PDFWAC 246-310-710
Concurrent review.
The department shall review new adult elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) services using the concurrent review cycle according to the following table:
Concurrent Review Cycle:
Application Submission Period | Letters of Intent Due | First working day through last working day of January of each year. | |
Receipt of Initial Application | First working day through last working day of February of each year. | ||
End of Screening Period | Last working day of March of each year. | ||
Applicant Response | Last working day of April of each year. | ||
Department Action | Beginning of Review Preparation | May 1 through May 15 | |
Application Review Period | Public Comment Period (includes public hearing if requested) | 60-Day Public Comment Period | Begins May 16 of each year or the first working day after May 16. |
Rebuttal Period | 30-Day Rebuttal period | Applicant and affected party response to public comment. | |
Ex parte Period | 45-Day Ex parte period | Department evaluation and decision. | |
(1) If the department is unable to meet the deadline for making a decision on the application, it will notify applicants fifteen days prior to the scheduled decision date. In that event, the department will establish a new decision date.
(2) The department may not accept new applications for a planning area if there are any pending applications in that planning area filed under a previous concurrent review cycle, or applications submitted prior to the effective date of these rules that affect any of the new planning areas, unless the department has not made a decision on the pending applications within the review timelines of nine months for a concurrent review and six months for a regular review.
(3) If the department determines that an application does not compete with another application, it may convert the review of an application that was initially submitted under a concurrent review cycle to a regular review process.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.38.128. WSR 09-01-113, ยง 246-310-710, filed 12/19/08, effective 12/19/08.]