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Mental health treatment—Waiver of preauthorization for persons involuntarily committed.
A health care service contractor providing hospital or medical services or benefits in this state shall waive a preauthorization from the contractor before an insured or an insured's covered dependents receive mental health treatment rendered by a state hospital as defined in RCW
72.23.010 if the insured or the insured's covered dependents are involuntarily committed to a state hospital as defined in RCW
72.23.010.
NOTES:
Savings—Severability—1993 c 272: See notes following RCW
43.20B.347.