Washington Administrative Code
Title 246 - Health, Department of
HEALTH PROMOTION AND CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION
Chapter 246-562 - Physician visa waivers
Section 246-562-085 - Eligibility for primary care and specialist waivers
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 246-562-085
Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1) Primary care waivers.
(a)
Primary care waivers are available to the following physician specialties:
(i) Family medicine;
(ii) General internal medicine;
(iii) Pediatrics;
(iv) Geriatric medicine;
(v) Obstetrics and gynecology; or
(vi) Psychiatry and its
subspecialties.
(b)
Physicians who have completed any additional sub-specialty training are not
eligible for a primary care waiver, with the exception of geriatric medicine
and psychiatry. Continuing medical education (CME) will not be considered
sub-specialty training for the purposes of this rule.
(2) Specialist waivers. Specialist waivers are available to nonprimary care physician specialties. Applicants submitting an application for a specialist physician must:
(a) Demonstrate a need for the nonprimary
care specialty by using data to show how the physician specialty is needed to
address a major health problem in the practice location service area, address a
population to provider ratio imbalance, or meet government requirements such as
trauma designation regulations.
(b)
Describe how this specialty will link to primary care.
(c) Describe how the demand for the specialty
has been handled in the past.
(d)
Describe the practice location's referral system that includes:
(i) On-call sharing;
(ii) How patients from other health care
entities in the service area, specifically publicly funded employers, will be
able to access the sponsored physician's services.
(e) Provide written notice to the department
and all publicly funded employers in the applicant's HPSA within thirty days of
the sponsored physician's start-date of employment. The notice must include:
(i) The sponsored physician's name,
employment start date, and practice location;
(ii) Services to be provided; and
(iii) Identification of accepted patients,
such as medicaid, medicare, and the availability of a sliding fee schedule of
discounts.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.185 RCW and Public Law 108-441. 06-07-035, § 246-562-085, filed 3/8/06, effective 4/8/06.
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