{"id":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-040","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Washington; Office of the Insurance Commissioner (State insurance regulator)","state":"WA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-INSURANCE-BANKING","eco":"","issuer":"Mike Kreidler, Insurance Commissioner","authority":"RCW 48.02.060(4)","instrument":"Emergency Order No. 20-01","title":"Emergency Order requiring health carriers to cover COVID-19 testing without cost-sharing and to permit early prescription refills","dateIssued":"2020-03-05","effective":"2020-03-05","end":"May 4, 2020 by its terms; extended eighteen times under RCW 48.02.060(5), to September 5, 2021 (seventeenth extension, Ex. 046) and October 3, 2021 (eighteenth extension, Ex. 099), and further thereafter","startDate":"2020-03-05","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["all health carriers as defined in RCW 48.43.005(28) authorized or admitted to offer health plans or short-term limited duration medical plans in Washington"],"clause":"PURSUANT TO the Governor\u0027s Proclamation and RCW 48.02.060(4), the Insurance Commissioner of the state of Washington (\u0027Insurance Commissioner\u0027) orders all health carriers, as defined in RCW 48.43.005(28), authorized or admitted to offer health plans, as defined in RCW 48.43.005(29) or short-term limited duration medical plans in Washington state, during the period of March 5, 2020 through May 4, 2020, as follows: A. Cover, prior to application of any deductible and with no cost-sharing, the health care [provider visit and laboratory test for COVID-19]... This Order shall remain in effect until May 4, 2020, subject to the further order of the Insurance Commissioner extending its effect.","enforcement":"RCW 48.02.080 (Commissioner\u0027s enforcement; cease and desist; penalties under RCW 48.05.185)","functions":["IN health carriers (cost-sharing, claims)","CB payers of Washington providers (industries 01-04): testing visits and telehealth without cost sharing","TM telehealth"],"notes":"The first State insurance emergency order of the pandemic; in force on every day of the six claimable quarters through its extensions.","sourceUrl":"https://www.insurance.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/emergency-order-number-20-01.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200307094852/https://www.insurance.wa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/emergency-order-number-20-01.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":257164,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING","url":"/library/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-040","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-040","citation":"Mike Kreidler, Insurance Commissioner, Emergency Order No. 20-01 (Mar. 5, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-040)","stateName":"Washington","related":["AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-041","AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING-042"]}