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Apple Health (Medicaid): Provider Alert

Proposal - Public Hearings (CR102)

182-60-010, -020, -025, -027, -030, -035, -040, -045, -050,  Patient Decision Aids
Purpose: The agency is revising the rules governing the certification process for patient decision aids to add more guidance and specificity.  (WSR 17-14-057)

Permanent Adoption (CR103P)

182-531-1000;182-544-0010, -0050, -0150, -0250, -0300, -0325, -0350, -0400, -0500, -0550, -0560, -0575, -0600  Vision Care, Purpose: The agency is amending WAC 182-544-0325, Vision care – Covered eyeglass frames – Clients age twenty and younger, to remove the limitation for durable or flexible frames and add limitations for incidental repairs to eyeglass frames and replacement of lost or broken eyeglass frames. The agency is amending WAC 182-544-0350, Vision care – Covered eyeglass lenses – Clients age twenty and younger, to add limitations for lost or broken eyeglass lenses; add diagnosed medical conditions for coverage of polycarbonate lenses; and move subsections (3)(b) through (d) to subsection (1). The other sections of Chapter 182-544 WAC contain housekeeping changes and some clarifying language. WAC 182-531-1000, Ophthalmic services, contains housekeeping changes and adds clarifying language in regards to eye examinations.
(WSR 17-14-067

Emergency Adoption (CR103E)

182-531A-0800, Applied behavior analysis (ABA)
Purpose: The agency is revising WAC 182-531A-0800, Applied behavior analysis (ABA) - Provider requirements, to align with new credentialing for Applied Behavioral Analysis providers through the Washington State Department of Health under Chapter 246-805 WAC.  (WSR  17-14-064)