RCW 41.05.039 Health information—Secure access—Lead organization—Administrator’s duties. (1) By August 1, 2009, the *administrator shall designate one or more lead organizations to coordinate development of processes, guidelines, and standards to: (a) Improve patient access to and control of their own health care information and thereby enable their active participation in their own care; and (b) […]
RCW 41.05.042 Health information—Processes, guidelines, and standards. By December 1, 2011, the lead organization shall, consistent with the federal health insurance portability and accountability act, develop processes, guidelines, and standards that address: (1) Identification and prioritization of high value health data from health data providers. High value health data include: (a) Prescriptions; (b) Immunization records; […]
RCW 41.05.046 Health information—Conflict with federal requirements. If any provision in RCW 41.05.036, 41.05.039, and 41.05.042 conflicts with existing or new federal requirements, the *administrator shall recommend modifications, as needed, to assure compliance with the aims of RCW 41.05.036, 41.05.039, and 41.05.042 and federal requirements. [ 2009 c 300 § 5.] NOTES: *Reviser’s note: The […]
RCW 41.05.050 Contributions for employees and dependents—Definitions. (1) Every: (a) Department, division, or separate agency of state government; (b) county, municipal, school district, educational service district, or other political subdivisions; and (c) tribal governments as are covered by this chapter, shall provide contributions to insurance and health care plans for its employees and their dependents, […]
RCW 41.05.055 Public employees’ benefits board—Members. (1) The public employees’ benefits board is created within the authority. The function of the public employees’ benefits board is to design and approve insurance benefit plans for employees and to establish eligibility criteria for participation in insurance benefit plans. (2) The public employees’ benefits board shall be composed […]
RCW 41.05.065 Public employees’ benefits board—Duties—Eligibility—Definitions—Penalties. (1) The public employees’ benefits board shall study all matters connected with the provision of health care coverage, life insurance, liability insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and disability income insurance or any of, or a combination of, the enumerated types of insurance for employees and their dependents on […]
RCW 41.05.066 Domestic partner benefits. A certificate of domestic partnership qualified under the provisions of RCW 26.60.030 shall be recognized as evidence of a qualified domestic partnership fulfilling all necessary eligibility criteria for the partner of the employee or school employee to receive benefits. Nothing in this section affects the requirements of domestic partners to […]
RCW 41.05.068 Federal employer incentive program—Authority to participate. The authority may participate as an employer-sponsored program established in section 1860D-22 of the medicare prescription drug, improvement, and modernization act of 2003, P.L. 108-173 et seq., to receive federal employer subsidy funds for continuing to provide retired employee health coverage, including a pharmacy benefit. The *administrator, […]
RCW 41.05.074 Public employees—Prior authorization standards and criteria—Health plan requirements—Definitions. (1) A health plan offered to public employees and their covered dependents under this chapter that imposes different prior authorization standards and criteria for a covered service among tiers of contracting providers of the same licensed profession in the same health plan shall inform an […]
RCW 41.05.075 Employee benefit plans—Contracts with insuring entities—Performance measures—Financial incentives—Health information technology. (1) The director shall provide benefit plans designed by the board through a contract or contracts with insuring entities, through self-funding, self-insurance, or other methods of providing insurance coverage authorized by RCW 41.05.140. The process of contracting for plans offered by the school […]
RCW 41.05.080 Participation in insurance plans and contracts—Retired, disabled, or separated employees—Certain surviving spouses, state registered domestic partners, and dependent children. (1) Under the qualifications, terms, conditions, and benefits set by the public employees’ benefits board: (a) Retired or disabled state employees, retired or disabled school employees, retired or disabled employees of county, municipal, or […]
RCW 41.05.085 Retired state employee and retired or disabled school employee health insurance subsidy. (1) Beginning with the appropriations act for the 2005-2007 biennium, the legislature shall establish as part of both the state employees’ and the school and educational service district employees’ insurance benefit allocation the portion of the allocation to be used to […]
RCW 41.05.090 Continuation of coverage of employee, spouse, or covered dependent ineligible under state plan—Exceptions. (1) When an employee, spouse, or covered dependent becomes ineligible under the state plan and wishes to continue coverage on an individual basis with the same provider under the state plan, such employee, spouse, or covered dependent shall be entitled […]
RCW 41.05.095 Coverage for dependents under the age of twenty-six. (1) Any plan offered to employees under this chapter must offer each employee the option of covering any dependent of the employee under the age of twenty-six. (2) Coverage must terminate upon attainment of age twenty-six except in the case of a child who is […]
RCW 41.05.100 Chapter not applicable to certain employees of Cooperative Extension Service. The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to any employee of the Washington State University Cooperative Extension Service who holds a federal civil service appointment and is thereby eligible for insurance coverage under the regulations of the United States Department of […]
RCW 41.05.110 Chapter not applicable to officers and employees of state convention and trade center. The provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to the officers and employees of the nonprofit corporation formed under *chapter 67.40 RCW. [ 1984 c 210 § 3.] NOTES: *Reviser’s note: A majority of chapter 67.40 RCW was repealed […]
RCW 41.05.120 Public employees’ and retirees’ insurance account—School employees’ insurance account. (1) The public employees’ and retirees’ insurance account is hereby established in the custody of the state treasurer, to be used by the director for the deposit of contributions, the remittance paid by school districts and educational service districts under RCW 28A.400.410, reserves, dividends, […]
RCW 41.05.123 Flexible spending administrative account—Salary reduction account—School employees’ benefits board flexible spending and dependent care administrative account—School employees’ benefits board salary reduction account. (1) For the public employees’ benefits board program, the flexible spending administrative account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. (a) All receipts from the following must be deposited […]
RCW 41.05.130 State health care authority administrative account—School employees’ insurance administrative account. (1) The state health care authority administrative account is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account, including unanticipated revenues under RCW 43.79.270, may be spent only after appropriation by statute, and may be used only for operating expenses of the […]
RCW 41.05.140 Payment of claims—Self-insurance—Insurance reserve fund created. (1) Except for property and casualty insurance, the authority may self-fund, self-insure, or enter into other methods of providing insurance coverage for insurance programs under its jurisdiction, including the basic health plan as provided in chapter 70.47 RCW. The authority shall contract for payment of claims or […]
