§ 74.32.130. Advisory committee on vendor rates -- Powers and duties
The committee shall have the following powers and duties:
(1) Study and review the methods and procedures for establishing the rates and/or fees of all vendors of goods, services and care purchased by the department of social and health services including all medical and welfare care and services.
(2) Provide each professional and trade association or other representative groups of each of the service areas, the opportunity to present to the committee their evidence for justifying the methods of computing and the justification for the rates and/or fees they propose.
(3) The committee shall have the authority to request vendors to appoint a fiscal intermediary to provide the committee with an evaluation and justification of the method of establishing rates and/or fees.
(4) Prepare and submit a written report to the governor, at least sixty days prior to each session of the legislature, which contains its findings and recommendations concerning the methods and procedures for establishing rates and/or fees and the specific rates and/or fees that should be paid by the department of social and health services to the various designated vendors. This report shall include the suggested effective dates of the recommended rates and/or fees when appropriate.
The vendors shall furnish adequate documented evidence related to the cost of providing their particular services, care or supplies, in the form, to the extent and at such times as the committee may determine.
The chairman of this committee, shall have the same authority as provided in RCW 74.04.290 as it is now or hereafter amended.
[1971 ex.s. c 87 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 203 § 4.]
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