STATE STATUTES & CODES

WASHINGTON STATUTES AND CODES

48.44 - Health care services.

• 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 -- Remittance of premiums -- 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.
• 48.44.070 - Contracts to be filed with commissioner.
• 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 not to terminate because of developmental disability or physical handicap.
• 48.44.210 - Group health care service plan contracts -- Coverage of dependent child not to terminate because of developmental disability or physical handicap.
• 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 dependents under age twenty-five.
• 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.
• 48.44.325 - Mammograms -- Insurance coverage.
• 48.44.327 - Prostate cancer screening.
• 48.44.330 - Reconstructive breast surgery.
• 48.44.335 - Mastectomy, lumpectomy.
• 48.44.341 - Mental health services -- Health plans -- Definition -- Coverage required, when.
• 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.
• 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.

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