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WA Rev Code § 43.371.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.010 - Definitions.

RCW 43.371.010 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Authority" means the health care authority.(2) "Carrier" and "health carrier" have the same meaning as in RCW 48.43.005.(3) "Claims data" means the data required by RCW 43.371.030 to be submitted to the database, including billed, allowed and paid amounts, and such additional information as defined by the director in rule.(4) "Data supplier" means: (a) A carrier, third-party administrator, or a public program identified in RCW 43.371.030 that provides claims data; and (b) a carrier or any other entity that provides claims data to the database at the request of an employer-sponsored self-funded health plan or Taft-Hartley trust health plan pursuant to RCW 43.371.030(1).(5) "Data vendor" means an entity contracted to perform data collection, processing, aggregation, extracts, analytics, and reporting.(6) "Database" means the statewide all-payer health care claims database established in RCW 43.371.020.(7) "Direct patient identifier" means a data variable that directly identifies an individual, including: Names; telephone numbers; fax numbers; social security number; medical record numbers; health plan beneficiary numbers; account numbers; certificate or license numbers; vehicle identifiers and serial numbers, including license plate numbers; device identifiers and serial numbers; web universal resource locators; internet protocol address numbers; biometric identifiers, including finger and voice prints; and full face photographic images and any comparable images.(8) "Director" means the director of the authority.(9) "Indirect patient identifier" means a data variable that may identify an individual when combined with other information.(10) "Lead organization" means the organization selected under RCW 43.371.020.(11) "Office" means the office of financial management.(12) "Proprietary financial information" means claims data or reports that disclose or would allow the determination of specific terms of contracts, discounts, or fixed reimbursement arrangements or other specific reimbursement arrangements between an individual health care facility or health care provider, as those terms are defined in RCW 48.43.005, and a specific payer, or internal fee schedule or other internal pricing mechanism of integrated delivery systems owned by a carrier.(13) "Unique identifier" means an obfuscated identifier assigned to an individual represented in the database to establish a basis for following the individual longitudinally throughout different payers and encounters in the data without revealing the individual's identity.[ 2019 c 319 § 2. Prior: 2015 c 246 § 1; 2014 c 223 § 8.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 319: See note following RCW 43.371.020.Finding—2014 c 223: See note following RCW 41.05.690.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.030 - Submission of claims data to database—Annual status report.

RCW 43.371.030 Submission of claims data to database—Annual status report.(1) The state medicaid program, public employees' benefits board programs, school employees' benefits board programs beginning July 1, 2020, all health carriers operating in this state, all third-party administrators paying claims on behalf of health plans in this state, and the state labor and industries program must submit claims data to the database within the time frames established by the director in rule and in accordance with procedures established by the lead organization. The director may expand this requirement by rule to include any health plans or health benefit plans defined in *RCW 48.43.005(26) (a) through (i) to accomplish the goals of this chapter set forth in RCW 43.371.020(1). Employer-sponsored self-funded health plans and Taft-Hartley trust health plans may voluntarily provide claims data to the database within the time frames and in accordance with procedures established by the lead organization.(2) Any data supplier used by an entity that voluntarily participates in the database must provide claims data to the data vendor upon request of the entity.(3) The lead organization shall submit an annual status report to the authority regarding compliance with this section.[ 2019 c 319 § 4; 2015 c 246 § 3; 2014 c 223 § 11.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 48.43.005 was alphabetized pursuant to RCW 1.08.015(2)(k), changing subsection (26) to subsection (27), and effective January 1, 2020, changing subsection (26) to subsection (29).Effective date—2019 c 319: See note following RCW 43.371.020.Finding—2014 c 223: See note following RCW 41.05.690.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.040 - Claims data and database—Exempt from public disclosure—Not subject to subpoena or compulsory process.

RCW 43.371.040 Claims data and database—Exempt from public disclosure—Not subject to subpoena or compulsory process.(1) The claims data provided to the database, the database itself, including the data compilation, and any raw data received from the database are not public records and are exempt from public disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW.(2) Claims data obtained, distributed, or reported in the course of activities undertaken pursuant to or supported under this chapter are not subject to subpoena or similar compulsory process in any civil or criminal, judicial, or administrative proceeding, nor may any individual or organization with lawful access to data under this chapter be compelled to provide such information pursuant to subpoena or testify with regard to such data, except that data pertaining to a party in litigation may be subject to subpoena or similar compulsory process in an action brought by or on behalf of such individual to enforce any liability arising under this chapter.[ 2015 c 246 § 4; 2014 c 223 § 12.]NOTES:Finding—2014 c 223: See note following RCW 41.05.690.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.070 - Rules.

RCW 43.371.070 Rules.(1) The director shall adopt any rules necessary to implement this chapter, including:(a) Definitions of claim and data files that data suppliers must submit to the database, including: Files for covered medical services, pharmacy claims, and dental claims; member eligibility and enrollment data; and provider data with necessary identifiers;(b) Deadlines for submission of claim files;(c) Penalties for failure to submit claim files as required;(d) Procedures for ensuring that all data received from data suppliers are securely collected and stored in compliance with state and federal law;(e) Procedures for ensuring compliance with state and federal privacy laws;(f) Procedures for establishing appropriate fees;(g) Procedures for data release;(h) Penalties associated with the inappropriate disclosures or uses of direct patient identifiers, indirect patient identifiers, and proprietary financial information; and(i) A minimum reporting threshold below which a data supplier is not required to submit data.(2) The director may not adopt rules, policies, or procedures beyond the authority granted in this chapter.[ 2019 c 319 § 7; 2015 c 246 § 7; 2014 c 223 § 15.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 319: See note following RCW 43.371.020.Finding—2014 c 223: See note following RCW 41.05.690.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.080 - Cost, performance, and effectiveness of database and performance of lead organization—Reports to the legislature.

RCW 43.371.080 Cost, performance, and effectiveness of database and performance of lead organization—Reports to the legislature.(1) The authority shall report every two years to the appropriate committees of the legislature regarding the cost, performance, and effectiveness of the database and the performance of the lead organization under its contract with the authority. Using independent economic expertise, subject to appropriation, the report must evaluate whether the database has advanced the goals set forth in RCW 43.371.020(1), as well as the performance of the lead organization. The report must also make recommendations regarding but not limited to how the database can be improved, whether the contract for the lead organization should be modified, renewed, or terminated, and the impact the database has had on competition between and among providers, purchasers, and payers.(2) The authority shall annually report to the appropriate committees of the legislature regarding any additional grants received or extended.[ 2019 c 319 § 8; 2015 c 246 § 8.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 319: See note following RCW 43.371.020.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.090 - State agency coordinating structure—Biennial review—Recommendations.

RCW 43.371.090 State agency coordinating structure—Biennial review—Recommendations.(1) To ensure the database is meeting the needs of state agencies and other data users, the authority shall convene a state agency coordinating structure, consisting of state agencies with related data needs and the Washington health benefit exchange to ensure effectiveness of the database and the agencies' programs. The coordinating structure must collaborate in a private/public manner with the lead organization and other partners key to the broader success of the database. The coordinating structure shall advise the authority and lead organization on the development of any database policies and rules relevant to agency data needs.(2) The office must participate as a key part of the coordinating structure and evaluate progress towards meeting the goals of the database, and, as necessary, recommend strategies for maintaining and promoting the progress of the database in meeting the intent of this section, and report its findings biennially to the governor and the legislature. The authority shall facilitate the office obtaining the information needed to complete the report in a manner that is efficient and not overly burdensome for the parties. The authority must provide the office with access to database processes, procedures, nonproprietary methodologies, and outcomes to conduct the review and issue the biennial report. The biennial review shall assess, at a minimum the following:(a) The list of approved agency use case projects and related data requirements under RCW 43.371.050(4);(b) Successful and unsuccessful data requests and outcomes related to agency and nonagency health researchers pursuant to RCW 43.371.050(4);(c) Online data portal access and effectiveness related to research requests and data provider review and reconsideration;(d) Adequacy of data security and policy consistent with the policy of the office of the chief information officer; and(e) Timeliness, adequacy, and responsiveness of the database with regard to requests made under RCW 43.371.050(4) and for potential improvements in data sharing, data processing, and communication.(3) To promote the goal of improving health outcomes through better cost and quality information, the authority, in consultation with the agency coordinating structure, the office, lead organization, and data vendor shall make recommendations to the Washington state performance measurement coordinating committee as necessary to improve the effectiveness of the state common measure set as adopted under RCW 70.320.030.[ 2019 c 319 § 9.]NOTES:Effective date—2019 c 319: See note following RCW 43.371.020.
WA Rev Code § 43.371.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.371 - Statewide Health Care Claims Data.|43.371.100 - Development of data set and business process to assist in determining commercially reasonable payment amounts and resolving out-of-network payment disputes for medical services covered under the balance billing protection act.

RCW 43.371.100 Development of data set and business process to assist in determining commercially reasonable payment amounts and resolving out-of-network payment disputes for medical services covered under the balance billing protection act.(1) The office of the insurance commissioner shall contract with the state agency responsible for administration of the database and the lead organization to establish a data set and business process to provide health carriers, health care providers, hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, and arbitrators with data to assist in determining commercially reasonable payments and resolving payment disputes for out-of-network medical services rendered by health care facilities or providers.(a) The data set and business process must be developed in collaboration with health carriers, health care providers, hospitals, and ambulatory surgical facilities.(b) The data set must provide the amounts for the services described in RCW 48.49.020. The data used to calculate the median in-network and out-of-network allowed amounts and the median billed charge amounts by geographic area, for the same or similar services, must be drawn from commercial health plan claims, and exclude medicare and medicaid claims as well as claims paid on other than a fee-for-service basis.(c) The data set and business process must be available beginning November 1, 2019, and must be reviewed by an advisory committee established under chapter 43.371 RCW that includes representatives of health carriers, health care providers, hospitals, and ambulatory surgical facilities for validation before use.(2) The 2019 data set must be based upon the most recently available full calendar year of claims data. The data set for each subsequent year must be adjusted by applying the consumer price index-medical component established by the United States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics to the previous year's data set.[ 2019 c 427 § 26.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Effective date—2019 c 427: See RCW 48.49.003 and 48.49.900.
WA Rev Code § 43.372.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.372 - Marine Waters Planning and Management.|43.372.010 - Definitions.

RCW 43.372.010 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Aquatic lands" includes all tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, and the beds of navigable waters, and must be construed to be coextensive with the term "aquatic lands" as defined in RCW 79.105.060.(2) "Exclusive economic zone waters" means marine waters from the offshore state boundary to the boundary of the exclusive economic zone, over which the United States government has primary jurisdiction.(3) "Marine counties" includes Clallam, Jefferson, Grays Harbor, Wahkiakum, San Juan, Whatcom, Skagit, Island, Snohomish, King, Pierce, Thurston, Mason, Kitsap, and Pacific counties.(4) "Marine ecosystem" means the physical, biological, and chemical components and processes and their interactions in marine waters and aquatic lands, including humans.(5) "Marine interagency team" or "team" means the marine interagency team created under RCW 43.372.020.(6) "Marine management plan" and "marine waters management plan" means any plan guiding activities on and uses of the state's marine waters, and may include a marine spatial plan or element.(7) "Marine resources committees" means those committees organized under RCW 36.125.020 or by counties within the Northwest straits marine conservation initiative.(8) "Marine spatial planning" means a public process of analyzing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic, and social objectives. Often this type of planning is done to reduce conflicts among uses, to reduce environmental impacts, to facilitate compatible uses, to align management decisions, and to meet other objectives determined by the planning process.(9) "Marine waters" means aquatic lands and waters under tidal influence, including salt waters and estuaries to the ordinary high water mark lying within the boundaries of the state. This definition also includes the portion of the Columbia river bordering Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the entire Puget Sound.[ 2010 c 145 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 43.372.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.372 - Marine Waters Planning and Management.|43.372.020 - Marine interagency team.

RCW 43.372.020 Marine interagency team.(1) The office of the governor shall chair a marine interagency team that is composed of representatives of each of the agencies in the governor's natural resources cabinet with management responsibilities for marine waters, including the independent agencies. A representative from a federal agency with lead responsibility for marine spatial planning must be invited to serve as a liaison to the team to help ensure consistency with federal actions and policy. The team must assist state agencies under RCW 43.372.030 with the review and coordination of such planning with their existing and ongoing planning and conduct the marine management planning authorized in RCW 43.372.040.(2) The team may not commence any activities authorized under RCW 43.372.030 and 43.372.040 until federal, private, or other funding is secured specifically for these activities.[ 2012 c 252 § 1; 2010 c 145 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 43.372.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.372 - Marine Waters Planning and Management.|43.372.030 - Marine spatial data and marine spatial planning elements—Inclusion in planning—Joint plans and planning frameworks—Integration with comprehensive marine management plan.

RCW 43.372.030 Marine spatial data and marine spatial planning elements—Inclusion in planning—Joint plans and planning frameworks—Integration with comprehensive marine management plan.(1) Subject to available federal, private, or other funding for this purpose, all state agencies with marine waters planning and management responsibilities are authorized to include marine spatial data and marine spatial planning elements into their existing plans and ongoing planning.(2) The director of the Puget Sound partnership under the direction of the leadership council created in RCW 90.71.220 must integrate marine spatial information and planning provisions into the action agenda. The information should be used to address gaps or improve the effectiveness of the spatial planning component of the action agenda, such as in addressing potential new uses such as renewable energy projects.(3) The governor and the commissioner of public lands, working with appropriate marine management and planning agencies, should work cooperatively with the applicable west coast states, Canadian provinces, and with federal agencies, through existing cooperative entities such as the west coast governor's agreement on ocean health, the coastal and oceans task force, the Pacific coast collaborative, the Puget Sound federal caucus, and the United States and Canada cooperative agreement working group, to explore the benefits of developing joint marine spatial plans or planning frameworks in the shared waters of the Salish Sea, the Columbia river estuary, and in the exclusive economic zone waters. The governor and commissioner may approve the adoption of shared marine spatial plans or planning frameworks where they determine it would further policies of this chapter and chapter 43.143 RCW.(4) On an ongoing basis, the director of the department of ecology shall work with other state agencies with marine management responsibilities, tribal governments, marine resources committees, local and federal agencies, and marine waters stakeholders to compile marine spatial information and to incorporate this information into ongoing plans. This work may be integrated with the comprehensive marine management plan authorized under RCW 43.372.040 when that planning process is initiated.(5) All actions taken to implement this section must be consistent with RCW 43.372.060.[ 2012 c 252 § 2; 2010 c 145 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 43.372.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.372 - Marine Waters Planning and Management.|43.372.050 - Marine management plans—Compliance—Consistency—Review—Report and recommendations.

RCW 43.372.050 Marine management plans—Compliance—Consistency—Review—Report and recommendations.(1) Upon the adoption of the marine management plan under RCW 43.372.040, each state agency and local government must make decisions in a manner that ensures consistency with applicable legal authorities and conformance with the applicable provisions of the marine management plan to the greatest extent possible.(2) The director of the department of ecology, in coordination with the team, shall periodically review existing management plans maintained by state agencies and local governments that cover the same marine waters as the marine management plan under RCW 43.372.040, and for any substantial inconsistency with the marine management plan the director shall make recommendations to the agency or to the local government for revisions to eliminate the inconsistency.(3) Not later than four years following adoption of the marine management plan under RCW 43.372.040, the department of ecology, in coordination with the team, shall report to the appropriate marine waters committees in the senate and house of representatives describing provisions of existing management plans that are substantially inconsistent with the marine management plan under RCW 43.372.040, and making recommendations for eliminating the inconsistency.(4) All actions taken to implement this section must be consistent with RCW 43.372.060.[ 2010 c 145 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 43.372.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.372 - Marine Waters Planning and Management.|43.372.060 - Authority limited.

RCW 43.372.060 Authority limited.No authority is created under this chapter to affect in any way any project, use, or activity in the state's marine waters existing prior to or during the development and review of the marine management plan. No authority is created under this chapter to supersede the current authority of any state agency or local government.[ 2010 c 145 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 43.376.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.376 - Government-to-Government Relationship With Indian Tribes.|43.376.010 - Definitions.

RCW 43.376.010 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Indian tribe" means any federally recognized Indian tribe whose traditional lands and territories included parts of Washington.(2) "State agency" means an agency, department, office, or the office of a statewide elected official, of the state of Washington.[ 2012 c 122 § 1.]