48.41.150 - Medical supplement policy. - Washington Statutes

Medical supplement policy.

(1) The board shall offer a medical supplement policy for persons receiving medicare parts A and B. The supplement policy shall provide benefits of one hundred percent of the deductible and copayment required under medicare and eighty percent of the charges for covered services under this chapter that are not paid by medicare. The coverage shall include a limitation of one thousand dollars per person on total annual out-of-pocket expenses for the covered services.

     (2) If federal law is adopted that addresses this subject, the board shall offer a policy that is consistent with that federal law.

[1989 c 121 § 9; 1987 c 431 § 15.]