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Chapter 246-564 WAC

Last Update: 5/4/05

VOLUNTEER RETIRED PROVIDER MALPRACTICE INSURANCE PROGRAM

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HTMLPDF246-564-001Purpose.
HTMLPDF246-564-010Qualified practice settings defined.


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Purpose.

The volunteer retired provider malpractice insurance program (VRP) was established under RCW 43.70.460 and 43.70.470, and is administered by the department of health. The VRP program serves low-income patients by increasing access to health care services. The program pays the malpractice insurance for volunteer health care providers in qualified practice settings.
[Statutory Authority: 2004 c 184, RCW 43.70.470. WSR 05-10-094, § 246-564-001, filed 5/4/05, effective 6/4/05.]



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Qualified practice settings defined.

Qualified practice settings include any of the following:
(1) Public or tax exempt corporations.
(2) For-profit practice settings that maintain and hold themselves out to the public as providing health care services to medicaid patients and post a sliding fee scale.
(3) For-profit practice settings that have established hours on a regular basis for providing free health care services.
(4) For-profit practice settings that participate, through a written agreement, in a community-based program to provide access to health care services for uninsured persons.
[Statutory Authority: 2004 c 184, RCW 43.70.470. WSR 05-10-094, § 246-564-010, filed 5/4/05, effective 6/4/05.]