Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.14 Health Care Services Purchased By State Agencies

70.14.020 State agencies to identify alternative health care providers
Each of the agencies listed in *RCW 70.14.010, with the exception of the department of labor and industries, which expends more than five hundred thousand ...

70.14.030 Health care utilization review procedures
Plans for establishing or improving utilization review procedures for purchased health care services shall be developed by each agency listed in *RCW 70.14.010. The plans ...

70.14.040 Review of prospective rate setting methods
The state agencies listed in *RCW 70.14.010 shall review the feasibility of establishing prospective payment approaches within their health care programs. Work plans or timetables ...

70.14.050 Drug purchasing cost controls -- Establishment of evidence-based prescription drug program
(1) Each agency administering a state purchased health care program as defined in RCW 41.05.011(2) shall, in cooperation with other agencies, take any necessary actions ...

70.14.060 Prescription drug purchasing consortium -- Participation -- Prescription drug consortium advisory committee -- Exceptions -- Rules
(1) The administrator of the state health care authority shall, directly or by contract, adopt policies necessary for establishment of a prescription drug purchasing consortium. ...

70.14.070 Prescription drug consortium account
The prescription drug consortium account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from activities related to administration of the state drug ...

70.14.080 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 70.14.090 through 70.14.130 unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Administrator" means the administrator of the Washington ...

70.14.090 Health technology clinical committee
(1) A health technology clinical committee is established, to include the following eleven members appointed by the administrator in consultation with participating state agencies: (a) ...

70.14.100 Health technology selection and assessment
(1) The administrator, in consultation with participating agencies and the committee, shall select the health technologies to be reviewed by the committee under RCW 70.14.110. ...

70.14.110 Health technology clinical committee determinations
(1) The committee shall determine, for each health technology selected for review under RCW 70.14.100: (a) The conditions, if any, under which the health technology ...

70.14.120 Agency compliance with committee determination -- Coverage and reimbursement determinations for nonreviewed health technologies -- Appeals
(1) A participating agency shall comply with a determination of the committee under RCW 70.14.110 unless: (a) The determination conflicts with an applicable federal statute ...

70.14.130 Health technology clinical committee -- Public notice
(1) The administrator shall develop a centralized, internet-based communication tool that provides, at a minimum: (a) Notification when a health technology is selected for review ...

70.14.140 Applicability to health care services purchased from health carriers
RCW 70.14.080 through 70.14.130 and 41.05.013 do not apply to state purchased health care services that are purchased from or through health carriers as defined ...

70.14.150 Data-sharing agreements -- Report
(1) The department of social and health services and the health care authority shall enter into data-sharing agreements with the appropriate agencies in the states ...