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                         SENATE BILL 5777

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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.

Addressing payment for denturist services.

    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.

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