17. A payer shall make statistics available regarding prior authorization approvals and denials on its Internet website in a readily accessible format, as determined by the commissioner. Payers shall include categories for:
 
   a.   health care provider specialty;
 
   b.   medication or diagnostic tests and procedures;
 
   c.   indication offered;
 
   d.   reason for denial;
 
   e.   whether prior authorization determinations were:
 
   (1)   appealed; or
 
   (2)   approved or denied on appeal;
 
   f.   the time between submission of prior authorization requests and the determination;
 
   g.   the average median time elapsed between a request for clinical records from the requesting health care provider and receipt of adequate clinical records to complete the prior authorization; and
 
   h.   the number of appeals generated for cases denied in which there was inadequate or no prior clinical information.
 
L.2023, c.296, s.17.