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
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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
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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
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BRAD
OWEN
President
of the Senate
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Approved April 21, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes
below.
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FILED
April 21, 1999 - 3:12
p.m.
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GARY
LOCKE
Governor
of the State of Washington
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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
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.