Wash. Admin. Code § 284-66-010
The purpose of this chapter is to supplement the requirements of chapter 48.66 RCW, the Medicare Supplemental Health Insurance Act; to assure the orderly implementation and conversion of medicare supplement insurance benefits and premiums due to changes in the federal medicare program; to provide for the reasonable simplification and standardization of the coverage, terms, and benefits of medicare supplement insurance policies and certificates, and to eliminate policy provisions that may duplicate medicare benefits as the federal medicare program changes; to facilitate public understanding and comparison of policies and to eliminate provisions contained in policies that may be misleading or confusing; to establish minimum standards for medicare supplement insurance, an "outline of coverage" and other disclosure requirements; to prohibit the use of certain provisions in medicare supplemental insurance policies; to define and prohibit certain acts and practices as unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices; and to establish loss ratio requirements, policy reserves, filing and reporting procedures.
Wash. Admin. Code § 284-66-010
Statutory Authority: RCW 48.02.060 and 48.66.165. 05-17-019 (Matter No. R 2004-08), § 284-66-010, filed 8/4/05, effective 9/4/05. Statutory Authority: RCW 48.02.060, 48.20.450, 48.20.460, 48.20.470, 48.30.010, 48.44.020, 48.44.050, 48.44.070, 48.46.030, 48.46.130 and 48.46.200. 92-06-021 (Order R 92-1), § 284-66-010, filed 2/25/92, effective 3/27/92. Statutory Authority: RCW 48.02.060, 48.20.450, 48.20.460, 48.20.470, 48.30.010, 48.44.020, 48.44.050, 48.44.070, 48.46.030, 48.46.130, 48.46.200, 48.66.041, 48.66.050, 48.66.100, 48.66.110, 48.66.120, 48.66.130, 48.66.150 and 48.66.160. 90-07-059 (Order R 90-4), § 284-66-010, filed 3/20/90, effective 4/20/90.