RCW 48.46.292
Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
A health maintenance organization providing services or benefits for hospital or medical care coverage in this state shall waive a preauthorization from the health maintenance organization before an enrolled participant or the enrolled participant's covered dependents receive mental health treatment rendered by a state hospital as defined in RCW 72.23.010 if the enrolled participant or the enrolled participant's covered dependents are involuntarily committed to a state hospital as defined in RCW 72.23.010.
[ 1993 c 272 § 5.]
NOTES:
Savings—Severability—1993 c 272: See notes following RCW 43.20B.347.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 48.46 - Health Maintenance Organizations.
48.46.010 - Legislative declaration—Purpose.
48.46.012 - Filings with secretary of state—Copy for commissioner.
48.46.027 - Registration, required—Issuance of securities—Penalty.
48.46.033 - Unregistered activities—Acts committed in this state—Sanctions.
48.46.045 - Catastrophic health plans permitted.
48.46.062 - Schedule of rates for individual agreements—Loss ratio—Definitions.
48.46.064 - Calculation of premiums—Adjusted community rate—Definitions.
48.46.068 - Requirements for plans offered to small employers—Definitions.
48.46.080 - Annual statement—Filings—Contents—Fee—Penalty for failure to file—Accuracy required.
48.46.090 - Standard of services provided.
48.46.100 - Grievance procedure.
48.46.135 - Fine in addition to or in lieu of suspension, revocation, or refusal.
48.46.170 - Effect of chapter as to other laws—Construction.
48.46.190 - Payroll deductions for capitation payments to health maintenance organizations.
48.46.200 - Rules and regulations.
48.46.210 - Compliance with federal funding requirements—Construction.
48.46.220 - Review of administrative action.
48.46.225 - Financial failure—Supervision of commissioner—Priority of distribution of assets.
48.46.235 - Minimum net worth—Requirement to maintain—Determination of amount.
48.46.237 - Minimum net worth—Domestic or foreign health maintenance organization.
48.46.240 - Funded reserve requirements.
48.46.243 - Contract—Participant liability.
48.46.245 - Plan for handling insolvency—Commissioner's review.
48.46.247 - Insolvency—Commissioner's duties—Participants' options—Allocation of coverage.
48.46.272 - Diabetes coverage—Definitions.
48.46.274 - Prescribed, self-administered anticancer medication.
48.46.275 - Mammograms—Insurance coverage.
48.46.277 - Prostate cancer screening.
48.46.280 - Reconstructive breast surgery.
48.46.285 - Mastectomy, lumpectomy.
48.46.291 - Mental health services—Health plans—Definition—Coverage required, when.
48.46.292 - Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
48.46.300 - Future dividends or refunds, restricted—Issuance or sale of securities regulated.
48.46.310 - Registration not endorsement.
48.46.320 - Dependent children, termination of coverage, conditions.
48.46.325 - Option to cover child under age twenty-six.
48.46.340 - Return of agreement within ten days.
48.46.350 - Chemical dependency treatment.
48.46.355 - "Chemical dependency" defined.
48.46.370 - Coverage not denied for disability.
48.46.380 - Notice of reason for cancellation, denial, or refusal to renew agreement.
48.46.400 - False or misleading advertising prohibited.
48.46.410 - Misrepresentations to induce termination or retention of agreement prohibited.
48.46.420 - Penalty for violations.
48.46.430 - Enforcement authority of commissioner.
48.46.440 - Continuation option to be offered.
48.46.450 - Conversion agreement to be offered—Exceptions, conditions.
48.46.460 - Conversion agreement—Restrictions and requirements—Rules.
48.46.470 - Endorsement of modifications.
48.46.480 - Continuation of coverage of former family members.
48.46.490 - Coverage for adopted children.
48.46.500 - Cancellation of rider.
48.46.520 - Neurodevelopmental therapies—Employer-sponsored group contracts.
48.46.530 - Temporomandibular joint disorders—Insurance coverage.
48.46.540 - Nonresident pharmacies.
48.46.565 - Foot care services.
48.46.570 - Denturist services.
48.46.580 - When injury caused by intoxication or use of narcotics.
48.46.600 - Disclosure of certain material transactions—Report—Information is confidential.
48.46.605 - Material acquisitions or dispositions.
48.46.610 - Asset acquisitions—Asset dispositions.
48.46.615 - Report of a material acquisition or disposition of assets—Information required.
48.46.620 - Material nonrenewals, cancellations, or revisions of ceded reinsurance agreements.
48.46.900 - Liberal construction.
48.46.930 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.