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Wash. Rev. Code § 70.41.250. Cost disclosure to health care providers: Hospital Licensing and Regulation – Washington

Status: Enacted
Year Enacted: 1993
File: Download

Requires procedures for disclosing to physicians and other health care providers the charges of all health care services ordered for their patients. Copies of hospital charges shall be made available to any physician and/or other health care provider ordering care in hospital inpatient/outpatient services. The physician and/or other health care provider may inform the patient of these charges and may specifically review them. Hospitals are also directed to study methods for making daily charges available to prescribing physicians using interactive software and/or computerized information thereby allowing physicians and other health care providers to review not only the costs of present and past services but also future contemplated costs for additional diagnostic studies and therapeutic medications.


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