WAC 246-562-087   Eligibility for facilities hiring physicians as hospitalists.  (1) A health care facility is limited to one hospitalist sponsorship per hospital per program year. Multiple employers at the same location are not allowed.

     (2) A facility may only use inpatient data on the patient visit report required in WAC 246-562-060 to demonstrate that ten percent of applicant's total patient visits were to medicaid and/or other low-income patients.

     (3) A facility must identify primary care physicians in the community who will accept unattached medicaid, medicare or uninsured patients for follow-up care.



[Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.185 RCW and Public Law 108-441. 06-07-035, § 246-562-087, filed 3/8/06, effective 4/8/06.]