6034 AMS MOYE S2242.1
SB 6034 - S AMD 044
By Senators Moyer and Wood
S/O BEYOND SCOPE - 3/7/95
On page 1, after line 4, insert the following:
"Sec. 1. RCW 43.72.010 and 1994 c 4 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Certified health plan" or "plan" means a disability insurer regulated under chapter 48.20 or 48.21 RCW, a health care service contractor as defined in RCW 48.44.010, a health maintenance organization as defined in RCW 48.46.020, or an entity certified in accordance with RCW 48.43.020 through 48.43.120.
(2) "Chair" means the presiding officer of the Washington health services commission.
(3) "Commission" or "health services commission" means the Washington health services commission.
(4) "Community rate" means the rating method used to establish the premium for the uniform benefits package adjusted to reflect actuarially demonstrated differences in utilization or cost attributable to geographic region and family size as determined by the commission.
(5) "Continuous quality improvement and total quality management" means a continuous process to improve health services while reducing costs.
(6) (("Employee"
means a resident who is in the employment of an employer, as defined by chapter
50.04 RCW.
(7)))
"Enrollee" means any person who is a Washington resident enrolled in
a certified health plan.
(((8)))
(7) "Enrollee point of service cost-sharing" means amounts
paid to certified health plans directly providing services, health care
providers, or health care facilities by enrollees for receipt of specific
uniform benefits package services, and may include copayments, coinsurance, or
deductibles, that together must be actuarially equivalent across plans and
within overall limits established by the commission.
(((9)))
(8) "Enrollee premium sharing" means that portion of the
premium that is paid by enrollees or their family members.
(((10)))
(9) "Federal poverty level" means the federal poverty
guidelines determined annually by the United States department of health and
human services or successor agency.
(((11)))
(10) "Health care facility" or "facility" means
hospices licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW, hospitals licensed under chapter
70.41 RCW, rural health care facilities as defined in RCW 70.175.020, psychiatric
hospitals licensed under chapter 71.12 RCW, nursing homes licensed under
chapter 18.51 RCW, community mental health centers licensed under chapter 71.05
or 71.24 RCW, kidney disease treatment centers licensed under chapter 70.41
RCW, ambulatory diagnostic, treatment or surgical facilities licensed under
chapter 70.41 RCW, drug and alcohol treatment facilities licensed under chapter
70.96A RCW, and home health agencies licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW, and
includes such facilities if owned and operated by a political subdivision or
instrumentality of the state and such other facilities as required by federal
law and implementing regulations, but does not include Christian Science
sanatoriums operated, listed, or certified by the First Church of Christ
Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts.
(((12)))
(11) "Health care provider" or "provider" means:
(a) A person regulated under Title 18 RCW and chapter 70.127 RCW, to practice health or health-related services or otherwise practicing health care services in this state consistent with state law; or
(b) An employee or agent of a person described in (a) of this subsection, acting in the course and scope of his or her employment.
(((13)))
(12) "Health insurance purchasing cooperative" or
"cooperative" means a member-owned and governed nonprofit
organization certified in accordance with RCW 43.72.080 and 48.43.160.
(((14)))
(13) "Long-term care" means institutional, residential,
outpatient, or community-based services that meet the individual needs of
persons of all ages who are limited in their functional capacities or have
disabilities and require assistance with performing two or more activities of
daily living for an extended or indefinite period of time. These services
include case management, protective supervision, in-home care, nursing
services, convalescent, custodial, chronic, and terminally ill care.
(((15)))
(14) "Major capital expenditure" means any project or
expenditure for capital construction, renovations, or acquisition, including
medical technological equipment, as defined by the commission, costing more
than one million dollars.
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(15) "Managed care" means an integrated system of insurance,
financing, and health services delivery functions that: (a) Assumes financial
risk for delivery of health services and uses a defined network of providers;
or (b) assumes financial risk for delivery of health services and promotes the
efficient delivery of health services through provider assumption of some
financial risk including capitation, prospective payment, resource-based
relative value scales, fee schedules, or similar method of limiting payments to
health care providers.
(((17)))
(16) "Maximum enrollee financial participation" means the
income-related total annual payments that may be required of an enrollee per
family who chooses one of the three lowest priced uniform benefits packages
offered by plans in a geographic region including both premium sharing and
enrollee point of service cost-sharing.
(((18)))
(17) "Persons of color" means Asians/Pacific Islanders,
African, Hispanic, and Native Americans.
(((19)))
(18) "Premium" means all sums charged, received, or deposited
by a certified health plan as consideration for a uniform benefits package or
the continuance of a uniform benefits package. Any assessment, or any
"membership," "policy," "contract,"
"service," or similar fee or charge made by the certified health plan
in consideration for the uniform benefits package is deemed part of the premium.
"Premium" shall not include amounts paid as enrollee point of service
cost-sharing.
(((20)
"Qualified employee" means an employee who is employed at least
thirty hours during a week or one hundred twenty hours during a calendar month.
(21)
"Registered employer health plan" means a health plan established by
a private employer of more than seven thousand active employees in this state
solely for the benefit of such employees and their dependents and that meets
the requirements of RCW 43.72.120. Nothing contained in this subsection shall
be deemed to preclude the plan from providing benefits to retirees of the
employer.
(22))) (19)
"Supplemental benefits" means those appropriate and effective health
services that are not included in the uniform benefits package or that expand
the type or level of health services available under the uniform benefits
package and that are offered to all residents in accordance with the provisions
of RCW 43.72.160 and 43.72.170.
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(20) "Technology" means the drugs, devices, equipment, and
medical or surgical procedures used in the delivery of health services, and the
organizational or supportive systems within which such services are provided.
It also means sophisticated and complicated machinery developed as a result of
ongoing research in the basic biological and physical sciences, clinical
medicine, electronics, and computer sciences, as well as specialized
professionals, medical equipment, procedures, and chemical formulations used
for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
(((24)))
(21) "Uniform benefits package" or "package" means
those appropriate and effective health services, defined by the commission
under RCW 43.72.130, that must be offered to all Washington residents through
certified health plans.
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(22) "Washington resident" or "resident" means a
person who intends to reside in the state permanently or indefinitely and who
did not move to Washington for the primary purpose of securing health services
under RCW 43.72.090 through 43.72.240, 43.72.300, 43.72.310, 43.72.800, and
chapters 48.43 and 48.85 RCW. "Washington resident" also includes
people and their accompanying family members who are residing in the state for
the purpose of engaging in employment for at least one month, who did not enter
the state for the primary purpose of obtaining health services. The
confinement of a person in a nursing home, hospital, or other medical
institution in the state shall not by itself be sufficient to qualify such
person as a resident."
Renumber the remaining sections consecutively and correct internal references accordingly.
SB 6034 - S AMD
By Senators Moyer and Wood
On page 1, line 2 of the title, after "employers;" insert "amending RCW 43.72.010;"
EFFECT: Definitions of employer, employee, and registered employee health plans are abolished.
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