PDFRCW 48.49.070

Hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or behavioral health emergency services providerRequirement to provide certain information on website or upon consumer requestRequirement to provide carriers with nonemployed provider lists.

(1)(a) A hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or behavioral health emergency services provider must post the following information on its website, if one is available:
(i) The listing of the carrier health plan provider networks with which the hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or behavioral health emergency services provider is an in-network provider, based upon the information provided by the carrier pursuant to RCW 48.43.730(7); and
(ii) The notice of consumer rights developed under RCW 48.49.060.
(b) If the hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or behavioral health emergency services provider does not maintain a website, this information must be provided to consumers upon an oral or written request.
(2) Posting or otherwise providing the information required in this section does not relieve a hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or behavioral health emergency services provider of its obligation to comply with the provisions of this chapter.
(3) Not less than thirty days prior to executing a contract with a carrier, a hospital or ambulatory surgical facility must provide the carrier with a list of the nonemployed providers or provider groups contracted to provide emergency medicine, anesthesiology, pathology, radiology, neonatology, surgery, hospitalist, intensivist[,] and diagnostic services, including radiology and laboratory services at the hospital or ambulatory surgical facility. The hospital or ambulatory surgical facility must notify the carrier within thirty days of a removal from or addition to the nonemployed provider list. A hospital or ambulatory surgical facility also must provide an updated list of these providers within fourteen calendar days of a request for an updated list by a carrier.
[ 2022 c 263 § 14; 2019 c 427 § 11.]

NOTES:

Effective date2022 c 263: See note following RCW 43.371.100.