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Revised Code of Washington
Title 48
Chapter 48.44
Wash. Rev. Code ch. 48.44
Health care services.
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48.44.010
Definitions.
48.44.011
Insurance producer—Definition—License required—Application, issuance, renewal, fees—Penalties involving license.
48.44.013
Filings with secretary of state—Copy for commissioner.
48.44.015
Registration by health care service contractors required—Penalty.
48.44.016
Unregistered activities—Acts committed in this state—Sanctions.
48.44.017
Schedule of rates for individual contracts—Loss ratio—Definitions.
48.44.020
Contracts for services—Examination of contract forms by commissioner—Grounds for disapproval—Liability of participant.
48.44.021
Calculation of premiums—Members of a purchasing pool—Adjusted community rating method—Definitions.
48.44.022
Calculation of premiums—Adjusted community rate—Definitions.
48.44.023
Health plan benefits for small employers—Coverage—Exemption from statutory requirements—Premium rates—Requirements for providing coverage for small employers.
48.44.024
Requirements for plans offered to small employers—Definitions.
48.44.026
Payment for certain health care services.
48.44.030
Underwriting of indemnity by insurance policy, bond, securities, or cash deposit.
48.44.033
Financial failure—Supervision of commissioner—Priority of distribution of assets.
48.44.035
Limited health care service—Uncovered expenditures—Minimum net worth requirements.
48.44.037
Minimum net worth—Requirement to maintain—Determination of amount.
48.44.039
Minimum net worth—Domestic or foreign health care service contractor.
48.44.040
Registration with commissioner—Fee.
48.44.050
Rules and regulations.
48.44.055
Plan for handling insolvency—Commissioner's review.
48.44.057
Insolvency—Commissioner's duties—Participants' options—Allocation of coverage.
48.44.060
Penalty.
48.44.080
Master lists of contractor's participating providers—Filing with commissioner—Notice of termination or participation.
48.44.090
Refusal to register corporate, etc., contractor if name confusing with existing contractor or insurance company.
48.44.095
Annual financial statement—Filings—Contents—Fee—Penalty for failure to file.
48.44.100
Filing inaccurate financial statement prohibited.
48.44.110
False representation, advertising.
48.44.120
Misrepresentations of contract terms, benefits, etc.
48.44.130
Future dividends or refunds—When permissible.
48.44.140
Misleading comparisons to terminate or retain contract.
48.44.145
Examination of contractors—Duties of contractor, powers of commissioner—Independent audit reports.
48.44.150
Certificate of registration not an endorsement—Display in solicitation prohibited.
48.44.160
Revocation, suspension, refusal of registration—Hearing—Cease and desist orders, injunctive action—Grounds.
48.44.164
Notice of suspension, revocation, or refusal to be given contractor—Authority of insurance producers.
48.44.166
Fine in addition to or in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refusal.
48.44.170
Hearings and appeals.
48.44.180
Enforcement.
48.44.200
Individual health care service plan contracts—Coverage of dependent child with developmental or physical disability.
48.44.210
Group health care service plan contracts—Coverage of dependent child with developmental or physical disability.
48.44.212
Coverage of dependent children to include newborn infants and congenital anomalies from moment of birth—Notification period.
48.44.215
Option to cover child under age twenty-six.
48.44.220
Discrimination prohibited.
48.44.225
Podiatric physicians and surgeons not excluded.
48.44.230
Individual health service plan contract—Return within ten days of delivery—Refunds—Void from beginning—Notice required.
48.44.240
Chemical dependency benefits—Provisions of group contracts delivered or renewed after January 1, 1988.
48.44.241
Chemical dependency benefits—RCW 48.21.160 through 48.21.190, 48.44.240 inapplicable, when.
48.44.245
"Chemical dependency" defined.
48.44.250
Payment of premium by employee in event of suspension of compensation due to labor dispute.
48.44.260
Notice of reason for cancellation, denial, or refusal to renew contract.
48.44.270
Immunity from libel or slander.
48.44.290
Registered nurses or advanced registered nurses.
48.44.299
Legislative finding.
48.44.300
Podiatric medicine and surgery—Benefits not to be denied.
48.44.305
When injury caused by intoxication or use of narcotics.
48.44.309
Legislative finding.
48.44.310
Chiropractic care, coverage required, exceptions.
48.44.315
Diabetes coverage—Definitions.
48.44.320
Home health care, hospice care, optional coverage required—Standards, limitations, restrictions—Rules—Medicare supplemental contracts excluded.
48.44.323
Prescribed, self-administered anticancer medication.
48.44.325
Mammograms—Insurance coverage. (Effective until June 30, 2027.)
48.44.327
Prostate cancer screening. (Effective until June 30, 2027.)
48.44.330
Reconstructive breast surgery.
48.44.335
Mastectomy, lumpectomy.
48.44.341
Mental health services—Health plans—Definition—Coverage required, when. (Effective until January 1, 2027.)
48.44.342
Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
48.44.344
Benefits for prenatal diagnosis of congenital disorders—Contracts entered into or renewed on or after January 1, 1990.
48.44.350
Financial interests of health care service contractors, restricted—Exceptions, regulations.
48.44.360
Continuation option to be offered.
48.44.370
Conversion contract to be offered—Exceptions, conditions.
48.44.380
Conversion contract—Restrictions and requirements—Rules.
48.44.390
Modification of basis of agreement, endorsement required.
48.44.400
Continuance provisions for former family members.
48.44.420
Coverage for adopted children.
48.44.430
Cancellation of rider.
48.44.440
Phenylketonuria.
48.44.450
Neurodevelopmental therapies—Employer-sponsored group contracts.
48.44.460
Temporomandibular joint disorders—Insurance coverage.
48.44.465
Prescriptions—Preapproval of individual claims—Subsequent rejection prohibited—Written record required.
48.44.470
Nonresident pharmacies.
48.44.495
Dental services that are not subject to contract or provider agreement.
48.44.500
Denturist services.
48.44.530
Disclosure of certain material transactions—Report—Information is confidential.
48.44.535
Material acquisitions or dispositions.
48.44.540
Asset acquisitions—Asset dispositions.
48.44.545
Report of a material acquisition or disposition of assets—Information required.
48.44.550
Material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements.
48.44.555
Report of a material nonrenewal, cancellation, or revision of ceded reinsurance agreements—Information required.
48.44.900
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.