Source: http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=41.05.021
Timestamp: 2017-11-20 13:47:40
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41.05.017 << 41.05.021 >> 41.05.022
RCW 41.05.021
State health care authority—Director—Cost control and delivery strategies—Health information technology—Managed competition—Rules.
(1) The Washington state health care authority is created within the executive branch. The authority shall have a director appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate. The director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The director may employ a deputy director, and such assistant directors and special assistants as may be needed to administer the authority, who shall be exempt from chapter 41.06 RCW, and any additional staff members as are necessary to administer this chapter. The director may delegate any power or duty vested in him or her by law, including authority to make final decisions and enter final orders in hearings conducted under chapter 34.05 RCW. The primary duties of the authority shall be to: Administer insurance benefits for state employees, retired or disabled state and school employees, and subject to school employees' benefits board direction, school employees; administer the basic health plan pursuant to chapter 70.47 RCW; administer the children's health program pursuant to chapter 74.09 RCW; study state purchased health care programs in order to maximize cost containment in these programs while ensuring access to quality health care; implement state initiatives, joint purchasing strategies, and techniques for efficient administration that have potential application to all state-purchased health services; and administer grants that further the mission and goals of the authority. The authority's duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) To administer health care benefit programs for state employees, retired or disabled state and school employees, and subject to school employees' benefits board direction, school employees as specifically authorized in RCW 41.05.065 and 41.05.740 and in accordance with the methods described in RCW 41.05.075, 41.05.140, and other provisions of this chapter;
(d) To provide information and technical and administrative assistance to the board and the school employees' benefits board;
(i) Setting forth the criteria established by the board under RCW 41.05.065, and by the school employees' benefits board under RCW 41.05.740, for determining whether an employee is eligible for benefits;
(iii) Establishing a process to assure that the eligibility determinations of an employing agency comply with the criteria under this chapter, including the imposition of penalties as may be authorized by the board or the school employees' benefits board;
(2) On and after January 1, 1996, the public employees' benefits board and the school employees' benefits board beginning October 1, 2017, may implement strategies to promote managed competition among employee health benefit plans. Strategies may include but are not limited to:
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 13 § 803; 2012 c 87 § 23; 2011 1st sp.s. c 15 § 56; 2009 c 537 § 4. Prior: 2007 c 274 § 1; 2007 c 114 § 3; 2006 c 103 § 2; 2005 c 446 § 1; 2002 c 142 § 1; 1999 c 372 § 4; 1997 c 274 § 1; 1995 1st sp.s. c 6 § 7; 1994 c 309 § 1; prior: 1993 c 492 § 215; 1993 c 386 § 6; 1990 c 222 § 3; 1988 c 107 § 4.]