CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5777

56th Legislature

1999 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1999

YEAS 44 NAYS 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 8, 1999

YEAS 95 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5777 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Secretary

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SENATE BILL 5777

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Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session

By Senators Prentice and Winsley

Read first time 02/08/1999. Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

AN ACT Relating to payment for denturist services; and amending RCW 48.44.026.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 48.44.026 and 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 732 are each amended to read as follows:

Checks in payment for claims pursuant to any health care service contract for health care services provided by persons licensed or regulated under chapters 18.25, 18.29, 18.30, 18.32, 18.53, 18.57, 18.64, 18.71, 18.73, 18.74, 18.83, or 18.79 RCW, as it applies to registered nurses and advanced registered nurse practitioners, where the provider is not a participating provider under a contract with the health care service contractor, shall be made out to both the provider and the enrolled participant with the provider as the first named payee, jointly, to require endorsement by each: PROVIDED, That payment shall be made in the single name of the enrolled participant if the enrolled participant as part of his or her claim furnishes evidence of prepayment to the health care service provider: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing in this section shall preclude a health care service contractor from voluntarily issuing payment in the single name of the provider.