RCW 70.230.010 Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) “Ambulatory surgical facility” means any distinct entity that operates for the primary purpose of providing specialty or multispecialty outpatient surgical services in which patients are admitted to and discharged from the facility within twenty-four hours and […]
RCW 70.230.020 Duties of secretary—Rules. The secretary shall: (1) Issue a license to any ambulatory surgical facility that: (a) Submits payment of the fee established in RCW 43.70.110 and 43.70.250; (b) Submits a completed application that demonstrates the ability to comply with the standards established for operating and maintaining an ambulatory surgical facility in statute […]
RCW 70.230.030 Operating without a license. Except as provided in RCW 70.230.040, after June 30, 2009, no person or governmental unit of the state of Washington, acting separately or jointly with any other person or governmental unit, shall establish, maintain, or conduct an ambulatory surgical facility in this state or advertise by using the term […]
RCW 70.230.040 Exclusions from chapter. Nothing in this chapter: (1) Applies to an ambulatory surgical facility that is maintained and operated by a hospital licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW; (2) Applies to an office maintained for the practice of dentistry; (3) Applies to outpatient specialty or multispecialty surgical services routinely and customarily performed in the […]
RCW 70.230.050 Licenses—Applicants—Renewal. (1) An applicant for a license to operate an ambulatory surgical facility must demonstrate the ability to comply with the standards established for operating and maintaining an ambulatory surgical facility in statute and rule, including: (a) Submitting a written application to the department providing all necessary information on a form provided by […]
RCW 70.230.060 Facility safety and emergency training. An ambulatory surgical facility shall have a facility safety and emergency training program. The program shall include: (1) On-site equipment, medication, and trained personnel to facilitate handling of services sought or provided and to facilitate the management of any medical emergency that may arise in connection with services […]
RCW 70.230.070 Denial, suspension, or revocation of license—Investigating complaints—Penalties. (1) The secretary may deny, suspend, or revoke the license of any ambulatory surgical facility in any case in which he or she finds the applicant or registered entity knowingly made a false statement of material fact in the application for the license or any supporting […]
RCW 70.230.080 Coordinated quality improvement—Rules. (1) Every ambulatory surgical facility shall maintain a coordinated quality improvement program for the improvement of the quality of health care services rendered to patients and the identification and prevention of medical malpractice. The program shall include at least the following: (a) The establishment of one or more quality improvement […]
RCW 70.230.090 Ambulatory surgical facilities—Construction, maintenance, and operation—Minimum standards and rules. The department shall establish and adopt such minimum standards and rules pertaining to the construction, maintenance, and operation of ambulatory surgical facilities and rescind, amend, or modify such rules, as are necessary in the public interest, and particularly for the establishment and maintenance of […]
RCW 70.230.100 Ambulatory surgical facilities—Surveys. (1) The department shall make or cause to be made a survey of all ambulatory surgical facilities according to the following frequency: (a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, an ambulatory surgical facility must be surveyed by the department no more than once every eighteen months. (b) An […]
RCW 70.230.110 Ambulatory surgical facilities—Submission of data related to the quality of patient care. The department shall require ambulatory surgical facilities to submit data related to the quality of patient care for review by the department. The data shall be submitted every eighteen months. The department shall consider the reporting standards of other public and […]
RCW 70.230.120 Reports—Discipline of a health care provider for unprofessional conduct—Penalties. (1) The chief administrator or executive officer of an ambulatory surgical facility shall report to the department when the practice of a health care provider licensed by a disciplining authority under RCW 18.130.040 is restricted, suspended, limited, or terminated based upon a conviction, determination, […]
RCW 70.230.130 Written records—Decisions to restrict or terminate privileges of practitioners—Penalties. Each ambulatory surgical facility shall keep written records of decisions to restrict or terminate privileges of practitioners. Copies of such records shall be made available to the Washington medical commission, the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery, or the podiatric medical board, within thirty […]
RCW 70.230.140 Information concerning practitioners—Disclosure. (1) Prior to granting or renewing clinical privileges or association of any practitioner or hiring a practitioner, an ambulatory surgical facility approved pursuant to this chapter shall request from the practitioner and the practitioner shall provide the following information: (a) The name of any hospital, ambulatory surgical facility, or other […]
RCW 70.230.150 Unanticipated outcomes—Notification. Ambulatory surgical facilities shall have in place policies to assure that, when appropriate, information about unanticipated outcomes is provided to patients or their families or any surrogate decision makers identified pursuant to RCW 7.70.065. Notifications of unanticipated outcomes under this section do not constitute an acknowledgment or admission of liability, nor […]
RCW 70.230.160 Complaint toll-free telephone number—Notice. Every ambulatory surgical facility shall post in conspicuous locations a notice of the department’s ambulatory surgical facility complaint toll-free telephone number. The form of the notice shall be approved by the department. [ 2007 c 273 § 17.]
RCW 70.230.170 Information received by department—Disclosure. Information received by the department through filed reports, inspection, or as otherwise authorized under this chapter may be disclosed publicly, as permitted under chapter 42.56 RCW, subject to the following provisions: (1) Licensing inspections, or complaint investigations regardless of findings, shall, as requested, be disclosed no sooner than three […]
RCW 70.230.190 Certain ambulatory surgical facilities deemed to have complied with survey requirements of RCW 70.230.100. Any entity that meets the definition of an ambulatory surgical facility in RCW 70.230.010 that had been issued a license on or after July 1, 2009, that was later declared void by a department determination that the entity did […]
RCW 70.230.210 Pattern of balance billing protection act violations by ambulatory surgical facility—Fines and disciplinary action. If the insurance commissioner reports to the department that he or she has cause to believe that an ambulatory surgical facility has engaged in a pattern of violations of RCW 48.49.020 or 48.49.030, and the report is substantiated after […]
RCW 70.230.900 Effective date—2007 c 273. Except for section 7 of this act, this act takes effect July 1, 2009. [ 2007 c 273 § 29.]
