2009 Washington Code
Title 48 - Insurance
Chapter 48.44 - Health care services.
48.44.310 - Chiropractic care, coverage required, exceptions.
Chiropractic care, coverage required, exceptions.
(1) Each group contract for comprehensive health care service which is entered into, or renewed, on or after September 8, 1983, between a health care service contractor and the person or persons to receive such care shall offer coverage for chiropractic care on the same basis as any other care.
(2) A patient of a chiropractor shall not be denied benefits under a contract because the practitioner is not licensed under chapter 18.57 or 18.71 RCW.
(3) This section shall not apply to a group contract for comprehensive health care services entered into in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement between management and labor representatives. Benefits for chiropractic care shall be offered by the employer in good faith on the same basis as any other care as a subject for collective bargaining for group contracts for health care services.
[1986 c 223 § 8; 1983 c 286 § 2.]
Notes: Severability -- 1983 c 286: See note following RCW 48.44.309.
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