RCW 48.43.680
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(1)A health benefit plan that is issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2010, and that provides coverage for organ and tissue transplants, may not permit a separate lifetime limit on transplants of any less than three hundred fifty thousand dollars. The lifetime limit on transplants shall apply from one day prior to the date of the transplant or the date of hospital admission, for a patient who receives a transplant during the course of a longer hospital stay, through one hundred days after the transplant. Donor-related services may apply to the lifetime limit on transplants any time. The major medical lifetime limit shall apply to health care services provided before and after this time period. Benefits provided are subject to all other terms and conditions of the health benefit plan, including but not limited to any applicable coinsurances, deductibles, and copayments.
(2)"Organ and tissue transplant" means the same as defined under the applicable health benefit plan.
[ 2009 c 487 s 1 .]