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                                  ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 836

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By House Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance (originally sponsored by Representatives Zellinsky, Smitherman, Barrett, West, R. King, Bond, Jacobsen, Miller and Hankins)

Read first time 3/8/85 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to payment of health care providers by health care service contractors as directed by subscribers; adding a new section to chapter 48.44 RCW; and repealing RCW 48.44.026.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 48.44 RCW to read as follows:

          This section applies only to those types of providers who are determined by the health care service contractor, from whom payment is sought, to be ineligible to participate by contract with the health care service contractor.  If such health care provider submits a claim directly to a health care service contractor for health care services covered by the health care service contract, and if the terms of such health care service contract permit payment to the type of provider submitting the claim, then the health care service contractor shall issue a check in payment directly to and in the single name of the provider as payee.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  Section 1, chapter 168, Laws of 1982, section 1, chapter 283, Laws of 1984 and RCW 48.44.026 are each repealed.