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PDFWAC 284-180-325

Required notices.

(1) Carriers must post on their website information that identifies each health care benefit manager contracted with the carrier, either directly or indirectly through subcontracting with a health care benefit manager or other entity, and identify the services provided by each health care benefit manager. The information must be visually prominent and easily located on the carriers' website with a link from the web page utilized for enrollees. The carrier is required to update the information on their website within 30 business days of any change, such as addition or removal of a health care benefit manager or a change in the services provided by a health care benefit manager.
(2) Carriers must notify enrollees in writing and at least annually, including at plan enrollment and renewal, of each health care benefit manager contracted with the carrier to provide any health care benefit management services, either directly or indirectly through subcontracting with a health care benefit manager or other entity. For example, written notices include disclosure in the policy or member handbook. This notice must identify the website address where enrollees can view an updated listing of all health care benefit managers utilized by the carrier.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 48.200.900 and 48.02.060. WSR 25-02-024 (Matter R 2024-02), s 284-180-325, filed 12/18/24, effective 1/18/25; WSR 21-02-034, ยง 284-180-325, filed 12/29/20, effective 1/1/22.]