The referral registry was designed to increase consumer/employer choice while providing assistance in finding individual providers and prospective individual providers. In addition, the referral registry:

(1) Takes into account the consumer/employer needs and preferences when identifying potential individual providers;

(2) Provides for reasonable standards of accountability for individual providers and prospective individual providers listed through the registry;

(3) Is voluntary for individual providers and prospective individual providers and consumers/employers;

(4) Promotes job opportunities for individual providers and prospective individual providers;

(5) Provides access to the database for consumer/employers who want to query a referral independently; and

(6) Increases a consumer/employer's choice of individual providers and prospective individual providers via an established pool of available individual providers and prospective individual providers on the registry.