Washington § 48.150.100 - Annual statements — Commissioner's report.

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§ 48.150.100. Annual statements — Commissioner's report.

(1) Direct practices must submit annual statements, beginning on October 1, 2007, to the office of the insurance commissioner specifying the number of providers in each practice, total number of patients being served, the average direct fee being charged, providers' names, and the business address for each direct practice. The form and content for the annual statement must be developed in a manner prescribed by the commissioner. Information and data, other than providers' names and business addresses, reported in the annual statements is confidential and exempt from public disclosure pursuant to chapter 42.56 RCW. When reporting publicly on the number of patients being served or the average direct fee being charged, the commissioner shall report the information in appropriate banded ranges.
(2) A health care provider may not act as, or hold himself or herself out to be, a direct practice in this state, nor may a direct agreement be entered into with a direct patient in this state, unless the provider submits the annual statement in subsection (1) of this section to the commissioner.
(3) The commissioner shall report annually to the legislature on direct practices including, but not limited to, participation trends, complaints received, voluntary data reported by the direct practices, and any necessary modifications to this chapter. The commissioner's report and the data in it shall be in aggregate form that does not permit the identification of individual direct practices. The initial report shall be due December 1, 2009.
[ 2025 c 243 s 13; 2007 c 267 s 12.]

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