{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-48.39.020","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 48.39.020","heading":"Payor may require provider to extend payor's medicaid rates—Limitations.","body":"A payor may require a health care provider to extend the payor's medicaid rates, or some percentage above the payor's medicaid rates, that govern a health benefit program administered by a public purchaser to a commercial plan or line of business offered by a payor that is not administered by a public purchaser only if the health care provider has expressly agreed in writing to the extension. For the purposes of this section, \"administered by a public purchaser\" does not include commercial coverage offered through the Washington health benefit exchange. Nothing in this section prohibits a payor from utilizing medicaid rates, or some percentage above medicaid rates, as a base when negotiating payment rates with a health care provider.","path":["Title 48","Chapter 48.39"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=48.39.020","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:14:54Z","sha256":"b968bbc9b71db4e4e7e13f5418854d41df155d90268b22ae05a0feeec9566c49","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-48.39.010","next":"us-wa/rcw-48.39.030"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}