CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1535

 

 

                    Chapter 64, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS' REIMBURSEMENT OF PODIATRIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 8, 1999

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 8, 1999

  Yeas 42   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1535  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved April 21, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

           April 21, 1999 - 3:12 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1535

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Health Care (originally sponsored by Representatives Parlette, Cody, Schual‑Berke, Romero, Ruderman, Esser, Hatfield, Boldt, Campbell, Pflug and Alexander)

 

Read first time 02/19/1999.

 Reimbursing podiatric physicians and surgeons.  


    AN ACT Relating to health maintenance organizations' reimbursement of podiatric physicians and surgeons; adding a new section to chapter 48.46 RCW; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 48.46 RCW to read as follows:

    Except to the extent that a health maintenance organization contracts with a group medical practice which only treats that organization's patients, a health maintenance organization may not discriminate in the terms and conditions, including reimbursement, for the provision of foot care services between physicians and surgeons licensed under chapters 18.22, 18.57, and 18.71 RCW.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  This act is intended to be procedural and not to impair the obligation of any existing contract.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.


    Passed the House March 8, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 8, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1999.