2404-S AMS JACO S5815.1

SHB 2404  - S AMD TO HEA COMM AMD (S5589.1)329
     By Senator Jacobsen

     On page 4, after line 13 of the amendment, insert the following:
     "(3) The retainer health care practice shall charge a retainer fee of no more than thirty dollars per month per person for adult retainer subscribers whose ages are nineteen through sixty-four years, and shall further charge children eighteen years or younger and senior adults age sixty-five years or older no more than one-half the adult fee. The commissioner may adjust the maximum retainer fee annually by no more than the "medical consumer price index," not seasonally adjusted, for all urban consumers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton area."

     Renumber the remaining subsections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

EFFECT:  Sets retainer medicine fees in statute and allows the OIC to adjust annually.

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