RCW 48.44.342
Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
A health care service contractor providing hospital or medical services or benefits in this state shall waive a preauthorization from the contractor before an insured or an insured's covered dependents receive mental health treatment rendered by a state hospital as defined in RCW 72.23.010 if the insured or the insured's covered dependents are involuntarily committed to a state hospital as defined in RCW 72.23.010.
[ 1993 c 272 § 4.]
NOTES:
Savings—Severability—1993 c 272: See notes following RCW 43.20B.347.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 48.44 - Health Care Services.
48.44.013 - Filings with secretary of state—Copy for commissioner.
48.44.015 - Registration by health care service contractors required—Penalty.
48.44.016 - Unregistered activities—Acts committed in this state—Sanctions.
48.44.017 - Schedule of rates for individual contracts—Loss ratio—Definitions.
48.44.022 - Calculation of premiums—Adjusted community rate—Definitions.
48.44.024 - Requirements for plans offered to small employers—Definitions.
48.44.026 - Payment for certain health care services.
48.44.030 - Underwriting of indemnity by insurance policy, bond, securities, or cash deposit.
48.44.033 - Financial failure—Supervision of commissioner—Priority of distribution of assets.
48.44.035 - Limited health care service—Uncovered expenditures—Minimum net worth requirements.
48.44.037 - Minimum net worth—Requirement to maintain—Determination of amount.
48.44.039 - Minimum net worth—Domestic or foreign health care service contractor.
48.44.040 - Registration with commissioner—Fee.
48.44.050 - Rules and regulations.
48.44.055 - Plan for handling insolvency—Commissioner's review.
48.44.057 - Insolvency—Commissioner's duties—Participants' options—Allocation of coverage.
48.44.095 - Annual financial statement—Filings—Contents—Fee—Penalty for failure to file.
48.44.100 - Filing inaccurate financial statement prohibited.
48.44.110 - False representation, advertising.
48.44.120 - Misrepresentations of contract terms, benefits, etc.
48.44.130 - Future dividends or refunds—When permissible.
48.44.140 - Misleading comparisons to terminate or retain contract.
48.44.150 - Certificate of registration not an endorsement—Display in solicitation prohibited.
48.44.166 - Fine in addition to or in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refusal.
48.44.170 - Hearings and appeals.
48.44.215 - Option to cover child under age twenty-six.
48.44.220 - Discrimination prohibited.
48.44.225 - Podiatric physicians and surgeons not excluded.
48.44.245 - "Chemical dependency" defined.
48.44.260 - Notice of reason for cancellation, denial, or refusal to renew contract.
48.44.270 - Immunity from libel or slander.
48.44.290 - Registered nurses or advanced registered nurses.
48.44.299 - Legislative finding.
48.44.300 - Podiatric medicine and surgery—Benefits not to be denied.
48.44.305 - When injury caused by intoxication or use of narcotics.
48.44.309 - Legislative finding.
48.44.310 - Chiropractic care, coverage required, exceptions.
48.44.315 - Diabetes coverage—Definitions.
48.44.323 - Prescribed, self-administered anticancer medication.
48.44.325 - Mammograms—Insurance coverage.
48.44.327 - Prostate cancer screening.
48.44.330 - Reconstructive breast surgery.
48.44.335 - Mastectomy, lumpectomy.
48.44.341 - Mental health services—Health plans—Definition—Coverage required, when.
48.44.342 - Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
48.44.360 - Continuation option to be offered.
48.44.370 - Conversion contract to be offered—Exceptions, conditions.
48.44.380 - Conversion contract—Restrictions and requirements—Rules.
48.44.390 - Modification of basis of agreement, endorsement required.
48.44.400 - Continuance provisions for former family members.
48.44.420 - Coverage for adopted children.
48.44.430 - Cancellation of rider.
48.44.450 - Neurodevelopmental therapies—Employer-sponsored group contracts.
48.44.460 - Temporomandibular joint disorders—Insurance coverage.
48.44.470 - Nonresident pharmacies.
48.44.495 - Dental services that are not subject to contract or provider agreement.
48.44.500 - Denturist services.
48.44.530 - Disclosure of certain material transactions—Report—Information is confidential.
48.44.535 - Material acquisitions or dispositions.
48.44.540 - Asset acquisitions—Asset dispositions.
48.44.545 - Report of a material acquisition or disposition of assets—Information required.
48.44.550 - Material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements.
48.44.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.