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RCW Sections

• 48.44.010  Definitions.
• 48.44.011  Agent -- 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 agents.
• 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.
• 48.44.220  Discrimination prohibited.
• 48.44.225  Podiatrists 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  Podiatry -- 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.
• 48.44.340  Mental health treatment, optional supplemental coverage -- Waiver.
• 48.44.341  Mental health services -- Group 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.
• 48.44.500  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.

Notes:

Agents of health care service contractors, additional regulations applicable: RCW 48.17.065.