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Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-455 - Hospital patient discharge information reporting › Section 246-455-400 - Patient discharge data use agreements

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(1) All written data use agreements with the
				department for the release of patient discharge data must comply with the
				requirements of
				RCW
				 43.70.052 and this section.
(2) A data use agreement with the department
				is required for the following:
(a) Government
				agencies requesting data that contains direct patient identifiers for
				nonresearch purposes; and
(b)
				Individuals or entities requesting data that contains only indirect patient
				identifiers.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-455 - Hospital patient discharge information reporting › Section 246-455-500 - Data file production

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(1) The
				department retains the discretion to determine what form or format is most
				appropriate to provide to a particular requestor. Where the department provides
				data files on a routine schedule, the department may automate file production.
				The department may manually produce data files when deemed appropriate. Nothing
				in this chapter should be deemed to entitle any requestor to receive data in a
				particular form or format, and nothing in this chapter should be deemed to
				require the department to produce the data in a particular form or
				format.
(2) Where the department
				provides data files on a routine schedule, the department may allow a requestor
				to update their original data request with the department. If the department
				permits a requestor to update their data request, the requestor must pay the
				fee required by WAC 246-455-990(4).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-455 - Hospital patient discharge information reporting › Section 246-455-990 - Data file fees

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(1) The department
				may not charge a fee for state officials and agencies receiving data funded
				through the state general appropriation.
(2) The department shall collect
				nonrefundable fees as follows:
(a) One hundred
				ten dollars per standard data file;
(b) Fifty dollars per standard data file for
				students with proof of valid student status; and
(c) One hundred ten dollars per custom data
				file.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-001 - Purpose

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These rules implement the prescription monitoring program,
				  established by the legislature in chapter 70.225 RCW, as a means to promote the
				  public health, safety, and welfare and to detect and prevent prescription drug
				  abuse.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-001, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-010 - Definitions

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The definitions in this section apply throughout this
				  chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Authentication" means information,
				electronic device, or certificate provided by the department or their designee
				to a data requestor to electronically access prescription monitoring
				information. The authentication may include, but is not limited to, a user
				name, password, or an identification electronic device or
				certificate.
(2) "Controlled
				substance" has the same meaning provided in
				RCW
				 69.50.101.
(3)"Department" means the department of
				health.
(4) "Dispenser" means a
				practitioner or pharmacy that delivers to the ultimate user a schedule II, III,
				IV, or V controlled substance or other drugs identified by the pharmacy quality
				assurance commission in WAC
				246-470-020,
				but does not include:
(a) A practitioner or
				other authorized person who only administers, as defined in
				RCW
				 69.41.010, a controlled substance or other
				drugs identified by the pharmacy quality assurance commission in WAC
				246-470-020;
(b) A licensed wholesale distributor or
				manufacturer, as defined in chapter 18.64 RCW, of a controlled substance or
				other drugs identified by the pharmacy quality assurance commission in WAC
				246-470-020;
				or
(c) A veterinarian licensed
				under chapter 18.92 RCW. Data submission requirements for veterinarians are
				included in WAC
				246-470-035.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-020 - Adding additional drugs to the program

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Pursuant to
				  RCW
				   70.225.020, the pharmacy quality assurance
				  commission may add additional drugs to the list of drugs being monitored by the
				  program by requesting the department amend these rules.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-020, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-030 - Data submission requirements for dispensers

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(1) A dispenser shall provide to the
				department the dispensing information required by
				RCW
				 70.225.020 and this section for all scheduled
				II, III, IV, and V controlled substances and for drugs identified by the
				pharmacy quality assurance commission under WAC 246-470020. Only drugs
				dispensed for more than one day use must be reported.
(2) Dispenser identification number. A
				dispenser shall acquire and maintain an identification number issued to
				dispensing pharmacies by the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs or
				a prescriber identifier issued to authorized prescribers of controlled
				substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of
				Justice.
(3) Submitting data. A
				dispenser shall submit data to the department electronically, as soon as
				readily available, but no later than one business day from the date of
				dispensing, and in the format required by the department. When the dispenser
				has not dispensed any drugs during a business day which require reporting, then
				within seven days the dispenser shall report that no drugs requiring reporting
				were dispensed. The notification shall be in a format established by the
				department.
(a) A dispenser shall submit for
				each dispensing the following information and any additional information
				required by the department:
(i) Patient
				identifier. A patient identifier is the unique identifier assigned to a
				particular patient by the dispenser;
(ii) Name of the patient for whom the
				prescription is ordered including first name, middle initial, last name, and
				generational suffixes, if any;
(iii) Patient date of birth;
(iv) Patient address;
(v) Patient gender and species
				code;
(vi) Drug
				dispensed;
(vii) Date of
				dispensing;
(viii) Quantity and
				days supply dispensed;
(ix) Refill
				and partial fill information;
(x)
				Prescriber identifiers including the National Provider Identifier and the Drug
				Enforcement Administration number including any suffix used;
(xi) Prescription issued date;
(xii) Dispenser identifiers including the
				Drug Enforcement Administration number and the National Provider
				Identifier;
(xiii) Prescription
				fill date and number;
(xiv) Source
				of payment indicated by one of the following:
(A) Private pay (cash, change, credit card,
				check);
(B) Medicaid;
(C) Medicare;
(D) Commercial insurance;
(E) Military installations and veterans
				affairs;
(F) Workers
				compensation;
(G) Indian
				nations;
(H) Other;
(xv) When practicable, the name of
				the person picking up or dropping off the prescription as verified by valid
				photographic identification; and
(xvi) The prescriber's and dispenser's
				business phone numbers.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-035 - Dispensing and data submission requirements for veterinarians

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A veterinarian licensed under
				  chapter
				  18.92 RCW shall provide to
				  the department the dispensing information required by
				  RCW
				   70.225.020 and as provided in this section
				  for all schedule II, III, IV and V controlled substances and for drugs
				  identified by the pharmacy quality assurance commission under WAC
				  246-470-020.
(1) Dispenser identification number. A
				veterinarian shall acquire and maintain a prescriber identifier issued to
				authorized prescribers of controlled substances by the Drug Enforcement
				Administration, United States Department of Justice.
(2) Submitting data. A veterinarian shall:
(a) Report data for schedule II, III, IV, and
				V controlled substances, and other required drugs identified by the pharmacy
				quality assurance commission under WAC
				246-470-020, dispensed for more
				than a fourteen-day supply;
(b)
				Report data using either electronic or nonelectronic methods provided by the
				department;
(c) Submit data
				quarterly. Data must be reported on the following schedule:
Reporting Period
Report Due Date
January - March
April 10
April - June
July 10
July - September
October 10
October - December
January 10
(d)
				Report the following data elements to the department for each schedule II, III,
				IV, and V controlled substance and other required drugs dispensed for more than
				a fourteen-day supply :
(i) Name of the animal
				for whom the drug is dispensed including name of the animal or the animal's
				species (example: Feline) and the owner's last name;
(ii) Animal's date of birth, or if date of
				birth is unknown, enter January 1st of the estimated birth year;
(iii) Owner's name including first name,
				middle initial, last name, and generational suffixes, if any;
(iv) Owner's address;
(v) Drug dispensed;
(vi) Date the drug was dispensed;
(vii) Quantity and days supply
				dispensed;
(viii) Prescriber
				identifier;
(ix) Dispenser
				identifier; and
(x) When
				practicable, the identification number from a valid photo identification card
				of the owner.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-037 - Waiver for integrating electronic health record system with the prescription monitoring program

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(1) A facility,
				entity, office, or provider group that is subject to the prescription
				monitoring program integration mandate requirement in
				RCW
				 70.225.090(2)(a), and is
				experiencing an economic hardship, technological limitation, or other
				exceptional circumstances as stated in RCW 70.225.-090 (2)(b), may submit an
				attestation to the department for a waiver from the integration mandate. The
				attestation must be submitted on forms provided by the department. The waiver
				is deemed granted upon submission.
(2) A facility, entity, office, or provider
				group that has been granted a waiver from the mandate in
				RCW
				 70.225.090(2)(a) shall be
				exempt from the prescription monitoring program integration mandate for the
				calendar year in which the attestation is received by the department beginning
				with the effective date of this section.
(a)
				For economic hardship and technical limitation, a facility, entity, office, or
				provider group may submit up to three annual attestations, giving the facility,
				entity, office, or provider group up to three years to integrate its electronic
				health record with the prescription monitoring program.
(b) There is no limit on the number of other
				exceptional circumstance waivers under subsection (3)(c) of this section that a
				facility, entity, office, or provider group may submit.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-040 - Patient access to information from the program

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A patient or a patient's personal representative may obtain
				  a report listing all prescription monitoring information that pertains to the
				  patient.
(1) Procedure for obtaining
				information. A patient or a patient's personal representative requesting
				information pursuant to this section shall submit a written request in person
				at the department, or at any other place specified by the department. The
				written request must be in a format established by the department.
(2) Identification required. The patient or
				the patient's personal representative must provide valid photographic
				identification prior to obtaining access to the information requested in this
				section.
(3) Proof of personal
				representation. Before obtaining access to the information pursuant to this
				section, a personal representative shall provide either:
(a) An official attested copy of the judicial
				order granting them authority to gain access to the health care records of the
				patient;
(b) In the case of parents
				or legal guardian(s) of a minor child, a certified copy of the birth
				certificate of the minor child or other certified legal documents establishing
				parentage or guardianship; or
(c)
				In the case of persons holding power of attorney, the original document
				establishing the power of attorney.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-050 - Local health officer, pharmacist, prescriber or other health care practitioner and medical test site access to information from the program

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(1) Access.
(a) The local health officer or a licensed
				health care practitioner authorized by the local health officer may obtain
				prescription monitoring information for the purposes of patient follow-up and
				care coordination following a controlled substance overdose event.
(b) A pharmacist, prescriber, or licensed
				health care practitioner authorized by a prescriber or pharmacist may obtain
				prescription monitoring information relating to their patients, for the purpose
				of providing medical or pharmaceutical care.
(c) A qualifying medical test site may have
				access to prescription monitoring information for the purpose of providing
				assistance to a prescriber or dispenser for determining medications an
				identified patient, in the care of the prescriber or dispenser, is
				taking.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-052 - Facility and provider group access to information from the program

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(1) Access.
(a) A health care facility or entity may have
				access to prescription monitoring information for the purpose of providing
				medical or pharmaceutical care to the patients of the facility or entity or for
				quality improvement purposes, provided that the facility or entity is licensed
				by the department, operated by the federal government, or a federally
				recognized Indian tribe.
(b) A
				health care provider group of five or more prescribers may have access to
				prescription monitoring information for the purpose of providing medical or
				pharmaceutical care to the patients, or for quality improvement purposes,
				provided that all prescribers in the provider group are licensed by the
				department, the provider group is operated by the federal government or a
				federally recognized Indian tribe.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-053 - The coordinated care electronic tracking program access to information from the program

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(1) Access. The
				coordinated care electronic tracking program may have access to data for the
				purposes of:
(a) Providing program data to
				emergency department personnel when the patient registers in the emergency
				department; and
(b) Providing
				notice to the patient's providers, appropriate care coordination staff, and
				prescribers listed in the patient's prescription monitoring program record when
				the patient has experienced a controlled substance overdose event.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-054 - Facility, entity, and provider group access to prescriber information

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(1) Access.
				Facilities, entities, and provider groups which have elected to receive
				information as identified in WAC
				246-470-052
				shall receive quarterly reports from the department with facility or entity and
				individual prescriber information for quality improvement purposes of the
				facility, entity, or provider group.
(2) Requesting a report. The facility,
				entity, or provider group shall submit a request for each quarterly report
				using a format established by the department and containing the names and
				credentials of the providers they employ.
(3) Verification. The department will
				establish a process for verifying the point of contact at each facility, entity
				or provider group who will receive the report.
(4) Providing a report. The department will
				establish a secure method for delivering the report to the facility, entity or
				provider group.
(5) All requests
				for, uses of, and disclosures of prescription monitoring information by
				authorized persons must be consistent with the mandate as outlined in
				RCW
				 70.225.040 and this chapter.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-070 - Other prescription monitoring program's access to information from the program

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Established prescription monitoring programs may obtain
				  prescription monitoring information for requests from within their jurisdiction
				  that do not violate the provisions of this chapter or chapter 70.225
				  RCW.
(1) The other prescription
				monitoring program must provide substantially similar protections for patient
				information as the protections provided in chapter 70.225 RCW.
(2) The department may share information with
				other prescription monitoring programs qualified under this section through a
				clearinghouse or prescription monitoring program information exchange that
				meets federal health care information privacy requirements.
(3) All requests for, uses of, and
				disclosures of prescription monitoring information by authorized persons must
				be consistent with the program's mandate as outlined in
				RCW
				 70.225.040 and this chapter.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-070, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-080 - Access by public or private research entities to information from the program

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(1) The department
				may provide prescription monitoring information in a format established by the
				department to any public or private entity for statistical, research, or
				educational purposes.
(2) Before
				the department releases any requested information, the department shall remove
				information that could be used to identify individual patients, dispensers,
				prescribers, and persons who received prescriptions from dispensers.
(3) To obtain information from the program a
				public or private entity shall submit a request in a format established by the
				department.
(4) All requests for,
				uses of, and disclosures of prescription monitoring information by the
				requesting entity must be consistent with the program's mandate as outlined in
				RCW
				 70.225.040 and this chapter.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-080, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-082 - Access by the Washington state hospital association to information from the program

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(1) The department
				may provide dispenser and prescriber data that includes indirect patient
				identifiers to the Washington state hospital association's coordinated quality
				improvement program (CQIP).
(2)
				Before providing data to the association's CQIP the department will enter into
				a data use agreement that outlines the following:
(a) The data fields that will be
				provided;
(b) The security methods
				used to protect and transmit the data;
(c) Any allowed redisclosure of the data
				provided to the CQIP must be consistent with the purpose of the data use
				agreement; and
(d) How indirect
				patient identifiers will be protected from any attempts to reidentify the
				patient or their family.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-090 - Confidentiality

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Under
				  RCW
				   70.225.040, prescription monitoring
				  information is confidential, and maintained in compliance with
				  chapter
				  70.02 RCW and federal
				  health care information privacy requirements. Prescription monitoring
				  information that has been disclosed to a health care provider under the
				  provisions of
				  RCW
				   70.225.040 is health care information under
				  chapter
				  70.02 RCW and federal
				  privacy laws. Health care providers may retain prescription monitoring
				  information with the patient's health care records which are protected by state
				  and federal law.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-090, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-470 - Prescription monitoring program › Section 246-470-100 - Penalties and sanctions

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In addition to the penalties described in
				  RCW
				   70.225.060, if the department determines a
				  person has intentionally or knowingly used or disclosed prescription monitoring
				  information in violation of chapter 70.225 RCW, the department may take action
				  including, but not limited to:
(1)
				Terminating access to the program;
(2) Filing a complaint with appropriate
				health profession regulatory entities; or
(3) Reporting the violation to law
				enforcement.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.225 RCW and 2007 c 259.
					 11-16-041, § 246-470-100, filed 7/27/11, effective
					 8/27/11.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-030 - Identification of covered manufacturers

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(1)
				Upon review of an inquiry response letter described in
				RCW
				 69.48.040(3), the department
				shall notify the person or entity in writing whether or not the person or
				entity is considered a covered manufacturer. If the department determines that
				the person or entity is a covered manufacturer, the written notice will include
				a warning regarding the penalties for violation of this chapter, as authorized
				in
				RCW
				 69.48.110(2).
(2)
(a)
				Within thirty days after the first full year of a drug take-back program's
				implementation, and annually thereafter, the department may provide a list of
				covered manufacturers potentially not participating in a drug take-back program
				to each approved program operator.
(b) Within thirty days of receiving such a
				list, approved program operators may provide any comments on the list to the
				department.
(c) Within thirty days
				of receiving and considering any approved program operator comments, the
				department may publish on its web site a list of all covered manufacturers not
				participating in a drug take-back program.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-040 - Drug take-back program proposal components

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In addition to this section, the drug take-back proposal must
				  comply with chapter 69.48 RCW. Each proposal must be on a form provided by the
				  department and must:
(1) Contain a
				table of contents clearly denoting, at a minimum, where each component
				specified in
				RCW
				 69.48.050 is located within the program
				proposal;
(2) Provide a description
				of a drug collection system that includes:
(a) A list of participating authorized
				collectors;
(b) A list of drop-off
				(kiosk) locations; and
(c) A
				detailed description of how mail-back distribution locations or periodic
				collection events will be used.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-050 - Program application

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(1) A potential
				drug take-back program operator shall submit to the department:
(a) Its proposal to be an approved program in
				the format provided by the department; and
(b) The proposal review fee in WAC
				246-480-990.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-060 - Collection of covered drugs-Underserved areas

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(1) To assist the program operators in
				complying with
				RCW  69.48.060(3)(c)
				and (d), the department will determine and
				locate each population center consistent with
				RCW
				 69.48.060 and this chapter using geographical
				information systems (GIS) mapping technology, and will publish updated
				population data to the department's web site annually.
(2) The department, in consultation with the
				local health jurisdiction, will determine underserved areas described in
				RCW
				 69.48.060(3) using the
				following criteria:
(a) Population density of
				counties;
(b) Estimated number of
				participating collection sites;
(c)
				Travel distances and times;
(d)
				Accessible public facilities such as libraries, town halls, and police and fire
				departments; and
(e) Geographic
				features that may inhibit access to collection locations such as mountains and
				islands.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-070 - Promotion, education, and public outreach

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(1)
				Program operators shall coordinate to present a consistent statewide drug
				take-back system as described in RCW   69.48.050 and 69.48.070.
(2) Each program operator is independently
				responsible for complying with all requirements of chapter 69.48 RCW and this
				chapter. Each program operator is responsible for their own promotional
				material.
(3) Collection sites at
				long-term care facilities and substance use disorder treatment programs are not
				available to the general public. Program operators shall exclude these
				collection sites from public promotional material.
(4) For the purpose of this section:
(a) "Promotional material" means promotion,
				education, and outreach material about the safe storage and secure collection
				of covered drugs and includes, but is not limited to: Websites; telephone
				numbers; secure collection receptacle (kiosk) signage; posters; brochures;
				mailer instructional inserts; advertising for drug take-back events; media
				material; and information for authorized collectors, collection sites,
				mail-back distribution locations, and take-back event partners.
(b) Public promotional material means
				promotional material focused on increasing understanding and use of safe
				medication return.
(c) Partner
				promotional material means promotional material focused on recruiting and
				educating authorized collectors, collection sites, mail-back distribution
				locations, and take-back event partners.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-090 - Proprietary information

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(1) Consistent
				with
				RCW
				 69.48.170, chapter 42.56 RCW, and other
				applicable laws, proprietary information submitted to the department under
				chapter 69.48 RCW is exempt from public disclosure. The manufacturer or drug
				take-back organization must identify in writing the information it considers
				proprietary when submitting information to the department. Information
				automatically disclosable under law may not be marked proprietary. Information
				not deemed automatically disclosable cannot be marked as proprietary in their
				entirety.
(2) If the department
				receives a request for disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW which includes
				information identified by the manufacturer or drug take-back organization as
				proprietary, the department will notify the manufacturer or drug take-back
				organization of the status of such documents prior to their release. The
				manufacturer or drug take-back organization may seek to enjoin the release of
				the information as provided under
				RCW
				 42.56.540
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-480 - Drug take-back program › Section 246-480-990 - Fees

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(1) Until January 1, 2024, a potential
				program operator applicant submitting a proposal in accordance with RCW
				  69.48.050(8) shall submit a nonrefundable proposal review fee of $157,000 to
				the department when they submit their proposal.
(2) After January 1, 2024, a potential
				program operator applicant shall submit a nonrefundable proposal review fee of
				$63,000 to the department when they submit their proposal in accordance with
				RCW   69.48.050(1). Approved program operators submitting updated proposals to
				the department do not submit a proposal review fee.
(3) All program operators' annual operating
				fees shall be identical. Each program operator's annual operating fee shall not
				exceed the lesser of:
(a) The department's
				estimated actual administrative, oversight, enforcement, and contractual costs
				for that fiscal year divided by the number of approved program operators;
				or
(b) Ten percent of the lowest
				annual expenditures reported to the department in any program operator's annual
				report and determined by the department.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › Section 246-490-010 - Definitions

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(1) "Department"
				means the department of health.
(2)
				"Human research review board" is a standing institutional review board
				operating under state law, chapter 42.48 RCW.
(3) "Confidential portion of the birth and
				fetal death certificates" means pertinent information relative to the birth and
				manner of delivery as specified in WAC
				246-491-029.
(4) "Local registrar and their deputies" are
				those local officials operating under the direction and control of the state
				registrar. The health officer within each local health jurisdiction is the
				local registrar in and for the primary registration district under his or her
				supervision. His or her designees are deputy registrars.
(5) "Personal identifiers" are names,
				addresses, Social Security numbers and any other information that reveals or
				can likely be associated with the identity of the person or persons to whom the
				record pertains.
(6) "Research"
				means a planned and systematic sociological, psychological, epidemiological,
				biomedical, or other scientific investigation with an objective to contribute
				to scientific knowledge, the solution of social and health problems, or the
				evaluation of public benefit, health care delivery or medical or social service
				programs.
(7) "Scientific merit"
				describes a research project or statistical study that is based on methods of
				data collection or analysis that are objective, can be replicated, and are
				designed to yield reliable and valid results.
(8) "State registrar" is the department of
				health official charged with the execution of the provisions of
				chapter
				70.58 RCW.
(9) "Statistical study" means any project
				consisting of or based on assembling, classifying, and/or tabulating numerical
				data to present significant information about a given subject.
(10) "Vital records" means records of birth,
				death, fetal death, marriage, dissolution, annulment, and legal separation,
				maintained under the supervision of the state registrar of vital
				statistics.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 70.58.104 and
					 70.58.082. 00-11-169, §
					 246-490-010, filed 5/24/00, effective
					 6/24/00.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › VITAL RECORDS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES OR STATISTICAL STUDY › Section 246-490-020 - Requesting vital records information without personal identifiers

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(1) If you request
				  vital records information without personal identifiers for research purposes or
				  statistical study or if the state registrar determines that your research or
				  statistical study does not require the use of personal identifiers, you will
				  receive the vital records information in a format specified by the
				  department.
(2) You may be required
				  to sign an agreement requiring you to:
(a) Not
				  release the vital records data files or listings to any third party without
				  prior written approval of the state registrar; and
(b) Pay for charges based on actual costs
				  associated with the preparation of the data files or analyses required to
				  fulfill your request.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › VITAL RECORDS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES OR STATISTICAL STUDY › Section 246-490-029 - Father and/or mother may change given name

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The father and/or mother of any child whose birth has been
					 registered may, during the minority of said child, change the given name of the
					 child on the record by filing an affidavit of change with the state
					 registrar.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040 and
						43.70.150. 92-02-018 (Order 224),
						§ 246-490-029, filed 12/23/91, effective 1/23/92. Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040. 91-02-049 (Order 121), recodified
						as § 246-490-029, filed 12/27/90, effective 1/31/91; Regulation .40.020,
						effective 3/11/60.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › VITAL RECORDS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES OR STATISTICAL STUDY › Section 246-490-030 - Requesting a listing or file of vital records with personal identifiers

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(1) If you request
				  access to vital records with personal identifiers for research purposes or
				  statistical study, you shall be required to submit a letter of request to the
				  state registrar stating:
(a) The purpose of
				  the research;
(b) Research study
				  design and analysis plan;
(c) The
				  means for ensuring the confidentiality and security of the records;
(d) The time frame and geographic area of
				  interest;
(e) The variable(s)
				  needed; and
(f) The preferred time
				  frame for receiving the information.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › VITAL RECORDS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES OR STATISTICAL STUDY › Section 246-490-039 - Certificates in pencil not allowed

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All certificates of birth or death shall either be made out
					 legibly with unfading ink or typewritten through a good grade of typewriter
					 ribbon, and shall be signed in either case in ink. No certificate made in
					 pencil shall be accepted by a registrar as a permanent record of birth or
					 death.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040 and
						43.70.150. 92-02-018 (Order 224),
						§ 246-490-039, filed 12/23/91, effective 1/23/92. Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040. 91-02-049 (Order 121), recodified
						as § 246-490-039, filed 12/27/90, effective 1/31/91; Regulation .40.030,
						effective 3/11/60.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-055

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Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						 70.58.104 and
						70.58.082. 00-11-169, §
						246-490-055, filed 5/24/00, effective
						6/24/00.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-065

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Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						 70.58.104 and
						70.58.082. 00-11-169, §
						246-490-065, filed 5/24/00, effective
						6/24/00.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-069 - Birth certificate to be filed for foundling child

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When an infant is found for whom no known certificate of
					 birth is on file and for whom no other identification is known, the finder
					 shall notify the police authorities having jurisdiction within the area of
					 finding.
The police authorities, within 48 hours, shall have the
					 local health officer determine or cause to be determined the approximate date
					 of birth of the child.
The health officer, within 72 hours of notification shall
					 complete a certificate of live birth on a standard Washington certificate of
					 live birth form designating the place of finding as the place of birth and
					 place of residence, the approximate date of birth, sex, and assign a given
					 name. He shall write across the face of the certificate in the sections
					 provided for parental information the words, "foundling child," sign, and date
					 the certificate and cause the same to be filed with the local registrar of the
					 area in which the finding occurred.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040. 91-02-049 (Order 121), recodified
						as § 246-490-069, filed 12/27/90, effective 1/31/91; Regulation .40.080,
						effective 3/11/60.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-070 - Fraudulently registered or changed birth certificates

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(1) If the state registrar receives
				  information that a birth certificate may have been registered or amended
				  through fraud or misrepresentation, neither the state registrar nor local
				  deputy registrars will release copies of that certificate until an informal
				  administrative hearing is held.
(2)
				  The department will notify the registrant or authorized representative, and he
				  or she will have the opportunity to be heard at the hearing.
(a) If the state registrar finds that there
				  was no fraud or misrepresentation, the record will be made available for
				  inspection and copying.
(b) If the
				  state registrar finds that the record was used fraudulently or was
				  misrepresented, the registrar will tag the fraudulent birth certificate in the
				  data base. The record and evidence will be retained, but will not be released
				  or subject to inspection unless:
(i) A court
				  of competent jurisdiction orders the release or inspection of the record;
				  or
(ii) The state registrar
				  utilizes the record for purposes of administering the vital statistics
				  program.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-075 - Changing sex designation on a birth certificate

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(1) For the purposes of this section:
(a) "Adult" means a person who is at least
				  eighteen years of age, or is an emancipated minor under chapter 13.64
				  RCW.
(b) "Minor" means a person
				  under the age of eighteen years of age, but not an emancipated minor under
				  chapter 13.64 RCW.
(c) "X" means a
				  gender that is not exclusively male or female, including, but not limited to,
				  intersex, agender, amal-gagender, androgynous, bigender, demigender,
				  female-to-male, genderfluid, genderqueer, male-to-female, neutrois, nonbinary,
				  pangender, third sex, transgender, transsexual, Two Spirit, and
				  unspecified.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-080 - Delayed birth certificate-Requesting registration

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(1) An interested person may request
				  registration of a live birth that occurred in Washington state when no birth
				  record is found on file with the department.
(2)Interested person means:
(a)A person registering his or her own birth
				  if age eighteen or older; or
(b)The
				  parent(s) or guardian(s) if the person who is the subject of the delayed birth
				  certificate is under age eighteen.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-081 - Delayed birth certificate-Documentary evidence required

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(1) If the person
				  is under age twelve, the facts concerning date of birth, place and parentage of
				  birth must be established by at least two pieces of documentary evidence, only
				  one of which may be a sworn statement; or
(2)If the person is age twelve and over, the
				  facts concerning date of birth and place must be established by at least three
				  pieces of documentary evidence, only one of which may be a sworn statement. One
				  piece of documentary evidence must establish parentage.
(3)Documentary evidence for establishing
				  parentage is required for both parents if more than one parent is to be listed
				  on the request. If the parents were not married at the time of birth or during
				  the pregnancy and the person is under age eighteen, a paternity acknowledgment
				  or court order is required to include the second parent on the delayed birth
				  certificate.
(4) The documentary
				  evidence must be from independent sources and must have been established prior
				  to the person's fourth birthday or be at least five years old, or based on
				  records established at least five years prior to the date of the
				  request.
(5)Documentary evidence
				  may include, but is not limited to, the following:
(a)Military records;
(b)Numident report, which is a Social
				  Security Administration report of information from the original application for
				  Social Security card;
(c)Hospital
				  or medical records;
(d)Federal
				  census records;
(e)School
				  enrollment records;
(f)Newspaper
				  notice of birth with the date published and name of paper on the same
				  page;
(g) Voter registration
				  application that includes name, date, and place of birth;
(h) A sworn statement as defined in
				  subsection (6) of this section;
(i)
				  A combination of documents deemed adequate by the state registrar for
				  establishing the facts concerning the birth.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-082 - Delayed birth certificate-Verification and registration

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(1) The state
				  registrar may verify the authenticity and accuracy of documentary evidence
				  provided by the requestor.
(2) If
				  the request for registration is incomplete, the department will notify the
				  requestor. An incomplete request for registration of a delayed birth
				  certificate will be returned to the requestor if not completed within one
				  year.
(3) The department will not
				  register a delayed birth certificate for a deceased person.
(4) Any person born in this state who is
				  unable to meet the requirements for a delayed registration of birth may
				  petition the superior court of the county of residence or county of birth for
				  an order establishing a record of the date and place of his or her birth, and
				  his or her parentage as allowed by
				  RCW
				   70.58.145.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › HEALTH INFORMATION › Chapter 246-490 - Vital statistics › INDIVIDUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONAL PURPOSES › Section 246-490-100 - Reporting of pregnancy terminations

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Each hospital and facility where lawful induced abortions
					 are performed during the first, second, or third trimester of pregnancy shall,
					 on forms prescribed and supplied by the secretary, report to the department
					 during the following month the number and dates of induced abortions performed
					 during the previous month, giving for each abortion the age of the patient,
					 geographic location of patient's residence, patient's previous pregnancy
					 history, the duration of the pregnancy, the method of abortion, any
					 complications, such as perforations, infections, and incomplete evacuations,
					 the name of the physician or physicians performing or participating in the
					 abortion and such other relevant information as may be required by the
					 secretary. All physicians performing abortions in nonapproved facilities when
					 the physician has determined that termination of pregnancy was immediately
					 necessary to the meet a medical emergency, shall also report in the same
					 manner, and shall additionally provide a clear and detailed statement of the
					 facts upon which he or she based his or her judgment of medical
					 emergency.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						43.70.040 and [43.70.]050. 94-04-083, §
						246-490-100, filed 1/31/94, effective
						3/3/94.