Provides comprehensive protections for physicians from health insurer retaliation for both physician communications with patients and communications with regulators/legislators.

A red-lined version of the NAIC’s model bill to assist medical societies in states where the NAIC model has been introduced or where the medical society would like to propose network adequacy legislation.

Patient and health care provider protection

Prohibited practices

Prohibition; definitions

“Gag clause” prohibition

Protections for physician advocacy 

Protecting physician-patient communications