On and after July 1, 1988, the *administrator
shall accept for enrollment applicants eligible to receive
covered basic health care services from the respective managed
health care systems which are then participating in the plan.
Thereafter, total subsidized enrollment shall not result in
expenditures that exceed the total amount that has been made
available by the legislature in any act appropriating funds to
the plan. To the extent that new funding is appropriated for
expansion, the *administrator shall endeavor to secure
participation contracts from managed health care systems in
geographic areas of the state that are unserved by the plan at
the time at which the new funding is appropriated. In the
selection of any such areas the *administrator shall take into
account the levels and rates of unemployment in different areas
of the state, the need to provide basic health care coverage to a
population reasonably representative of the portion of the
state's population that lacks such coverage, and the need for
geographic, demographic, and economic diversity.
The *administrator shall at all times closely monitor
growth patterns of enrollment so as not to exceed that consistent
with the orderly development of the plan as a whole, in any area
of the state or in any participating managed health care system. The annual or biennial enrollment limitations derived from
operation of the plan under this section do not apply to
nonsubsidized enrollees as defined in **RCW 70.47.020(5).
[1993 c 492 § 213; 1987 1st ex.s. c 5 § 10.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: *(1) The definition of "administrator" was
changed to "director" in RCW 70.47.020 by 2011 1st sp.s. c 15 §
83.
**(2) RCW 70.47.020 was amended by 2011 1st sp.s. c 9 § 3,
changing subsection (5) to subsection (6).
Findings--Intent -- 1993 c 492: See notes following RCW 43.20.050.
Short title -- Severability -- Savings -- Captions not law -- Reservation of legislative power -- Effective dates -- 1993 c 492: See RCW 43.72.910 through 43.72.915.