The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington; Office of the Insurance Commissioner · Washington
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- RCW 48.02.060(4)
- Issued
- 2020-06-01 June 1, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-06-01
- End
- July 31, 2020 by its terms; extended under RCW 48.02.060(5) through September 5, 2021 (fourteenth extension, Ex. 045) and further (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- June 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersOther
- Addressees
- all health carriers authorized or admitted to offer health plans or short-term limited duration medical plans in Washington
- Functions reached
- IN health carriers (claims payment, network contracting)
- DX laboratories (industry 02) and CB payers
- Collection
- State insurance and banking regulators AGY-ST-INSURANCE-BANKING
Operative words
PURSUANT TO RCW 48.02.060(4), the Insurance Commissioner of the state of Washington ('Insurance Commissioner') orders all health carriers authorized or admitted to offer health plans or [short-term plans, as follows]: A. Regulated Entities must hold harmless Washington-resident enrollees from balance billing for COVID-19 diagnostic testing processed by in-state, out-of-network laboratories and out-of-state, out-of-network laboratories, when COVID-19 diagnostic testing is determined to be medically necessary by the enrollee's health care provider.
Enforcement
RCW 48.02.080; RCW 48.05.185
Notes
Recites the extension of Emergency Order 20-01 on May 1, 2020.