HB 2787-S.E - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Declares that a "community health care setting" means an entity that provides health care services and is a clinic operated by a public entity or private tax exempt corporation, except a clinic that is owned, operated, or controlled by a hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW unless the hospital-based clinic either: (1) Maintains and holds itself out to the public as having established hours on a regular basis for providing free health care services to members of the public to the extent that care is provided without compensation or expectation of compensation during those established hours; or

(2) Is participating, through a written agreement, in a community-based program to provide access to health care services for uninsured persons, to the extent that: (a) Care is provided without compensation or expectation of compensation to individuals who have been referred for care through that community-based program; and (b) the health care provider's participation in the community-based program is conditioned upon his or her agreement to provide health services without expectation of compensation.