2019 Revised Code of Washington
Title 48 - Insurance
Chapter 48.49 - Balance Billing Protection Act.
48.49.070 Hospital or ambulatory surgical facility—Requirement to provide certain information on web site or upon consumer request—Requirement to provide carriers with nonemployed provider lists.

RCW 48.49.070 Hospital or ambulatory surgical facility—Requirement to provide certain information on web site or upon consumer request—Requirement to provide carriers with nonemployed provider lists. (Effective January 1, 2020.)

(1)(a) A hospital or ambulatory surgical facility must post the following information on its web site, if one is available:

(i) The listing of the carrier health plan provider networks with which the hospital or ambulatory surgical facility is an in-network provider, based upon the information provided by the carrier pursuant to RCW 48.43.730(7); and

(ii) The notice of consumer rights developed under RCW 48.49.060.

(b) If the hospital or ambulatory surgical facility does not maintain a web site, this information must be provided to consumers upon an oral or written request.

(2) Posting or otherwise providing the information required in this section does not relieve a hospital or ambulatory surgical facility of its obligation to comply with the provisions of this chapter.

(3) Not less than thirty days prior to executing a contract with a carrier, a hospital or ambulatory surgical facility must provide the carrier with a list of the nonemployed providers or provider groups contracted to provide surgical or ancillary services at the hospital or ambulatory surgical facility. The hospital or ambulatory surgical facility must notify the carrier within thirty days of a removal from or addition to the nonemployed provider list. A hospital or ambulatory surgical facility also must provide an updated list of these providers within fourteen calendar days of a request for an updated list by a carrier.

[ 2019 c 427 § 11.]