health Advantage products or whether it’s a separate network selection

QualChoice

QCA Health Plan and QualChoice Life and Health. Centene since 2019.

Usually: about 60 to 120 days. Centene runs contracting first and credentialing after in Arkansas, so ask for both dates rather than one
The brand-versus-network problem: QualChoice kept its name and its own provider relations staff, but the underlying commercial network moved to Centene’s Arkansas network, marketed as NovaSys. You can be joining one network while talking to people who answer the phone as another
Products: commercial group, self-funded groups, individual and Marketplace, and the ARHOME qualified health plan
Confirm which network your agreement loads into. QualChoice, Ambetter and Arkansas Total Care are all Centene and none of them is automatically the others

Ambetter From Arkansas Health And Wellness

Celtic Insurance Company. An ARHOME carrier.

Usually: about 60 to 120 days, and remember contracting comes before credentialing at Centene, so a quoted clock is often only the second half
Why it matters more than its Marketplace size: it’s one of the three ARHOME carriers, so covering it reaches expansion adults the state assigned to it
A real shortcut Centene publishes: if you already participate with Ambetter from Arkansas Health and Wellness on the Medicaid or Medicare product, you aren’t separately credentialed for the Ambetter product

Optum Behavioral Health (UnitedHealthcare)

Separate from core UnitedHealthcare medical

Usually: about 60 to 120 days from a complete application
The expensive local mistake: applying through the UnitedHealthcare medical door. For a behavioral health prescriber the door is Optum
Reach: one national contract covers every state you’re licensed in, so this is reach rather than a per-state chore

Separate door: Optum Behavioral Health

Aetna

One request form for medical and behavioral health

Usually: about 60 to 120 days from a complete application
Watch: behavioral health professionals use the same request for participation form as medical, so there’s no separate behavioral door to find. Aetna checks network need in your area before credentialing starts
Reach: one national Aetna contract covers every state you’re licensed in

Same form: medical and behavioral health

Cigna Healthcare

Behavioral health goes through Evernorth

Current application route: Evernorth directs individual providers to its provider portal and publishes separate applications for clinics and facilities. We confirm the right provider category and network requirements before we submit.
CAQH: Evernorth asks for your CAQH ID and expects re-attestation every 120 days
Published application timing: Evernorth says joining its network can take up to 90 calendar days, or as otherwise required by law
Our read: Evernorth is taking individual applications through its portal, so Cigna goes on the Arkansas list with the others. Settle the provider category first, because clinics and facilities file different forms

Separate door: Evernorth Behavioral Health

What Arkansas Law Does And Doesn’t Give You

The headline number is real. Read who it covers.

The clock, in steps. Ark. Code Ann. section 23-99-411 requires a written incomplete notice within 15 calendar days. Then a physician licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act gets a decision within 60 calendar days of a completed application. Any other provider gets 90. Act 571 of 2025 cut that from 180, so for an advanced practice nurse it’s now a deadline a slow carrier can miss
The back-payment sentence is written for physicians. Since Act 423 of 2025, the insurer shall treat an applicant physician as a participating physician from the date of submission of a substantially completed application, once approved, and that date is when the insurer receives the physician’s file from the Medical Board’s Centralized Credentials Verification Service. It doesn’t apply to Arkansas Medicaid. That’s real retroactive effect and it’s unusual. But the rest of the section says provider when it means provider, so the narrower word looks deliberate. A psychiatric APRN shouldn’t plan cash flow around it
The physician clock has a pause button. When credentials are verified through the Arkansas State Medical Board’s Centralized Credentials Verification Service under section 17-95-107, the 60 days stops while the file is out. So a physician’s real timeline can exceed 60 days without anyone breaking the law
Any willing provider is the useful part. Section 23-99-201 and following, plus the enforcement subchapter at 23-99-801 through 23-99-804, which reaches insurers whether they’re writing coverage or administering and contracting for provider networks, and expressly covers the state employee and public school plan. It won’t make a carrier accept you. It does remove the easy no
What none of it does. No statute requires a carrier to accept you or sets a rate, and every clock starts from a completed application, which is the thing the carrier gets to define. That’s why the completeness of the first submission matters more than any follow-up call. We date-stamp the submission and calendar the 15-day notice

Medicare, Arkansas Medicaid fee-for-service and the PASSEs are government enrollment, which is $450 per provider for each Medicare, Medicaid or Medicaid plan enrollment and can be bought on its own or with a package. Humana belongs in that bucket too. After its 2023 announcement and the phase-out that followed, treat Humana in Arkansas as Medicare Advantage rather than commercial group. Self-funded ERISA plans generally sit outside state insurance law regardless of what an Arkansas statute says, so we confirm how any single product is treated at submission.

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ARBenefits, self-funded employer groups through BlueAdvantage Administrators of Arkansas, union and Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, the four PASSE networks. You name the plan, we find the real route. Several of these aren’t a separate application at all: ARBenefits members are reached through the Health Advantage and Arkansas Blue Cross network rather than by applying to the state, and most BlueAdvantage-administered groups come with Arkansas Blue Cross participation, though a self-funded plan can rent a different network so we check per group. Union funds usually run through a rented commercial network, and we work out which one pays the claim. We confirm which network and application your practice needs.

Send These Once And We Can Start.

What We Need From You

Your individual NPIPlus a Type 2 if you bill under a group or business. Arkansas DHS ties behavioral health certification to each site, so we need every service location tied to the right identifier.
Active Arkansas license and DEAFor your provider type. Arkansas certification and Medicaid enrollment both key off a license in good standing.
CAQH attested and each carrier authorizedYou attest it, we keep it current during your project. CAQH is the workhorse for every Arkansas commercial application.
Delegated portal accessIn the Arkansas Medicaid Healthcare Provider Portal, so we can build and track the enrollment application and pull the tracking number. No password sharing.
Malpractice certificateCurrent, naming you, or a carrier-produced roster face sheet.
Legal business name, EIN, and W-9The name exactly as registered with the Arkansas Secretary of State. DHS requires a certification application in the name used to identify the business to the Secretary of State and for tax purposes, and a mismatch here stalls things.
Every Arkansas service addressDHS certifies by site, and all certified sites have to be located in Arkansas.
Your service mix and who delivers itIncluding whether anyone on the team isn’t independently licensed. This is what decides whether a DHS certification track applies, and it’s the question that surprises people latest.
A rough sense of your patient mixSpecifically whether you expect PASSE-assigned members and ARHOME expansion adults. In Arkansas that answer changes the application list more than anything else you tell us.
Accreditation statusWhether you hold or are pursuing CARF, Joint Commission or COA accreditation. It only matters for the DHS agency track, but when it matters it’s a long lead item.
Five years of work historyMonth and year, with any gap over six months explained. This is the single most common reason a clean-looking credentialing file gets returned.

One live item to watch, and it’s the one that could change the whole Arkansas plan: the current ARHOME Section 1115 demonstration runs through December 31, 2026. Arkansas filed a renewal in December 2025 that includes community engagement requirements of roughly 80 hours a month starting January 1, 2027 or earlier with federal approval, and CMS separately approved an ARHOME amendment covering housing and nutrition support services. In August 2026 DHS said CMS had found the renewal wouldn’t meet new federal budget neutrality rules, and the state asked for a temporary two-year extension of ARHOME while it develops a new delivery system. As of our October 1, 2026 check we found no published federal decision on that extension. If the structure changes, the commercial route to expansion adults changes with it.

Arkansas also certifies behavioral health providers through DHS, separate from your own license, and it ties that certification directly to Medicaid rather than leaving it as a side question. A solo prescriber doing outpatient medication management often lands outside the agency track, but that depends on your business, your sites and your service mix. We ask about all three during onboarding and flag it early if a certification track looks like it could be in play, then point you to the Division of Provider Services and Quality Assurance. We don’t tell you whether you need one, we don’t publish the requirements as if they were advice, and we don’t file it for you.

Physicians and outpatient medical groups, psychiatrists included, have their own physician credentialing page. For everyone else, our credentialing and payer enrollment page covers how we work in Arkansas and the other 49.

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Arkansas Credentialing Questions

Questions We Get

Does Arkansas’s 60-Day Credentialing Law Apply To A Nurse Practitioner?

No. Ark. Code Ann. section 23-99-411 gives 60 calendar days to a physician licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act and 90 calendar days to any other provider, cut from 180 by Act 571 of 2025. A psychiatric nurse practitioner is on the 90-day clock. That’s longer than the physician deadline, but it’s now short enough that a slow carrier can miss it. The retroactive payment sentence is narrower still: it says the insurer shall treat an applicant physician as a participating physician from the date of submission of a substantially completed application, which Act 423 of 2025 defines as the day the insurer receives the physician’s file from the Arkansas State Medical Board’s Centralized Credentials Verification Service. The rest of the section says provider when it means provider, so the word physician there looks deliberate rather than sloppy. Plan as if the wait is unpaid and treat any back-dating as a win.

What Is A PASSE, And Do I Have To Contract With One?

A PASSE is a Provider-led Arkansas Shared Savings Entity, and it’s full-risk Medicaid managed care for the members with the highest behavioral health or intellectual and developmental disability needs. Four operate statewide: Arkansas Total Care, CareSource PASSE, Empower Healthcare Solutions and Summit Community Care. If your panel includes PASSE-assigned members, being enrolled with Arkansas Medicaid does not reach them. Each PASSE is its own credentialing and contracting application, and Medicaid enrollment is a precondition rather than a substitute. Empower Healthcare Solutions states the order plainly on its own provider page: you have to be enrolled in the Arkansas Medicaid Program before it can pay you.

How Do I Get Paid For Medicaid Expansion Patients In Arkansas?

With a commercial contract, which is the part that surprises people. Under ARHOME, Arkansas covers its Medicaid expansion adults by buying them private Marketplace coverage rather than putting them in a Medicaid managed care plan, and the state pays the premium and cost sharing. Those members carry an Arkansas Blue Cross, Ambetter or QualChoice card. So a provider who credentials only with Arkansas Medicaid and the PASSEs has no route to a large share of the low-income adult population. Members who don’t pick a plan are auto-assigned after 42 days, and roughly 80 percent of enrollees arrive that way.

Do I Need DHS Certification Before I Enroll With Arkansas Medicaid?

Possibly, and in Arkansas the question sits in front of enrollment rather than beside it. Both DHS certification manuals say current certification is a condition of Medicaid provider enrollment and that it has to be obtained for each site before the enrollment application goes in. There are two tracks: a heavier agency track that expects national accreditation from CARF, the Joint Commission or COA along with a medical director, a compliance officer and a site survey, and a lighter track for certain independently licensed clinicians that runs on form DMS-633. DHS gives itself up to 90 calendar days on a complete package, plus a site survey within 45 days of approval. Which track applies depends on your business, your sites and your service mix. We ask during onboarding and flag it early. We don’t tell you whether you need one and we don’t file it for you.

Does Arkansas’s Any Willing Provider Law Mean A Payer Has To Accept Me?

No, and anyone telling you otherwise is overselling it. Ark. Code Ann. section 23-99-201 and following, the Patient Protection Act of 1995, prohibits an insurer from shutting out a qualified provider who’s willing to accept the plan’s terms and conditions, and it blocks a plan from building in a monetary advantage or penalty that steers a patient away from the provider they chose. The enforcement subchapter at 23-99-801 through 23-99-804 reaches insurers whether they’re writing coverage or administering and contracting for provider networks, and it says specifically that it applies to the plan the state provides to state employees and public school personnel. What it really does is take away the easy answer. In most states a closed-panel reply ends the conversation. In Arkansas you have something to point at, calmly and in writing, and carriers know it.

Do I Have To Enroll With Arkansas Medicaid If I Only See Commercial Patients?

If you prescribe for anyone on Arkansas Medicaid, assume yes. Arkansas Medicaid uses the ordering, rendering and prescribing framework in its own enrollment materials and says anyone intending to use their own NPI as an ORP provider for pharmacy and medical claim billing has to enroll, with the federal rule at 42 CFR 455.410(b) behind it. One honest limit, because we’d rather you hear it from us: we didn’t find an Arkansas DHS page stating in plain language that a pharmacy claim denies over the prescriber’s enrollment status, the way some states publish it. We treat the practical effect as very likely and confirm the exact path and provider type with Arkansas Medicaid Provider Enrollment during onboarding. The person who finds out otherwise is your patient, at the counter.

Is QualChoice The Same Network As Ambetter In Arkansas?

Same parent, different networks. Centene bought QCA Health Plan and QualChoice in 2019 and owns Ambetter from Arkansas Health and Wellness and Arkansas Total Care as well, but none of them is automatically the others. QualChoice kept its brand and its own provider relations staff while the underlying commercial network moved to Centene’s Arkansas network, marketed as NovaSys, so you can be joining one network while talking to people who answer the phone as another. Centene does publish one real shortcut: if you already participate with Ambetter from Arkansas Health and Wellness on the Medicaid or Medicare product, you’re not separately credentialed for the Ambetter product. Confirm which network your agreement loads into before you sign it.

Keep Reading

Arkansas PMHNP scope of practiceWhat Arkansas allows you to do, separate from who pays you.
Missouri credentialing and payer enrollmentA 60-day clock that does reach you, plus a carrier status portal Arkansas doesn’t require.
Oklahoma credentialing and payer enrollmentPays 90 percent of the fee schedule while you wait, and kills applications on a 10-day letter.
Mississippi credentialing and payer enrollmentWill credential you temporarily in five business days if you ask in writing.
Tennessee credentialing and payer enrollmentBack pay during the credentialing gap, but only if you’re joining a contracted group.
Packages and pricingPublished scope and price for every credentialing package we sell.
Opening your own practiceBusiness setup, identifiers, payers, EHR, and billing setup.
Adding a provider to your clinicFirst-time credentialing into contracts you already hold.
Changing your business or tax IDMoving panels without breaking the money.

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Official Pages For Arkansas

Arkansas Medicaid Provider Enrollment PortalEnroll or revalidate as a Medicaid provider.Arkansas DHS Medicaid Provider EnrollmentEnroll or revalidate as a Medicaid provider.Arkansas Act 423 of 2025 Credentialing Retroactive PaymentThe state's credentialing rules for health insurers.Arkansas State Board of NursingNurse practitioner (APRN) licensing.Arkansas Board of Examiners in CounselingLicensing for therapists and counselors.

Where This Comes From

Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Services, provider enrollment overview and contacts verified July 26, 2026
Arkansas Medicaid Healthcare Provider Portal (Gainwell Technologies), enrollment mechanics, printable packet, AccessGov fee payment and the May 26, 2026 revalidation lookup verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Arkansas DHS, Provider Services and Quality Assurance, Behavioral Health Agency Certification Manual and the Independently Licensed Practitioner track verified July 26, 2026
Arkansas Code of 1987, Ark. Code Ann. section 23-99-411, the 15-day incomplete notice and the 60-day physician clock verified July 26, 2026
Arkansas General Assembly, Act 571 of 2025 (90 days for any other provider, down from 180) and Act 423 of 2025 (the physician back-payment start date and the Medicaid exclusion), both amending section 23-99-411 verified October 1, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Arkansas State Medical Board, Centralized Credentials Verification Service, created by Act 1066 of 1995 verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Arkansas Insurance Department Rule 86, provider listing under the any willing provider laws verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, network participation and credentialing standards, and Lucet’s Arkansas plan page verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Health Advantage, the 2026 ARBenefits Premium, Classic and Basic plans for state and public school employees verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
QualChoice Health Insurance and Ambetter from Arkansas Health and Wellness, Centene Arkansas contracting and credentialing routes verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
CareSource, Empower Healthcare Solutions and Summit Community Care Arkansas PASSE provider materials, plus CMS approval of the ARHOME housing and nutrition amendment verified July 26, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026
Arkansas Department of Human Services, the August 2026 request for a temporary ARHOME waiver extension, and Medicaid.gov’s ARHOME page showing the December 31, 2026 expiration verified October 1, 2026
Optum and Aetna network entry points verified October 1, 2026
Evernorth Behavioral Health application instructions: individual providers, clinics, facilities, and regional application routes verified October 1, 2026 link checked automatically October 14, 2026

Links checked automatically on October 14, 2026. A source carries that stamp only when its page loaded and had not changed since the date we verified it.

We last reviewed this page on October 1, 2026. Each source listed shows the date we last verified it, and we will review the whole page again by January 11, 2027.

Payer programs, plans and timelines change. Everything here carries a verification date and gets re-checked on a review cycle. We will check these facts again by January 11, 2027. Approval and effective dates are controlled by each payer and by the state. This page covers payer operations. It isn’t legal, tax or scope of practice advice.

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