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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6180

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators West, Kreidler, Sellar, von Reichbauer, Johnson and Newhouse; by request of Washington Basic Health Plan

Prefiled with Secretary of the Senate 1/2/90.  Read first time 1/8/90 and referred to Committee on Health & Long Term Care.

AN ACT Relating to confidentiality of basic health plan records; and adding a new section to chapter 70.47 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.47 RCW to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 42.17 RCW, (1) records obtained, reviewed by, or on file with the plan containing information concerning medical treatment of individuals shall be exempt from public inspection and copying; and (2) actuarial formulas, statistics, and assumptions submitted in support of a rate filing by a managed health care system or submitted to the administrator upon his or her request shall be exempt from public inspection and copying in order to preserve trade secrets or prevent unfair competition.