{"meta":{"key":"s_wa--pass-15","task":"S_WA","title":"SWA Hospital charity care, medical billing, and medical-debt collection","parent_title":"Washington debt and debt relief law","edition":"pass-15","path":"/research/s_wa--pass-15/","kind":"split_pass","category":"state","role":"state","area_numbers":[66],"groups":["collections"],"date":"2026-10-28","tables":19,"claims":112,"sources":41,"review_status":"scoped_coordinator_review_selected_text_and_all_holds_retained","review_complete":true,"sha256":"9fd847e50cffaed2a7be883c135df06784ba424c1cebd0094fa81633d470f8e4","headings":["Reading conventions and scope","1. Material legal-category and actor comparisons","2A. Current codified operative sources","2B. Adopted originals, federal poverty publication, interpretation, and status sources","3A. Scope, definitions, and institutional boundaries","3B. Assistance duties, tiers, assets, and poverty reference","3C. Screening, documentation, decision, appeal, and refund","3D. Billing, charges, transfer, and collection information","3E. Reporting, unenforceability, liens, and narrow enforcement","3F. Oversight and remedy boundaries","3G. Versions and additional reconciliation claims","4A. Eligibility, assistance, assets, and information duties","4B. Collection, charges, liens, and remedies","4C. Version and application register","8A. Read and search activity","8B. Discovery-only material and unresolved source identities","8C. Bounded access and failure log","Remaining evidence gaps","Researcher self-check — not independent review"],"generation_provenance":{"actual_route":"regular_chat_adaptive_models","actual_model":"GPT-6","actual_mode":"Pro","provenance_limit":"Actual documented capture labels only; missing labels remain unknown. No preferred setting is inferred as actual execution."},"public_id":"S_WA/pass-15","facets":{"geography":["us","us-wa"],"debt_type":["medical"],"stage":["collection"],"subject":["medical-assistance","employment-care-benefits"]},"scope":"Independent required generic hospitalcharitycare/medicalbilling-debt/medical-debtcollection-relief portiondimension6; utilitymedical/ordinarygarnishment/privatehospitalpolicies/fullinsurance-federal-localmerits excluded.","pending_corrections":0},"markdown":"# S_WA PASS-15 — Hospital charity care, medical billing, and medical-debt collection\n\n**Actual public-source access: October 28, 2026, America/Los_Angeles.**\n\nWashington’s hospital-charity-care requirements, medical-debt collection restrictions, and medical-debt credit-reporting provisions are separate legal layers. Their coverage, triggers, exceptions, and consequences must be tested separately.\n\nThe principal findings are:\n\n- **Hospital assistance:** RCW 70.170.060 establishes differentiated mandatory assistance levels. The 2022 amendments apply to care provided on or after July 1, 2022. The currently displayed charity-care rules retain older income bands, so those rules cannot be used to reduce the later statutory minimums. Several procedural cross-references to the older bands remain a specific interpretation gap.  \n- **Collection pauses:** A hospital’s initial screening obligation, a pending charity-care determination or appeal, a collection agency’s receipt of an itemization request, and the restriction on transferring medical debt to a licensed collection agency have different triggers. The postjudgment-writ exception in one itemization provision cannot be silently imported into the separate charity-pendency prohibition.\n- **Reporting:** The 2025 enactment replaced the former medical-debt reporting waiting period with a prohibition on a licensee’s adverse reporting. Additional provisions prohibit specified furnishing and expressly make medical debt void and unenforceable when their violation predicates are met. This is a conditional statutory consequence, not a finding about any debt.\n- **Charges and remedies:** The prejudgment medical-interest ceiling is not authority to impose interest. Charity adjustments, conditional refunds, fee forfeiture, reporting-related unenforceability, administrative penalties, and private Consumer Protection Act remedies have distinct predicates.\n- **Remaining limits:** The complete residency interpretation, the latest supplemental charity-rule proposal, specified incorporated definitions, federal overlays, and judicial construction remain held as detailed below. No institution, person, bill, application, or outcome has been classified. [app.leg.wa.gov+4](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com)\n\n## Reading conventions and scope\n\nEvery S###, C###, and B### below belongs to this pass:\n\n- S001 means **S_WA-P15-S001**.\n- C001 means **S_WA-P15-C001**.\n- B001 means the conditional branch identified in this report.\n\nThe source register supplies the literal URL and read bounds for the claim citations. **“Current code” means the official online codified text actually retrieved during this access session.** It does not mean that a page copyright date, crawler date, or chapter-wide metadata establishes a clause’s effective date.\n\nAll substantive sources used here were newly read for this component. Supplied descriptions of previous reports establish scope only. Their merits, saved files, reviews, and claimed completion states were not independently inspected.\n\n## 1. Material legal-category and actor comparisons\n\n| Category or distinction | Source-supported treatment in this pass | Boundary retained |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Hospital charity care versus all medical debt | Charity care concerns qualifying medically necessary hospital care and the patient-responsibility portion after relevant third-party coverage. The medical-debt definition used in collection/reporting law is broader. C001–C010. | A nonhospital bill is not automatically covered by hospital charity care, and it is not automatically outside medical-debt collection protections. |\n| Hospital versus professional services | The hospital definitions and licensing gateways matter. WAC 246-453-050(3) separately addresses professional services of hospital medical staff when individually submitted or separately identified in hospital billing. C002–C003. | A hospital location or a combined statement does not establish that every charge receives the same charity treatment. |\n| Insurance versus charity assistance | Third-party coverage and charity assistance are separate inquiries. Pending negligence recoveries do not postpone charity consideration under the statute. C007, C015–C017, C112. | No insurance entitlement, exhaustion finding, coverage appeal, or balance-billing result is determined. |\n| Full assistance versus partial discount | The statute provides full patient-responsibility assistance at specified income levels and partial discounts in higher bands. Its asset-reduction language attaches to the partial-discount provisions. C018–C029. | No hospital tier, family size, income, asset value, or percentage calculation is supplied. |\n| Hospital collection versus licensed agency collection | Hospitals have screening and determination duties. RCW 19.16.250 applies by its stated licensee/employee scope. C011–C012, C033–C044, C055–C062. | An original creditor is not automatically a collection-agency licensee; neither label establishes actual coverage. |\n| Itemization pause versus charity-pendency pause | Itemization requests trigger RCW 19.16.250(28)(a)(ii), including its own exceptions. Hospital charity pendency is addressed separately in subsection (29)(b), conditioned on notice to the licensee. C057–C062. | The exceptions are not interchangeable. |\n| Debt transfer versus reporting | RCW 70.54.470 regulates transfer timing to licensed collection agencies. Current reporting provisions impose separate restrictions. C054, C068–C073. | The transfer waiting period does not authorize later reporting. |\n| Reporting prohibition versus debt cancellation | Some reporting provisions expressly attach void-and-unenforceable consequences to a violation; the CRA-content prohibition is a different provision. C068–C074. | A prohibited report, a qualifying violation, debt unenforceability, refund entitlement, and damages are not treated as identical findings. |\n| Prejudgment versus postjudgment interest | Medical prejudgment interest has a specific ceiling. Consumer-judgment interest has a separate rule with a written-contract exception. C064–C065. | No accrual date, lawful underlying interest entitlement, compounding convention, or judgment predicate is determined. |\n| Ordinary medical collection versus traumatic-injury lien | Chapter 60.44 reaches specified claims or recoveries arising from traumatic injury, subject to its conditions. C076–C081. | It is not a general lien on every asset or every medical bill. |\n| Administrative oversight versus private recovery | DOH oversight, charity appeals, collection-agency regulation, statutory fee forfeiture, and CPA recovery have different functions. C082–C093. | No violation, private standing, damages, penalty, or award is established. |\n| Current enactment versus proposed or future text | The 2025 reporting amendments are distinct from 2026 proposals and future-effective debt-action provisions. C094–C106. | Proposed language and future provisions are not applied as present protection or present authority. |\n\n# 2. Source and usage register\n\n## 2A. Current codified operative sources\n\n**Access for every row: October 28, 2026, Pacific time.** “Complete” refers to the specified section or subsection, not an entire title or regulatory system.\n\n| Source ID | Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL | Actual read bounds and use | Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-S001** | Washington Legislature, **Hospital charity care**, RCW 70.170.020, .060, .070. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.070](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.070&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .020(1)–(7), .060(1)–(13), .070(1)–(3), displayed credits and notes. | Current code. Material credits: .020—2024 c.121 §28, 2022 c.197 §1, 2018 c.263 §1; .060—2025 c.182 §3, 2022 c.197 §2, 2018 c.263 §2; .070—1989 1st ex.s. c.9 §507. Reviser notes expose renumbered and repealed cross-references. Material originals in S020–S024. [app.leg.wa.gov+2](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S002** | Washington DOH/Washington Legislature, **Hospital charity care**, chapter 246-453 WAC. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete displayed operative sections -001, -010, -020, -030, -040, -050, -060, -070, -080, -090 and chapter disposition information; selected individual section pages also read. | Current displayed rules retain older thresholds. Material credits include WSR 91-05-048, filed February 14, 1991, effective March 17, 1991, and WSR 94-12-089, filed June 1, 1994, effective July 2, 1994. Original-rule access gaps and 2026 proposal gap remain. [app.leg.wa.gov+6](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453-010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S003** | Washington Legislature, **Hospital licensing definitions and billing information**, chapter 70.41 RCW. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.400](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.400&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.450](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.450&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .020(9), .090, .400(1)–(4), .450; relevant notes. Other chapter text was not treated as completed hospital-law coverage. | Current code. Material credits: .020—2025 c.182 §4; .400—2025 c.145 §5 and 2006 c.60 §2; .450—2009 c.529 §2. Full licensing history not authenticated. [app.leg.wa.gov+2](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S004** | Washington Legislature, **Behavioral health hospital definitions/licensing gateway**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.455](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.455&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.460](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.460&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .455 definitions and .460 licensing/exception clauses. | Current code. .455 material amendment: 2024 c.121 §19; .460 includes 2024 c.204 §1. The tribal attestation and incorporated tribal-definition regime were not completed. No actual institutional classification. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S005** | Washington Legislature, **Health-care information definitions**, RCW 70.02.010. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete relied-on current definitions of health care, facility, provider, patient, and person; corresponding displayed future definitions inspected. | Current version displayed until June 30, 2027; future version displayed effective that date. Credits include 2024 c.209 §31 and future 2025 c.58 §5128. The future act’s complete application/effective chain was not read; future text is not applied. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S006** | Washington Legislature, **Health-care insurance definitions**, RCW 48.43.005. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete relied-on subsections (28)–(31), including facility/provider and ground-ambulance distinctions; credits. | Current code incorporates 2026 c.165 §14. The federal additional-facility incorporation and every underlying professional-license chapter were not completed. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S007** | Washington Legislature, **HMO definitions**, RCW 48.46.020. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete definitions (1)–(23), including HMO, enrollee, carrier, and prepaid arrangements. | Current code; credits include 2012 c.211 §22. Qualification provisions .030/.040 were not completed. Used to bound, not establish, the .400 HMO exception. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S008** | Washington Legislature, **Collection Agency Act**, chapter 19.16 RCW. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .100; .250 introduction and relied-on (8), (9), (15), (16), (21), (22), (27)–(29); complete .440, .450, .460, .470, .480, .500, .510, .900. | Current code. Material credits: 2025 c.145 §§1,3; 2019 c.227 §§3,4; .450 amendment in 2020 c.30; .500 credits 2011 c.57 §2, 1997 c.387 §1, 1982 c.65 §1. Complete licensing, debt-buyer litigation, and out-of-state federal-incorporation coverage remain open. [app.leg.wa.gov+3](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S009** | Washington Legislature, **Medical-debt transfer and furnishing**, RCW 70.54.470–.475. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.475](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.475&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Both sections complete. | Current code. .470: 2019 c.227 §7. .475: 2025 c.145 §2. The latter has no express local definitions cross-reference; its exact cross-chapter construction is held. [app.leg.wa.gov+1](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S010** | Washington Legislature, **Consumer reporting definitions, permissible purposes, prohibited information**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.040](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.040&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete relied-on .010 consumer/report/CRA definitions and report exclusions; complete .020 and .040. | Current code; medical amendment in 2025 c.145 §4. Federal preemption, reporting disputes, and full state reporting remedies not completed. [app.leg.wa.gov+2](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S011** | Washington Legislature, **Interest**, RCW 19.52.010–.020. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Both sections complete; medical subsections .010(2), .020(4) relied upon. | Current code; medical provisions from 2019 c.227 §§5–6. Other loan/lease branches read only to prevent transfer of their rules into medical debt. [app.leg.wa.gov+1](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S012** | Washington Legislature, **Interest on judgments**, RCW 4.56.110. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete (1)–(6) and notes; (1)/(5) used. | Current code; consumer branch from 2019 c.371 §1. No judgment validity, duration, renewal, accrual computation, or historical judgment classification. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S013** | Washington Legislature, **Execution definitions**, RCW 6.01.060. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete section; consumer debt and medical-debt incorporation used. | Current code; relevant 2019 c.371 definition amendment also inspected. No wage, bank, or property-exemption result imported. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S014** | Washington Legislature, **Supplemental proceedings—medical-debt arrest limitation**, RCW 6.32.010. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete section; subsection (4) used. | Current code; medical amendment 2019 c.227 §2. Other supplemental-proceeding mechanics not offered as this pass’s coverage. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S015** | Washington Legislature, **Medical liens**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.030](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.030&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.040](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.040&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.050](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.050&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.060](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .010–.060. | Current code. .010 credits include 1987 c.185 §36, 1975 1st ex.s. c.250 §1, 1937 c.69 §1. Material .020/.060 changes authenticated in 2015 c.201. Older originals and priority/construction remain held. [app.leg.wa.gov+5](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S016** | Washington Legislature, **Consumer Protection Act**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.020](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.090](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.090&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.093](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.093&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.170](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.170&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | All four sections complete. | Current code. Material private-remedy/public-interest amendments: 2009 c.371. Full CPA, court jurisdiction, limitations, and judicial elements not completed. [app.leg.wa.gov+3](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.86.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S017** | Washington DOH, **Hospital licensing scope and patient rights**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-141](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-141&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete both sections. | Current code. Credits include WSR 09-07-050, effective April 11, 2009; -141 also WSR 14-02-040, effective January 23, 2014. Adopted originals not read. Care/treatment complaint rights are not enlarged into a universal debt-collection retaliation remedy. [app.leg.wa.gov+1](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S018** | Washington Department of Licensing, **Collection-agency rules**, chapter 308-29 WAC. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete -010, -070, -080; bounded chapter search for medical-specific text. | Current code. -070/-080: WSR 01-11-132, effective June 22, 2001; -010: WSR 21-03-046, effective February 14, 2021. General satisfaction-reporting rule is not treated as permission to violate later medical-reporting statutes. [app.leg.wa.gov+1](https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S019** | Washington Legislature, **Hospital information reporting**, RCW 43.70.052. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete (7), (8)–(13), selected (1); only quarterly charity-application reporting relied upon here. | Current code; 2021 c.162 §1. Funding contingency traced through S039/S041. No full hospital-data/privacy regime claim. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 2B. Adopted originals, federal poverty publication, interpretation, and status sources\n\nFor PDFs, p. is the document’s printed page and index is its **zero-based PDF page index**. These were parsed-text readings, not claims of pixel inspection.\n\n| Source ID | Issuer/title and literal URL | Actual read bounds | Status and material application |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-S020** | Washington Legislature, **2022 c.197, SHB 1616**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover index 0; complete §§1–4, pp.1–8/indexes 1–8. | Enacted; effective June 9, 2022. §4 applies expanded law to care on/after July 1, 2022 and preserves prior law for earlier care. §3’s study expiration is separate. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S021** | Washington Legislature, **2018 c.263, SSB 6273**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–5/indexes 1–5. | Enacted; §3 effective October 1, 2018. Notice and income-time provisions distinguished from later tier amendments. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S022** | Washington Legislature, **2024 c.121, ESSB 5271**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §19, pp.43–45/indexes 43–45; §28, pp.79–80/indexes 79–80; closing repeal provision at p.106/index 106. | Enacted; cover effective June 6, 2024. Selected hospital/charity definitions only; not the entire 107-page instrument. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S023** | Washington Legislature, **2025 c.182, ESSB 5557**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; §3’s changed emergency-transfer clause, pp.2–3/indexes 2–3; §4(9) hospital definition, pp.9–10/indexes 9–10; §§5–6, p.11/index 11. | Enacted; immediate effective date April 29, 2025. Not a claim that every clause of .060 was newly enacted in 2025. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S024** | Washington Legislature, **2025 c.145, ESSB 5480—medical debt**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; §1 medical definition, pp.3–4/indexes 3–4; complete §2, p.4/index 4; complete material §3(28)–(29), pp.13–15/indexes 13–15; §§4–6, pp.15–17/indexes 15–17; selected other §3 clauses. | Enacted; effective July 27, 2025. No express general retroactivity clause found in the read closing provisions. Historical-furnishing application and federal preemption remain held. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S025** | Washington Legislature, **2019 c.227, SHB 1531—medical debt**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; §§1–2, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2; §5(2), §6, §7, pp.15–17/indexes 15–17; selected medical collection language elsewhere. | Enacted; effective July 28, 2019. Existing-interest transition expressly read. The former reporting waiting period is historical, superseded by S024. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S026** | Washington Legislature, **2020 c.30, SHB 2476**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §§3–5, pp.5–6/indexes 5–6. | Enacted; effective June 11, 2020. §5 expressly prospective for relevant claims purchased by debt buyers on/after that date. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S027** | Washington Legislature, **2019 c.371, SHB 1602**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §1, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2; relevant §2 definitions, pp.2–3/indexes 2–3; closing text inspected. | Enacted; effective July 28, 2019. Used only for consumer-judgment-interest and definition history, not a garnishment rerun. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S028** | Washington Legislature, **2009 c.371, SSB 5531**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2. | Enacted; effective July 26, 2009; application to causes accruing on/after that date. No accrual analysis performed. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S029** | Washington Legislature, **2026 c.165, SSB 6248**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete relied-on §14(28)–(31), p.19/index 19; §15 effective provision, pp.23–24/indexes 23–24. | §14 effective June 11, 2026; §§1–13 effective January 1, 2027. Future portions not applied. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S030** | Washington Legislature, **2026 c.107, SSB 5720; future chapter 4.74 RCW**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5720-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+107+s+4](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5720-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+107+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.74&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.74&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Original §5(3)(b), p.4/index 4; §12 transition, p.8/index 8; §15 effective clause, p.10/index 10. Selected future codified definitions and procedure read. | Enacted future; effective January 1, 2027. Included as a future dependency, not a complete current or future court-procedure finding. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5720-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+107+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S031** | U.S. HHS, **2026 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines**, 91 FR 1797–1798. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-15/pdf/2026-00755.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-15/pdf/2026-00755.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com); same instrument’s HTML [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/15/2026-00755/annual-update-of-the-hhs-poverty-guidelines](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/15/2026-00755/annual-update-of-the-hhs-poverty-guidelines?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete HHS notice on printed pp.1797–1798/PDF indexes 0–1, including tables and scope notes. | Effective January 13, 2026 unless a program specifies otherwise. No dollar threshold selected or calculated; state program definitions and relevant income-time rule remain necessary. Formats are one instrument. [govinfo.gov+1](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-15/pdf/2026-00755.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S032** | Washington DOH, **WSR 23-19-065, interpretive statement notice—CC23-01 geographic restrictions**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2023/19/23-19-065.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2023/19/23-19-065.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Entire adoption notice. | Notice states an interpretation based on income rather than residency, effective September 18, 2023. Underlying interpretive PDF was inaccessible; notice content is not represented as a complete interpretation read or court holding. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2023/19/23-19-065.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S033** | Washington DOH, **WSR 26-16-047—proposed charity-care rules**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/16/26-16-047.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/16/26-16-047.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Proposal header, filing/status, purpose, and selected proposed text; not the entire proposed replacement. | Proposed, filed July 30, 2026. An intended adoption date is not an adoption order. Later supplemental-proposal access remains unresolved. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/16/26-16-047.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S034** | Washington Legislature, **SB 5993 legislative history**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5993&Year=2025](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5993&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Displayed bill history/status. | No enacted session law shown in the read history. Proposed interest changes are not substituted for current RCW 19.52.010/.020. Bill text not used as law. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5993&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S035** | Washington Legislature, **SB 5959 legislative history**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5959&Year=2025](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5959&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Displayed history/status. | Proposal/discovery status only; no enactment shown. No substantive eligibility restriction inferred. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5959&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S036** | Washington Legislature, **HB 2250 legislative history**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2250&Year=2025](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2250&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Displayed history/status. | Proposal/discovery status only; no enactment shown. No substantive eligibility restriction inferred. [app.leg.wa.gov](https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2250&Year=2025&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S037** | Washington Legislature, **Charge information and provider-based clinic fees**. [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.030](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.030&utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.040](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.040&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Complete .030(1)–(3), .040(1)–(5). | Current code. .030: 2009 c.529 §1. .040: 2021 c.162 §4; 2012 c.184 §1. Original 2012 chain not completed; current amendment/funding chain in S039/S041. [app.leg.wa.gov+1](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.030&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S038** | Washington Legislature, **2009 c.529, SHB 1869**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1869-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+529+s+1](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1869-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+529+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §§1–2, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2. | Enacted; effective July 26, 2009. Estimate-information and hospital-sign provisions. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1869-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+529+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S039** | Washington Legislature, **2021 c.162, E2SHB 1272**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1272-S2.SL.pdf?cite=2021+c+162+s+4](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1272-S2.SL.pdf?cite=2021+c+162+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; §1(7), p.6/index 6; complete §4, pp.8–9/indexes 8–9; §§6–7, p.12/index 12. | Enacted; effective July 25, 2021, subject to specific-funding clause. S041 supplies the expressly referenced implementation appropriation. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1272-S2.SL.pdf?cite=2021+c+162+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S040** | Washington Legislature, **2015 c.201, SHB 1503—medical liens**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1503-S.SL.pdf?cite=2015+c+201+s+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1503-S.SL.pdf?cite=2015+c+201+s+2&utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–4/indexes 1–4. | Enacted; effective July 24, 2015. Lien disclosure/release and collection-agency scope amendments; not the origin of every lien rule. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1503-S.SL.pdf?cite=2015+c+201+s+2&utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **S_WA-P15-S041** | Washington Legislature, **2021 c.334, ESSB 5092, adopted operating budget**. [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Htm/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5092-S.SL.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Htm/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5092-S.SL.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Certification/effective-date and partial-veto identification; §1(1); §222 heading and complete (32). | Historical adopted appropriation, effective May 18, 2021. §222(32) expressly funds E2SHB 1272 implementation. Used solely to resolve S039’s funding contingency; not a current assistance appropriation finding. [lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov+2](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Htm/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5092-S.SL.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n# 3. Atomic consequential claim register\n\nThe propositions below are **textual findings subject to their stated conditions**. They do not establish actual coverage, compliance, eligibility, liability, or recovery.\n\n## 3A. Scope, definitions, and institutional boundaries\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C001** | Statutory charity care concerns medically necessary hospital care for an indigent person after available third-party coverage, including inability to pay relevant deductibles or coinsurance. | S001, .020(1), (4), (7); S002, -010(4)–(7). | Medical necessity, coverage, and financial predicates are not established by a bill’s label. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C002** | The charity chapter incorporates the hospital definition and includes the specified behavioral-health-hospital category. Acute-hospital, behavioral-hospital, clinic, nursing, birthing, and residential-treatment categories are not interchangeable. | S001 .020(3); S003 .020(9), .090; S004 .455–.460. | Renumbered cross-reference identified; complete special licensing/tribal application remains held. B001. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C003** | WAC -050(3) excludes the professional services of hospital medical staff from that section and RCW 70.170.060(5) when charges are individually submitted or separately identified in hospital billing. | S002 -010(8), -050(3). | This is a charge/role-specific exclusion, not a conclusion that every charge from a professional or every combined bill is excluded. B001. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C004** | The rule’s responsible party is the individual responsible for hospital charges outside third-party sponsorship. | S002 -010(14). | Does not resolve contractual guarantor liability or aggregation of different persons’ resources. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C005** | The displayed rule defines family as two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together, treating those related persons as one family. | S002 -010(18). | No supplied household is classified; single-person and other household-construction questions are not filled by assumption. B002. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C006** | Rule-defined income is total cash receipts before taxes from the listed wages, salaries, welfare, Social Security, strike, unemployment/disability, support, alimony, and net business/investment sources. | S002 -010(17). | No gross/net conversion, asset-to-income conversion, or actual income assessment. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C007** | Statutory third-party coverage includes listed insurance and government/tribal sources; actually received negligence recoveries may be considered, but pending recoveries do not postpone charity consideration. | S001 .020(7); S002 -010(9). | The federal health-care-sharing-ministry definition and complete coverage entitlement rules remain unread dependencies. B005. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C008** | RCW 19.16.100(11) covers consumer debt to a person whose primary business is medical services/products/devices, or its agent/assignee, for those items; it expressly includes bills not past due and bills already paid. | S008 .100(11); S024 §1. | “Medical debt” is not confined to delinquent hospital accounts. No actual actor or obligation is classified. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C009** | That definition excludes cosmetic surgery but specifies that the stated reconstructive-surgery circumstances are not cosmetic surgery for this purpose. | S008 .100(11). | No procedure or diagnosis is evaluated. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C010** | Medical-debt law and transfer law use different incorporated provider/facility definitions: RCW 48.43.005 and RCW 70.02.010 respectively. | S008 .100(11); S009 .470; S005–S006. | The chapter-specific ground-ambulance distinction in 48.43.005 does not establish a universal medical-debt exclusion. B029. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C011** | Collection-agency categories include collecting others’ claims, specified fictitious-name collection, debt buyers, and specified third-party medical-lien enforcement. | S008 .100(4), (7), (10). | Licensee duties require the statutory actor predicate; no actual license or actor investigated. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C012** | The Act contains conditional employee, true-name incidental-business, billing-only, affiliation, and out-of-state exclusions. | S008 .100(5), (12). | A professional label, original-creditor label, or corporate relationship alone does not satisfy an exclusion. FDCPA incorporation in the out-of-state definition remains held. B021. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C013** | The official WSR notice announces DOH’s CC23-01 interpretation that charity eligibility is income-based rather than restricted wholly or partly by residency. | S032, entire notice. | Full interpretation inaccessible; not a completed immigration/citizenship analysis or judicial holding. B010. |\n\n## 3B. Assistance duties, tiers, assets, and poverty reference\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C014** | Each covered hospital must develop, implement, and maintain a charity-care policy enabling indigent persons to obtain charity care. | S001 .060(5). | A policy’s existence does not establish compliant implementation. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C015** | That policy must identify potentially available medical-assistance/exchange coverage and actively assist applications; qualified retroactive medical-assistance coverage receives a specific assistance duty. | S001 .060(5), introductory clauses. | Complete chapter 74.09 eligibility and coverage procedures are held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C016** | The statute’s reasonable-cooperation exception concerns a determination that the patient/guarantor qualifies for retroactive medical-assistance coverage and failure to cooperate reasonably with assistance applying. | S001 .060(5). | It is not a universal requirement that every applicant first apply for every program. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C017** | Unreasonable application burdens are prohibited, including requiring an obviously/categorically ineligible program application or one denied in the prior 12 months. | S001 .060(5); S002 -020(5), -030(4). | Physical, mental, intellectual, sensory, and language barriers must be considered as the text states; no personal condition is supplied. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C018** | The higher statutory tier uses the three alternative institutional predicates reproduced in Q003 below. | S001 .060(5)(a); S020 §2. | No institution, county, bed count, ownership group, or population reference is selected. B003. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C019** | In that tier, income not more than 300% FPL, adjusted for family size, receives charity care for the full patient-responsibility portion. | S001 .060(5)(a)(i). | Covered-care and other statutory predicates remain necessary. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C020** | The higher tier’s stated 301–350% band receives a 75% discount on the full patient-responsibility portion, subject to the permitted asset reduction. | S001 .060(5)(a)(ii). | Fractional boundary and rounding questions held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C021** | The higher tier’s stated 351–400% band receives a 50% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction. | S001 .060(5)(a)(iii). | Same boundary hold. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C022** | Hospitals outside the higher-tier predicates must provide full patient-responsibility charity care at income not more than 200% FPL. | S001 .060(5)(b)(i). | No institution assigned to this tier by default. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C023** | Their stated 201–250% band receives a 75% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction. | S001 .060(5)(b)(ii). | Fractional boundary and rounding questions held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C024** | Their stated 251–300% band receives a 50% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction. | S001 .060(5)(b)(iii). | Same boundary hold. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C025** | An asset-based reduction of the specified partial discounts requires a publicly available asset policy; the reduction must be reasonably related to considered assets. | S001 .060(5)(a)(ii)–(iii), (b)(ii)–(iii), (c)(i). | No prescribed general reduction formula was authenticated; no extension to the full-assistance provisions is assumed. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C026** | Statutory monetary-asset disregards and the early-withdrawal valuation relation are those in Q006. | S001 .060(5)(c)(ii)(A). | These are assistance-review rules, not execution or bankruptcy exemptions. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C027** | Other excluded assets include primary-residence equity, retirement plans **other than 401(k) plans**, specified vehicles, burial arrangements, and qualifying life insurance. | S001 .060(5)(c)(ii)(B)–(F). | The 401(k) exception is preserved; it is not rewritten as an exclusion for every retirement account. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C028** | Asset verification must be relevant, reasonably necessary, readily available, and nonduplicative; one current monetary-asset statement suffices, and unavailable documentation is addressed by a signed statement. | S001 .060(5)(c)(iii). | No application or document request is prepared. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C029** | Asset information obtained for charity eligibility may not be used for collection activities; the statute separately preserves CMS Medicare cost-reporting considerations. | S001 .060(5)(c)(iv)–(v). | Complete federal cost-reporting incorporation held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C030** | The 2026 HHS poverty-guideline publication is authenticated, but its existence does not select the correct guideline year, family definition, or income date for a particular charity determination. | S031; S001 .060(10)(b). | No annual dollar amount or numerical financial input is used. B004. |\n\n## 3C. Screening, documentation, decision, appeal, and refund\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C031** | The statute uses income at service, or at application when application is within two years, good-faith payment efforts exist, and eligibility is demonstrated. | S001 .060(10)(b); S021 §2. | The alternative is conditional; it is not a universal two-year application bar. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C032** | Hospitals may consider applications at any time at their discretion; the older rule also commands designation upon learning qualifying facts within its expressly stated ≤200% band. | S001 .060(11); S002 -020(10). | Extension of the older rule’s wording to new higher bands remains held. B007. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C033** | An initial sponsorship determination must precede hospital collection efforts directed at the patient. | S001 .060(10)(c). | Does not itself establish a final assistance decision. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C034** | The rule calls for initial determination at admission or as soon as possible after services start; demands and transmissions not clearly informational count as collection efforts. | S002 -020(1)(a)–(b). | A billing label alone does not establish an informational-only communication. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C035** | Cooperative applicants potentially qualifying under the rule receive its pending-final-determination collection protection; third-party reimbursement may continue, and the specified disproportionate-share-hospital clinic exception is separate. | S002 -020(1)(c)–(e). | The clinic’s incorporated DSH classification and the higher-band cross-reference issue remain held. B007–B008. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C036** | The rule accepts any one of its enumerated income documents when annualized as appropriate; it does not require every listed document. | S002 -030(2). | No actual document sufficiency or annualization is assessed. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C037** | When indigency is obvious and the hospital can establish a broad income range, the rule dispenses with exact income/documentation unless further review is requested. | S002 -030(3). | This conditional procedure is not a universal automatic presumptive-eligibility algorithm. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C038** | If the listed documentation is unavailable, the hospital must rely on the responsible party’s signed statement; verification cannot be duplicative or used to discourage application. | S002 -030(4). | No statement is constructed or evaluated. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C039** | Initially qualifying persons receive at least 14 calendar days, or longer as the stated medical-condition/reasonable-documentation needs require, to provide documentation before final determination. | S002 -020(3). | The exact older-band incorporation remains visible. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C040** | Final determination notice is due within 14 calendar days after receipt of information under -030, must state financial responsibility, and a denial must give its basis. | S002 -020(7)–(8). | Not measured automatically from an incomplete application’s first submission. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C041** | The rule requires a notified appeal procedure allowing correction/review by the CFO or equivalent and states a 30-calendar-day request period. | S002 -020(9), (9)(a). | Exact cross-reference to -040(1)/(2) is retained; higher-band reconciliation held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C042** | The rule bars external referral during the appeal period’s first 14 days and requires hospital collection to stop upon discovering a filed appeal until finalization; an upheld denial is reported in writing to the applicant and DOH with supporting documentation to DOH. | S002 -020(9)(a)–(d). | The rule’s later collection language does not override the separate 120-day transfer statute or another applicable pause. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C043** | The rule prohibits deposits after an initial determination meeting its specified -040(1)/(2) criteria. | S002 -020(6). | No universal deposit prohibition for every applicant or automatic higher-band extension is asserted. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C044** | When a paying responsible party is later found to have met the charity criteria at service, payments above the appropriate amount must be refunded within 30 days of charity designation. | S002 -020(11). | Refund basis, older cross-reference, assignment recipient, and application-time-only eligibility issues remain held. B007, B020. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C045** | Required public notice includes specified hospital locations; current policy, plain-language summary, and application must be online, with the stated language thresholds. | S001 .060(6)–(7); S002 -010(16). | No hospital website or policy inspected. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C046** | Hospital billing/collection writings require prominent first-page assistance information in English and the second-most-spoken service-area language, subject to the preprinted-statement exception. | S001 .060(8). | This is not the same language threshold as the >10% posting/application requirement. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C047** | The statute preserves meaningful-language-access obligations and requires standardized charity/interpreter training for appropriate staff. | S001 .060(9). | Full incorporated state/federal language-access law not completed. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C048** | Charity/sliding-fee and bad-debt policies are filed with DOH; modifications, rejection notices, and resubmissions have the distinct timing rules in Q016. | S002 -070. | Policy filing is not a finding that a policy or actual decision complies. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C049** | RCW 43.70.052(7) requires quarterly counts of submitted, completed, and approved charity applications beginning January 1, 2023. | S019 (7); S039 §1(7); S041 §222(32). | No hospital data or individual application record inspected. |\n\n## 3D. Billing, charges, transfer, and collection information\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C050** | RCW 70.01.030 requires requested estimate/charge information within its provider/facility scope; hospitals have a registration-area estimate-information sign duty under .450. | S037 .030; S003 .450; S038 §§1–2. | Estimate disclosure is not a final price, coverage promise, general price ceiling, or earned-charge finding. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C051** | Before or upon inpatient discharge, covered hospitals must provide the specified professional-billing-group information and an assistance contact. | S003 .400(1), (4). | Section-specific HMO exception preserved; this is not itself a complete itemized bill requirement. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C052** | Covered provider-based clinic facility fees trigger advance nonemergency notice, posting, and reporting duties under the section’s definitions and exceptions. | S037 .040(1)–(5); S039 §4. | Separate facility charge versus professional charge matters; laboratory/ancillary and excluded-clinic branches remain as written. No generic fee ceiling or entitlement inferred. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C053** | WAC -050 requires consideration of reasonable payment periods without interest/late fees in its sliding-schedule framework and gives illustrative schedules, not a universal current medical-payment formula. | S002 -050(1)–(2). | Old-band examples cannot reduce 2022 statutory assistance. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C054** | A covered provider/facility may not transfer medical debt to a licensed collection agency until at least 120 days after transmission of the initial billing statement. | S009 .470; S025 §7. | Transmission is the reference event; this is not a universal original-creditor collection moratorium. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C055** | A licensee’s first written medical-debt notice must disclose the right to request the original/redacted account number, last-payment date, and statutory itemization. | S008 .250(28)(a)(i). | No request or notice is prepared. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C056** | General licensee notice itemization requirements apply on first notice or a changed amount, with the section’s legal-process/judgment qualifications; disclosed interest also invokes the rule’s rate-disclosure requirement. | S008 .250(8)–(9); S018 -070. | Postjudgment notice qualifications are not transformed into a medical-itemization exemption. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C057** | An oral or written request for more information than a general balance letter triggers a free itemized statement and cessation of collection until it is provided, subject to the express exceptions. | S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(A)–(C). | No separate fixed response-day number appears in this clause. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C058** | Required itemization identifies medical creditor/address, service dates, provider-described services, principal, adjustments, payments, interest/fees, and charity/other reductions with the resulting amount due. | S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(A)(I)–(VIII). | It is an information duty, not proof that listed charges are valid. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C059** | A voluntary payment arrangement may continue during the itemization process unless the debtor gives the notice described in the statute. | S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(B). | This exception is not advice about payment or an approval of an arrangement. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C060** | Properly executed postjudgment writs need not cease under the itemization clause, and repeat requests for information already supplied do not require renewed cessation. | S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(C). | Validity of a writ is held; this exception is not copied into subsection (29). |\n| **S_WA-P15-C061** | The first written hospital-debt notice must state potential charity eligibility and provide hospital contact information. | S008 .250(29)(a). | Potential eligibility is not an approval. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C062** | A licensee receiving notice of a pending hospital-charity application or appeal may not collect or attempt collection during that pendency. | S008 .250(29)(b). | Receipt of notice is an express predicate. Resumption requires the pendency question to be resolved; no universal postjudgment exception is stated here. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C063** | The licensee charge rule restricts additions beyond principal to the stated lawful-interest/statutory-charge/suit-cost categories; the commercial written-fee exception is not ordinary consumer-fee authorization. | S008 .250(21)–(22). | No agreed, lawful, earned, or collectible fee is established. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C064** | Medical prejudgment interest charged or collected may not exceed 9%; existing accrual as of July 28, 2019 is subject to the express forward-accrual restriction. | S011 .010(2), .020(4); S025 §§5–6. | Ceiling only; entitlement, base, annualization, compounding, and day-count questions are not supplied. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C065** | Consumer judgments use the 9% rule from entry, except the written-contract branch specified in RCW 4.56.110(1); medical debt is included by the incorporated consumer definition. | S012 (1), (5); S013 (2)–(3). | No assertion that every medical judgment necessarily bears 9%, or that a higher contractual rate is lawful. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C066** | Public entities have a separate written-contract collection-agency route with prior attempted notice and a minimum elapsed period. | S008 .500(1)–(4). | No public institution or debt is classified; no transplantation to private medical debt. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C067** | Public-debt collection fees are subject to reasonableness, statutory presumptions, and specified benchmarks—not a universal medical-fee ceiling. | S008 .500(1)(b). | Interaction with medical-interest, charity, and RCW 43.17.240 remains held. |\n\n## 3E. Reporting, unenforceability, liens, and narrow enforcement\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C068** | A licensee may not report adverse medical-debt information to consumer credit reporting agencies or credit bureaus under current .250(28)(a)(iii). | S008; S024 §3. | The former waiting period is not current authorization to report later. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C069** | RCW 70.54.475 expressly makes medical debt void and unenforceable if its stated furnishing-violation predicate is met. | S009 .475(1). | Actor, medical-debt scope, prohibited furnishing, temporal application, and federal interface are not adjudicated. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C070** | RCW 70.41.400 prohibits specified hospital/professional-partner furnishing, attaches void-and-unenforceable treatment, and deems a violation a licensing-law violation. | S003 .400(2). | Applies within the complete section’s scope and exception. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C071** | Section .400 excludes the specified HMO-owned/operated hospital when providing prepaid care to the stated enrollees. | S003 .400(4); S007. | This section-specific exclusion is not imported into .475 or the Collection Agency Act. HMO qualification incorporation remains held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C072** | A covered consumer reporting agency may not make a consumer report containing medical debt under RCW 19.182.040(1)(g). | S010 .010, .020, .040(1)(g). | Definitions and report exclusions matter; no actual report is evaluated. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C073** | The exceptions in .040(2) expressly identify other paragraphs and do not include medical-debt paragraph (g). | S010 .040(2). | The monetary/employment exceptions are not transferred to medical debt. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C074** | A violation of .250/.260 in collecting a claim triggers .450’s loss of specified fees/interest for the licensee, client, and later collectors, while the section separately preserves principal. | S008 .450; S026 §3. | The principal proviso is not assumed to revive debt independently void under .475/.400. B016. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C075** | A plaintiff may not seek an arrest warrant for an act or omission relating to a medical-debt judgment unless it constitutes a state-law crime. | S014 (4); S025 §2. | Not a general immunity from every court duty or criminal law. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C076** | Chapter 60.44 addresses specified ambulance/hospital/professional services for traumatic injury and specified tort claims/recoveries; workers’ compensation recoveries are excluded. | S015 .010. | Not a general medical lien on all property. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C077** | Aggregate service liens for one person arising from one accident/event may not exceed 25% of the listed recovery measure. | S015 .010. | Value, allowable enforcement costs/fees, validity, and priority remain unestablished. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C078** | The lien statute requires specified disclosure and verified recording conditions, with the filing alternatives in Q028; enforcement by another actor invokes collection-agency conditions. | S015 .020–.030; S008 .100(4)(e); S040 §§1,3. | No recording, perfection, or enforcement capacity is determined. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C079** | Taking a note or entering a settlement does not automatically discharge the lien; .040/.050 specify payment, agreement, and written-release qualifications. | S015 .040–.050. | Lien release and discharge of the underlying obligation are kept distinct. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C080** | Section .060(1) contains a one-year-from-filing lien-enforcement period and a limited evidentiary rule for that statutory suit. | S015 .060(1). | Included only as the medical-lien interface; no general limitations rerun, date calculation, or actual evidentiary conclusion. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C081** | Following payment or qualifying settlement and acceptance, the lien claimant must provide the specified release within 30 days; unjustified delay, if found by the court in the stated suit, supports listed costs, fees, and damages. | S015 .060(2); S040 §2. | No automatic damages or completed release is presumed. |\n\n## 3F. Oversight and remedy boundaries\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C082** | The charity statute prohibits specified admission practices reducing access for uninsured/unable-to-pay or lower-payment patients and refusal based on unusually costly/prolonged care rather than available-care appropriateness. | S001 .060(1); S002 -010(10). | No treatment, admission, or statistical comparison is performed. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C083** | The statute prohibits denying emergency access based on ability to pay and limits transfers through its patient-request/resource and reasonable-transfer conditions. | S001 .060(2); S023 §3. | Full emergency-care definitions and federal EMTALA application are not represented as a complete treatment-law finding. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C084** | DOH monitors specified hospital practices, may refer possible noncompliance, reviews specified charity denials, and performs reporting functions. | S001 .060(3), (12)–(13); S002 -020(9)(d). | Referral, review, and reporting are not findings of liability or approval. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C085** | RCW 70.170.070(1) supplies misdemeanor, injunction, and DOH civil-penalty provisions with its stated violation/knowledge/duty and official-notice predicates. | S001 .070(1), notes. | Renumbered/repealed cross-references prevent treating every modern paragraph as mechanically resolved. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C086** | Admission/emergency violations have separate initial, subsequent-conviction, intentional, and further-violation penalty branches. | S001 .070(2)(a)–(d). | The different five-year and discretionary sanction conditions are retained in Q032. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C087** | WAC -090 states fixed filing/reporting penalties and a substitution rule for other civil penalties, while the statute uses ceilings/discretion and narrower cross-references. | S002 -090; S001 .070. | Reconciliation and validity/construction remain held; no automatic patient award or automatic maximum penalty. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C088** | Medical itemization/reporting and specified furnishing provisions expressly connect their violations to the CPA; the CAA also has a general CPA provision. | S008 .250(28)(b), .440; S009 .475(2); S003 .400(3). | Statutory public-interest/deceptive-practice treatment does not prove every private-remedy element. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C089** | RCW 19.86.090 requires injury to business/property by a covered violation for its private action and provides actual damages, specified costs/fees, injunction, and discretionary enhancement. | S016 .090; S028 §1. | Causation, standing, proof, judicial discretion, and forum incorporation remain necessary. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C090** | RCW 19.86.093 supplies public-interest routes; .170 contains specific regulated-transaction exclusions. | S016 .093, .170. | Neither ordinary licensure nor a medical label establishes a blanket CPA exclusion. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C091** | The CAA authorizes specified public injunction proceedings and incorporates chapter 18.235 for licensing/discipline. | S008 .460, .510. | Full administrative procedure, discipline, exhaustion, and complaint implementation remain open. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C092** | Hospital patient-rights rules include care/treatment complaints without retribution or denial of care and a timely complaint-resolution framework. | S017 -141. | Not expanded into a universal medical-billing retaliation claim. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C093** | This pass has not authenticated a universal medical-debt nonwaiver clause, an automatic implied private charity-care damages action, or debt erasure for every charity-procedure defect. | Read scope S001–S018; B017–B018, B030. | Express research hold, not proof that no additional right exists. |\n\n## 3G. Versions and additional reconciliation claims\n\n| Claim ID | Precise proposition | Sources/pinpoints | Conditions and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **S_WA-P15-C094** | The 2022 expanded charity law applies to care on/after July 1, 2022; earlier care remains governed by the preserved prior law. | S020 §4, p.8/index 8. | Collection date alone does not select the applicable assistance version. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C095** | The 2018 charity notice/income-time amendments took effect October 1, 2018. | S021 §3, p.5/index 5. | Not the enactment date of the 2022 tier structure. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C096** | The 2019 medical-interest/transfer enactment took effect July 28, 2019 and contains the express ongoing-interest transition. | S025 cover, §§5–7. | Historical application outside those clauses remains held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C097** | The 2025 medical-reporting enactment took effect July 27, 2025 and replaced the prior adverse-reporting waiting-period language. | S024 cover, §3(28)(a)(iii). | Retroactivity and older furnishing are not resolved merely by the effective date. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C098** | The 2025 emergency-transfer amendment was immediately effective April 29, 2025. | S023 cover, §6. | Limited to the amendment actually read. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C099** | The 2026 definition amendment used here was effective June 11, 2026, although other sections of that same act take effect January 1, 2027. | S029 cover, §§14–15. | Title-wide future timing is not imposed on §14. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C100** | RCW 70.02.010 displays a separate June 30, 2027 version; it is not used as current law here. | S005 version headings and selected definitions. | Original future application chain remains uncompleted. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C101** | The newly enacted chapter 4.74 framework has a January 1, 2027 effective date; its medical-complaint provision is a later inquiry, not a current pleading finding. | S030 §§5,12,15. | Full future procedure and transition application not completed. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C102** | The read histories of SB 5993, SB 5959, and HB 2250 did not show enacted laws; their proposed changes are not used as current restrictions or benefits. | S034–S036. | Search/history results do not prove absence of every other amendment. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C103** | Current displayed WAC text retains older criteria; the July 2026 instrument read is proposed, and the complete later supplemental instrument was not authenticated. | S002; S033; failure/discovery log. | No claim that a proposed replacement became operative. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C104** | The adopted 2021 budget expressly provided implementation funding for E2SHB 1272, addressing the specific-funding contingency in 2021 c.162 §7. | S039 §7; S041 §222(32). | This resolves that funding-source issue only. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C105** | The 2020 debt-buyer act expressly applies prospectively to qualifying purchases on/after June 11, 2020. | S026 §5. | Does not erase earlier-law duties or decide a purchase/application predicate. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C106** | The 2009 CPA amendment applies to causes accruing on/after July 26, 2009. | S028 §3. | No accrual event or limitation period is determined. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C107** | Federal medical/insurance/collection/privacy regimes were not substantively verified by this state component. | Scope boundary; dependency table below. | No federal permission, exemption, or remedy inferred. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C108** | WAC 308-29-080’s general satisfaction-notification rule includes a default 45-day meaning of promptness absent another applicable law. | S018 -080. | It is not current permission to furnish prohibited medical information; correction/deletion interaction held. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C109** | The CAA states that its remedies are cumulative/nonexclusive and that .250 violations are civil rather than penal. | S008 .900. | Does not authorize duplicate recovery or eliminate separate statutory predicates. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C110** | The read disclosure, assistance, and collection provisions do not establish a single general lawful hospital price, universal fee cap, or universally required payment plan. | S001, S002 -050, S011, S037. | A missing authenticated cap is not unlimited-charge permission. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C111** | The rule’s bad-debt definition excludes contractual adjustments and charges classified as charity care. | S002 -010(6), -020(10). | Accounting classification is not treated as a complete debt-discharge or insurance-liability decision. |\n| **S_WA-P15-C112** | The rule’s final sponsorship determination includes verification of third-party payment/denial and qualifying appeals having a reasonable chance of obtaining coverage. | S002 -010(20). | No insurance appeal’s merits or exhaustion is determined. |\n\n# 4. Complete relied-on quantity, relation, and trigger register\n\n**Counting convention:** Where the operative clause says *calendar days*, that unit is preserved. Where it says only *days*, this report does not silently supply business-day treatment, service extensions, weekend/holiday rules, or an inclusive/exclusive counting algorithm. “Within,” “after,” and “at least” are retained as source relations; no deadline is calculated.\n\n## 4A. Eligibility, assistance, assets, and information duties\n\n| ID | Quantity, base, or relation | Reference event / boundary / exception | Claims and authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Q001 | Hospital definition: continuous accommodation for **24 hours or more**; services to **two or more** persons unrelated to the operator. | Definition has listed institutional exclusions; not a provider-classification decision. | C002; S003 .020(9). |\n| Q002 | Rule family: **two or more** related persons living together. | Relationship categories are birth, marriage, adoption; no constructed household. | C005; S002 -010(18). |\n| Q003 | Higher-tier alternatives: system owns/operates **≥3** licensed acute hospitals; or acute hospital **>300** licensed beds in the most populous county; or acute hospital **>200** beds in a southern-border county with **≥450,000** residents. | “Over” is strict; “at least” includes equality. No population edition, county, or institutional facts selected. | C018; S001 .060(5)(a). |\n| Q004 | Higher tier: **≤300% FPL: full patient responsibility**; statutory **301–350%: 75% discount**; **351–400%: 50% discount**. | Family-size adjustment; partial discounts subject to permitted asset reduction. Fractional gaps/rounding unresolved. | C019–C021. |\n| Q005 | Other tier: **≤200% FPL: full patient responsibility**; **201–250%: 75% discount**; **251–300%: 50% discount**. | Same qualifications and fractional-boundary hold. | C022–C024. |\n| Q006 | Monetary disregard: first **$5,000** for an individual; **$8,000** for family of two; **$1,500** for each additional family member. Asset with early-withdrawal penalty: value **after the penalty has been paid**. | Statutory assistance-review base; no substituted family size or asset value. | C026; .060(5)(c)(ii)(A). |\n| Q007 | Vehicle disregard: **one** vehicle, plus a **second** if necessary for employment or medical purposes. Life-insurance exclusion: face value **≤$10,000**. | Primary-residence equity, specified retirement and burial assets also excluded without a numeric cap in the read clause. | C027. |\n| Q008 | Prior program ineligibility: **12 months**. | Requiring a program application deemed ineligible within that period is identified as an unreasonable burden; separate obvious/categorical ineligibility branch. | C017. |\n| Q009 | Alternative application-time income: application **within two years of service**, plus good-faith payment efforts and demonstrated eligibility. | Not a general application-expiration period. Boundary-counting details not specified here. | C031–C032. |\n| Q010 | Posting/summary/application language threshold: languages spoken by **more than 10%** of service-area population. Billing statement: English plus **second-most-spoken** language. | Different tests; >10% is strict. No demographic input selected. | C045–C047. |\n| Q011 | Income documents: **any one** of the enumerated alternatives may suffice when appropriately annualized. Monetary assets: **one current statement** sufficient. | No requirement to produce every listed document; no annualization performed. | C028, C036. |\n| Q012 | Documentation opportunity: **at least 14 calendar days**, or longer under specified need. | Initially qualifying determination; before final determination. | C039. |\n| Q013 | Final determination notice: **within 14 calendar days** after receipt of -030 information. | Includes financial responsibility; denial basis required. | C040. |\n| Q014 | Appeal request: **30 calendar days**; no external referral during first **14 days** of that period. | Appeal-finalization and separate transfer statute remain necessary. The rule calls the overall period calendar days; no computed endpoint supplied. | C041–C042. |\n| Q015 | Refund: excess paid above appropriate charity-adjusted charge, **within 30 days** after charity designation. | Eligibility at service; no zero balance or refund amount inferred. Clause does not separately label these days business/calendar. | C044. |\n| Q016 | Policy modification filing: **≥30 days before adoption**. DOH rejection mailed **within 14 calendar days of receipt**. Resubmission **within 14 days of the date of rejection notice**. | Mailing, receipt, and notice date are different events. | C048; S002 -070. |\n| Q017 | Charity-application reporting: **quarterly**, beginning **January 1, 2023**; prior-quarter submitted/completed/approved counts. | Administrative reporting, not an application decision deadline. | C049. |\n| Q018 | Older WAC criteria: **≤100%** full assistance; **101–200%** sliding discount; **>200%** discretionary classification. | Current displayed older text; not substituted for the later statutory minimums applicable to newer care. | C032, C053, C103. |\n| Q019 | Older illustrative schedule: uncovered hospital responsibility limited to **40% × (annual family income − 100%-FPL amount)**; alternative examples **101–133% →75%**, **134–166% →50%**, **167–200% →25%** discount. | These are the rule’s examples, with adjustment/negotiation qualifications. No zero floor, current universal formula, or numerical application added. | C053; S002 -050(2). |\n| Q020 | Older implementation instruction: **90 days from adoption of the rules**; examples contemplate **monthly** installments over a reasonable negotiated period without interest/late fees. | Historical implementation trigger, not a new patient deadline or universal payment-plan term. | C053. |\n\n## 4B. Collection, charges, liens, and remedies\n\n| ID | Quantity, relation, or period | Trigger / boundary / exception | Claims and authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Q021 | Transfer waiting period: **at least 120 days**. | After initial billing statement is **transmitted**; licensed-agency transfer, not every collection action. | C054; S009 .470. |\n| Q022 | Requested medical itemization: **free of charge**; pause **unless and until provided**. | Oral or written qualifying request; no fixed number of response days stated. | C057–C058. |\n| Q023 | Repeat request exception: **second or subsequent** request for information already provided; separate properly executed postjudgment-writ exception. | Applies to the itemization pause, not automatically to charity pendency. | C060. |\n| Q024 | Medical prejudgment rate ceiling: **9%**. | Existing accrual transition as of July 28, 2019. The medical clauses themselves do not supply compounding or day-count instructions; no calculation convention added. | C064. |\n| Q025 | Consumer-judgment rate: **9% from entry**, subject to the written-contract exception. | Lawful rate, contract terms, judgment wording, and judgment validity not established. | C065. |\n| Q026 | Commercial-claim fee exception: written-agreement fee **not exceeding 35%** of the amount due under its stated branch. | Not an ordinary consumer medical-fee authorization. | C063; S008 .250(21). |\n| Q027 | Public-debt reasonableness benchmarks: contingent fee **up to 50% of first $100,000** unpaid per account and **up to 35% above $100,000**; minimum fee of the full debt **up to $100 per account** reasonable; agreement presumptively reasonable. | Statutory reasonableness treatment, not universal hard caps or actual charge permission. Prior attempted notice plus **at least 30 days elapsed**. | C066–C067; .500. |\n| Q028 | Medical-lien aggregate: **≤25%** of the listed award/verdict/report/decision/decree/judgment/settlement for one person from one accident/event. | Workers’ compensation exclusion; no recovery base supplied. | C076–C077. |\n| Q029 | Lien notice: **within 20 days** after the specified injury/transport/care event, **or** before settlement and payment have been completed under the alternative. | Verified notice and recording/disclosure conditions remain; no filing instructions or date result. | C078; .020. |\n| Q030 | Lien enforcement: **within one year after filing**. | Special statutory lien action; no general debt-limitation conclusion. | C080; .060(1). |\n| Q031 | Lien release: **no later than 30 days** after payment, or settlement and acceptance, as specified. | Unjustified-delay remedy requires the stated court finding in the release action. | C081; .060(2). |\n| Q032 | General charity civil penalty: **not exceeding $1,000**; separate violations can arise for each day after official notice under the statute. | Violation/knowledge/duty predicates and administrative procedure remain necessary. | C085. |\n| Q033 | Admission/emergency branches: initial **≤$1,000**; subsequent within **five years following conviction ≤$3,000**; intentional subsequent branch may add **up to three years** of specified bond/certificate restrictions; further branch may add **up to one year** of specified program exclusion. | Exact conviction/intent and subsection references preserved; no stacking or mandatory sanction inferred. | C086; .070(2). |\n| Q034 | WAC filing/reporting penalty: **$1,000 per day** after official notice; authorized extensions defer the violation point. | Rule/statute reconciliation remains held. | C087; -090. |\n| Q035 | CPA enhancement: discretionary increase **up to three times actual damages**, with the statute’s **$25,000 increased-award limitation** for the stated branch. | Not an automatic $25,000 award, not automatic addition to every other remedy, and no damages calculation. | C089; .090. |\n| Q036 | General satisfaction-notification rule: promptness defaults to **45 days** absent another applicable law. | Medical furnishing prohibition and correction/deletion interface remain unresolved. | C108; S018 -080. |\n| Q037 | “Unusually costly/prolonged” rule definition: services exceeding **two standard deviations** above average charge and/or **three standard deviations** above average stay. | DOH discharge-database reference; no statistical input or treatment classification. | C082; S002 -010(10). |\n| Q038 | 2021 funding evidence: **$596,000 FY2022**, **$58,000 FY2023**, and **$64,000 hospital-data-account appropriation** expressly designated for implementation. | Historical legislative funding evidence only; not patient assistance amounts or a current benefits allocation. | C104; S041 §222(32). |\n| Q039 | Annual HHS table, income bands, and asset thresholds | No household dollar threshold, financial input, discount result, interest amount, or remedy amount calculated. | C030; all quantitative holds above. |\n| Q040 | Unspecified procedural counting | No general inclusive/exclusive date algorithm, holiday rule, mailing extension, rounding rule, or universal resumption date authenticated. | Applies throughout; relevant next inquiries in B004, B007, B011–B014, B019. |\n\n## 4C. Version and application register\n\n| Version item | Source-stated date or relation | Legal significance and retained limit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2015 medical-lien amendments | Effective **July 24, 2015**. | S040; does not authenticate every older lien amendment. |\n| 2018 charity amendments | Effective **October 1, 2018**. | S021; preprinted statements existing on that date have a specific notice exception. |\n| 2019 medical-debt act | Effective **July 28, 2019**. | S025; existing-interest forward-accrual clause separately read. |\n| 2019 consumer-judgment amendment | Effective **July 28, 2019**. | S027; no historical judgment classification. |\n| 2020 debt-buyer act | Effective **June 11, 2020**; qualifying purchases on/after that date. | S026; expressly prospective. |\n| 2021 transparency act | Effective **July 25, 2021**; specific funding required by **June 30, 2021**. | S039/S041 resolve the funding condition through an adopted appropriation effective May 18, 2021. |\n| 2022 charity act | Effective **June 9, 2022**; expanded assistance applies to care **on/after July 1, 2022**. | S020 §4 preserves prior law for earlier care. The separate study provision expires **January 1, 2027**; that is not expiration of charity assistance. |\n| Residency interpretation notice | Effective **September 18, 2023** as stated in notice. | S032; full interpretation remains unread. |\n| 2024 definitions | Effective **June 6, 2024**. | S022, selected definitions only. |\n| 2025 emergency-transfer amendment | Effective **April 29, 2025**. | S023; immediate-effect clause read. |\n| 2025 reporting act | Effective **July 27, 2025**. | S024; no automatic retroactivity finding. |\n| 2026 poverty publication | Effective **January 13, 2026**, unless program specifies otherwise. | S031; not a selected state eligibility calculation. |\n| 2026 definition amendment | §14 effective **June 11, 2026**; §§1–13 **January 1, 2027**. | S029; different sections have different timing. |\n| Future consumer-debt procedure | Effective **January 1, 2027**. | S030; future only. |\n| Future 70.02 definition display | **June 30, 2027**. | S005; original future application chain held. |\n| Older charity rules | Material credits show **March 17, 1991** and **July 2, 1994** effective dates. | Current codified bodies read; scanned original-rule verification incomplete. |\n| 2026 rulemaking | July proposal filed **July 30, 2026**; later October proposal discovery described below. | Proposal/adoption distinction preserved; no proposed effective date applied. |\n| CPA amendment | Effective and applicable to causes accruing **on/after July 26, 2009**. | S028; no accrual analysis. |\n\n# 5. Conditional branches and exact remaining inquiries\n\nThese branches identify missing legal predicates. They are not instructions for an actual application, dispute, collection, or proceeding.\n\n| Branch | Supported conditional consequence | Missing predicate / adverse inference to avoid | Exact next generic authority inquiry |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **B001 — Hospital and professional scope** | Hospital charity law and the professional-service exclusion operate by their actual definitions and billing conditions. C001–C003. | Do not equate hospital location, professional affiliation, or one statement with coverage of every charge. | Complete any necessary generic licensing-category incorporation and authoritative interpretation of WAC -050(3); no institution lookup. |\n| **B002 — Family, guarantor, income** | Rule definitions govern the identified assistance inquiry. C004–C006. | Do not substitute an insurance household, tax household, or invented aggregation rule. | Generic DOH interpretation reconciling single individuals, guarantors, family composition, and current statute. |\n| **B003 — Institutional assistance tier** | Statutory tier follows one of the express institutional alternatives. C018–C024. | No default assignment to either tier; no unstated population reference date. | Generic interpretation of ownership/system, licensed-bed, and population-reference criteria; factual tier assignment remains excluded. |\n| **B004 — FPL year and fractional bands** | Statutory percentages operate against the legally applicable family-size guideline. | Do not round a fractional percentage into a stated band or automatically use the newest annual table for earlier care. | Official generic guidance on guideline-year selection, fractional bands, annualization, and rounding consistent with .060(10). |\n| **B005 — Coverage and cooperation** | Assistance to obtain qualified retroactive coverage is required; reasonable noncooperation can affect the specific statutory obligation. | Do not infer eligibility or impose applications for obviously ineligible programs. | Chapter 74.09 and applicable generic coverage/appeal rules; complete 26 U.S.C. 5000A health-sharing definition only if that branch is needed. |\n| **B006 — Care date selects version** | Care on/after the statutory application date receives the expanded framework. | A later bill, assignment, or collection date does not itself establish the assistance version. | Read preserved pre-July-2022 law only for a separate historical-law inquiry. |\n| **B007 — Older WAC cross-references** | Current statute supplies expanded minimums; older procedural text remains visible. | Do not reduce statutory aid to old bands or automatically extend every old deposit/appeal/refund cross-reference without authority. | Authenticate final amended rules or a complete formal DOH interpretation reconciling -020/-040/-050 with .060(5). |\n| **B008 — DSH clinic exception** | -020(1)(e) states a limited exception subject to its notice conditions. | Do not treat every hospital clinic as exempt from screening or all charity obligations. | Read the indispensable generic DSH definition/identification authority and exact exception interpretation. |\n| **B009 — Documentation** | One listed document, obvious-indigency treatment, and unavailable-document statements are separate branches. | Do not demand every document or label a generic procedure universally presumptive. | Current final rule/formal interpretation on evidence sufficiency and reasonable verification, without constructing an application. |\n| **B010 — Residency/immigration** | Official adoption notice announces the income-based geographic interpretation. | Do not treat the inaccessible full interpretation as read; do not infer a complete immigration/citizenship rule. | Obtain CC23-01 through a readable ordinary official route and authenticate any later adopted change. |\n| **B011 — Hospital versus collector pendency** | Hospital screening/appeal duties and licensee received-notice duties are distinct. | Do not assume every actor has received notice or that every pending matter invokes the same pause. | Generic interpretation of receipt, pendency, finalization, and hospital/assignee coordination. |\n| **B012 — Itemization exceptions** | The itemization pause has payment-plan, repeated-information, and properly executed writ qualifications. | Do not treat a writ as valid or transfer its exception to charity pendency. | Complete generic authority on interaction of .250(28) and (29); actual writ validity remains excluded. |\n| **B013 — Transfer timing** | Licensed-agency transfer has the 120-day transmission trigger. | Do not treat 14-day appeal language as permission to transfer sooner, or 120 days as permission to report. | Generic interpretation of transfer/assignment/sale and initial-statement transmission where necessary. |\n| **B014 — Charges and public debts** | Medical interest, CAA fee restrictions, and public-debt fees have different bases. | A cap, agreement, or public fee presumption does not establish an earned lawful medical charge. | RCW 43.17.240 and formal interpretation of public medical-debt interaction; lawful interest accrual/base/compounding remain separate. |\n| **B015 — Reporting definitions and corrections** | Current medical furnishing/report-content restrictions apply within their respective definitions. | Do not import HMO .400 exception elsewhere or treat old satisfaction-reporting rules as permission to report medical debt. | Generic statutory reconciliation of correction/deletion/satisfaction communications, report exclusions, and HMO incorporation. |\n| **B016 — Conditional unenforceability** | A qualifying violation can invoke express void-and-unenforceable text. | No automatic retroactivity, refund, damages, or revival of principal through .450’s proviso. | Complete generic interpretation of .475/.400, temporal reach, .450 interaction, and federal preemption. |\n| **B017 — Private CPA recovery** | Express statutory CPA treatment can satisfy specified public-interest/deceptive-practice components. | Do not infer business/property injury, causation, standing, or an award. | Complete generic CPA remedial/incorporation provisions; judicial construction remains outside this pass. |\n| **B018 — Charity penalties** | Statute and rule supply sanctions with different wording and references. | No automatic fixed sanction, private award, or expansion of a stale cross-reference. | Formal rule/statute reconciliation and applicable chapter 34.05 administrative procedure. |\n| **B019 — Medical liens** | A qualifying traumatic-injury recovery may be subject to the defined lien route. | No general lien on every asset, automatic priority, perfected lien, or calculable recovery share. | Generic lien-priority, notice, fee-base, release, and charity-pendency interpretation; no records or actual recovery. |\n| **B020 — Assignment and refunds** | The rule provides a conditional excess-payment refund. | Do not assume who must refund after assignment, or that application-time-only eligibility fits the service-time refund clause. | Generic authority on hospital/assignee refund allocation and newer statutory income-time interaction. |\n| **B021 — Collection actor** | CAA licensee duties depend on the statutory actor category. | Original creditor, affiliate, billing vendor, lawyer, and out-of-state collector labels are insufficient alone. | Complete relevant generic licensing/FDCPA incorporation in a separate scope inquiry; no provider/license lookup. |\n| **B022 — Future procedure** | Enacted future chapter 4.74 must be treated separately from current law. | No current medical pleading obligation inferred from January 2027 text. | Complete future effective/application/transition clauses and medical complaint provision when that later component is authorized. |\n| **B023 — Rulemaking currency** | The read July instrument is a proposal; the displayed code retains old rules. | An intended adoption date, search excerpt, or later inaccessible page is not an operative final order. | Authenticate the exact supplemental WSR identity and any final CR-103/adoption order through an ordinary official route. |\n| **B024 — Federal hospital duties** | State hospital duties are established only to the read state-law extent. | No federal tax-exempt-hospital or emergency-care outcome inferred. | Complete 26 U.S.C. 501(r), 26 C.F.R. 1.501(r)-1 through -7, and 42 U.S.C. 1395dd scope/exceptions in separate inquiries. |\n| **B025 — Insurance and surprise billing** | Insurance liability and charity responsibility remain separate categories. | No EOB, coverage, network, surprise-billing, or balance-billing conclusion. | Complete applicable chapter 48.49 RCW, chapter 48.43 coverage provisions, and relevant No Surprises Act/regulations. |\n| **B026 — Federal reporting/collection** | State reporting and CAA findings stand only within the read state texts. | No FCRA preemption, FDCPA coverage, Reg F compliance, or federal medical-reporting-rule status conclusion. | Complete 15 U.S.C. 1681-series preemption/reporting provisions; 1692a, 1692f, 1692g and relevant Regulation F clauses. Any guidance relied upon later requires withdrawal/status review. |\n| **B027 — Public benefits, bankruptcy, military, disability, privacy** | These remain independent dependencies. | No federal eligibility, discharge, stay, rate protection, privacy exception, or accommodation finding. | Separate complete Medicare/Medicaid, Bankruptcy Code, SCRA, disability/language-access, HIPAA, and Washington health-data/privacy provisions as relevant. |\n| **B028 — Territorial and special legal systems** | Washington statutory roles are described; actual territorial nexus is held. | No uniform local/tribal/interstate result or contract choice-of-law conclusion. | Generic jurisdiction, tribal, interstate, local, and contract-incorporation authority; no entity or record investigation. |\n| **B029 — Nonhospital medical sectors** | Broad medical-debt language may reach beyond hospital charity care. | No automatic dental, ambulance, clinic, or professional charity entitlement or exclusion. | Relevant Title 18/ambulance and sector-specific billing statutes, with complete provider definitions and exceptions. |\n| **B030 — Nonwaiver and retaliation** | The read hospital rule protects the specified care/treatment complaint process. | Do not turn it into every conceivable billing-retaliation or nonwaiver cause. | Exact generic nonwaiver/retaliation statutes and private-remedy authority, if separately pursued. |\n\n# 6. Wholly blank conceptual worksheet\n\nNo factual or legal result is populated.\n\n| Analytical field | Entry |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governing statutory component |  |\n| Source identifier and exact subsection |  |\n| Version and application clause |  |\n| Institutional category predicate |  |\n| Charge/service category predicate |  |\n| Applicable provider/facility definition |  |\n| Applicable collection-actor definition |  |\n| Third-party-coverage incorporation |  |\n| Family/income definition authority |  |\n| Poverty-guideline edition authority |  |\n| Institutional-tier authority |  |\n| Asset-consideration authority |  |\n| Screening/determination stage |  |\n| Documentation rule |  |\n| Notice or receipt trigger |  |\n| Collection-pause provision |  |\n| Exception or competing provision |  |\n| Billing/itemization authority |  |\n| Charge/interest authority |  |\n| Reporting restriction |  |\n| Assignment/refund dependency |  |\n| Remedy and required predicates |  |\n| Counting or rounding authority |  |\n| Unresolved incorporation |  |\n| Exact next generic authority inquiry |  |\n\n# 7. Granular scope coverage and gaps\n\n“Answered” means the identified public text was read and reported. It does **not** mean an actual legal application or broader dossier acceptance.\n\n| Requested scope item | Disposition | Source/claim/branch links | Exact retained gap or exclusion |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **1 — Hospital-charity statutory scope** | Answered, text only | S001–S004; C001–C003; B001 | Actual institution/care classification excluded. |\n| 1 — Acute versus behavioral hospital | Answered with incorporation limits | C002; S003–S004 | Complete special licensing and tribal attestation regime not completed. |\n| 1 — Professional/clinic/nonhospital charges | Partial | C003, C010; B001, B008, B029 | Professional-service exception read; all nonhospital sector laws remain separate. |\n| 1 — Medical debt versus charity care | Answered | C001, C008–C010 | No debt or charge classified. |\n| 1 — Insurance/third-party coverage | Partial | C007, C015–C017, C112 | Full coverage/appeal and federal definitions held. |\n| 1 — Residency/territorial conditions | Partial | S032; C013; B010, B028 | Full residency interpretation inaccessible; immigration and actual nexus held. |\n| 1 — Collection actor/licensee/original creditor | Answered to definitions | C011–C012; B021 | Complete licensing and federal out-of-state incorporation not completed. |\n| **2 — Mandatory assistance policy and screening** | Answered | C014–C017, C033–C035 | New statutory bands versus old rule cross-references remain B007. |\n| 2 — Presumptive/obvious-indigency treatment | Answered narrowly | C037–C038; B009 | No universal presumptive algorithm authenticated. |\n| 2 — Institutional tiers | Answered as legal predicates | C018–C024 | No tier assignment or population/bed facts. |\n| 2 — Income/family/FPL definitions | Partial | C004–C006, C030–C032 | Fractional bands, year selection, household construction, rounding held. |\n| 2 — Annual poverty publication | Answered, publication only | S031; C030 | No monetary threshold selected. |\n| 2 — Asset thresholds/exclusions | Answered | C025–C029; Q006–Q007 | CMS reporting incorporation and actual asset treatment held. |\n| 2 — Language/posting/web/bill notice | Answered | C045–C047 | Complete federal/state language-access overlay held. |\n| 2 — Documentation and burden | Answered | C028, C036–C039 | Actual sufficiency excluded. |\n| 2 — Final determination | Answered | C040, C112 | Insurance appeal merits and factual completion held. |\n| 2 — Appeal/review | Answered with version hold | C041–C042 | Higher-band application of older cross-reference unresolved. |\n| 2 — Pending collection limitations | Answered by separate actor/trigger | C033–C035, C042, C062 | Intersections retained in B011–B013. |\n| **3 — Estimate/charge information** | Answered narrowly | C050–C052 | Not full price-transparency, insurance, or itemized-billing law. |\n| 3 — Hospital/professional billing distinction | Answered | C003, C051–C052 | Actual separation, ownership, and fee entitlement excluded. |\n| 3 — Charity adjustment and payment plans | Answered with old-rule qualification | C019–C029, C053 | No universal current payment formula or general plan entitlement. |\n| 3 — Refunds | Partial | C044; B007, B020 | Assignment allocation and newer-band/service-time interaction held. |\n| 3 — Interest and added charges | Answered to read limits | C063–C067 | Entitlement, lawful base, compounding, contracts, public-interest incorporation held. |\n| 3 — Insured/uninsured/underinsured liability | Partial | C001, C007, C015–C017 | No coverage determination or full insurance statute investigation. |\n| **4 — Agency notices and itemization** | Answered | C055–C058 | No notice or request prepared. |\n| 4 — Pause/resumption and repeat requests | Answered with interaction holds | C057–C062 | Separate exceptions retained; actual pendency/receipt excluded. |\n| 4 — Assignment/transfer timing | Answered | C054 | Exact sale/refinancing/transfer characterization remains B013. |\n| 4 — Interest/fees after assignment | Answered to statutory restrictions | C063–C067, C074 | No actual lawful charge or collectible amount. |\n| 4 — Suit/enforceability | Partial, medical-specific only | C069–C075, C101 | Full ordinary court, debt-buyer pleading, judgment validity, and future procedure excluded. |\n| 4 — Garnishment interface | Answered narrowly | C060, C062, C075 | No wage/bank exemption rerun; valid-writ predicate held. |\n| 4 — Medical lien | Answered statutory route | C076–C081 | Ownership, perfection, priority, recovery, and actual filing excluded. |\n| 4 — Credit reporting | Answered state text; federal interface open | C068–C073, C108 | FCRA/preemption, correction/deletion, temporal construction held. |\n| **5 — DOH oversight and assistance appeal** | Answered | C041–C042, C048–C049, C084–C087 | Complete administrative procedure and actual review outcome held. |\n| 5 — CPA and fee-forfeiture remedies | Answered to conditions | C074, C088–C091, C109 | Standing, causation, proof, recovery, duplication, and judicial construction held. |\n| 5 — Knowledge/intent and penalty predicates | Answered with reconciliation gap | C085–C087; Q032–Q035 | Stale cross-references and fixed-rule/discretionary-statute interaction open. |\n| 5 — Nonwaiver/anti-retaliation | Partial | C092–C093; B030 | Only specific patient-rights text authenticated; universal theory not established. |\n| **6 — Nonhospital professional/dental/ambulance** | Identified, separate | B029 | Complete sector-specific laws remain required. |\n| 6 — Surprise/balance billing and insurance | Excluded beyond indispensable definitions | B025 | No EOB/plan/network/coverage facts or complete regime. |\n| 6 — Federal 501(r)/EMTALA/No Surprises | Held | B024–B025 | Complete operative federal scope and exceptions not read. |\n| 6 — FCRA/FDCPA/Reg F | Held | B026 | No full federal classification or current federal rule-status finding. |\n| 6 — Benefits/bankruptcy/military/disability/privacy | Held | B027 | Separate complete generic inquiries required. |\n| 6 — CFPB guidance withdrawal | Not relied upon | C107; B026 | No circular, bulletin, advisory opinion, or federal medical-reporting rule used as law. |\n| 6 — Local/tribal/interstate/contracts | Held | B028 | No uniformity or actual nexus conclusion. |\n| 6 — Judicial construction | Excluded throughout | All branches | No cases, opinions, dockets, parties, or enforcement records investigated. |\n| **7 — Current official operative bodies** | Answered within recorded read bounds | S001–S019, S037 | Codified display is not an exhaustive later-amendment or judicial-status certification. |\n| 7 — Material adopted originals | Answered substantially | S020–S030, S038–S041 | Older rule originals and specified historical incorporations remain gaps. |\n| 7 — Proposed/future status | Answered with precise latest-proposal gap | C099–C103 | October supplemental proposal identity/body not fully authenticated. |\n| 7 — Direct URLs/pinpoints/read extent | Supplied visibly | Source register | Parsed PDFs not represented as pixels. |\n| 7 — Failures/alternative routes | Supplied visibly | Log below | One inadvertent duplicate failed route disclosed. |\n| Registry dimension 6 and entire Washington dossier | **Not accepted or completed by this pass** | Scope boundary | All other sectors, prior holds, and unexamined regimes remain open. |\n\n# 8. Read, search, discovery, and failure log\n\n## 8A. Read and search activity\n\nThis log records the actual research routes and topics. The source register provides the complete substantive read bounds; a chapter retrieval does not imply every section was relied upon.\n\n| Log ID | Route/topic | Result and use |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| R001 | Official RCW 70.170 chapter and individual-section routes | Individual .020/.060/.070 bodies and notes read; chapter-route failure separately logged. |\n| R002 | Official WAC 246-453 chapter and individual sections | Current displayed chapter read; individual definitions/procedure/criteria/schedule/policy/penalty sections checked. |\n| R003 | Linked 2022 and 2018 session laws | Expanded tiers, service-date application, notice amendments, and effective clauses authenticated. |\n| R004 | Linked 2024/2025 hospital-definition and emergency-care originals | Selected incorporated definitions and changed operative clauses authenticated without full hospital-law expansion. |\n| R005 | Hospital, behavioral-hospital, health-care-provider/facility, and HMO definition routes | Relevant complete definitions read; incomplete further incorporations registered. |\n| R006 | Medical-debt/collection-agency definitions and prohibited-practice clauses | Current medical notices, itemization, pauses, reporting, fee restrictions, and exceptions read. |\n| R007 | Current transfer/furnishing statutes and 2025 medical-debt original | 120-day transfer rule distinguished from reporting prohibition and conditional unenforceability. |\n| R008 | Consumer-report definitions, purposes, prohibited information, and exceptions | Complete relied-on state reporting clauses read; no federal reporting status imported. |\n| R009 | Medical interest, consumer-judgment interest, execution definitions, and arrest limitation | Medical-specific interfaces read; no ordinary judgment-clock or garnishment redo. |\n| R010 | General collection fee forfeiture, public-debt collection, injunction, discipline incorporation | Complete selected clauses read; public fee benchmarks distinguished from consumer authority. |\n| R011 | Charge estimates, hospital discharge information, and provider-based clinic fees | Complete current sections and material 2009/2021 originals read. |\n| R012 | Medical-lien individual sections and 2015 original | Complete .010–.060 and material amendment read; no lien record or actual recovery. |\n| R013 | CPA/private remedy/public-interest/exclusion sections and hospital patient rights | Complete selected operative clauses read; broader remedies and construction held. |\n| R014 | HHS 2026 poverty publication through ordinary official routes | Complete Federal Register notice and official PDF read; no financial input selected. |\n| R015 | Generic residency/geographic-restriction interpretation search | Official WSR notice read; underlying interpretation inaccessible. |\n| R016 | 2026 charity-rule proposals, agency rulemaking pages, and WSR agency table | July proposal status read; later supplemental proposal remained discovery/access gap. |\n| R017 | 2026 medical-debt and charity-related legislative-status searches | SB 5993/SB 5959/HB 2250 histories read as status evidence, not enacted law. |\n| R018 | 2026 adopted definition/future debt-action originals | Material effective/transition clauses distinguished; future text not applied currently. |\n| R019 | 2021 transparency-act funding condition | Adopted budget §222(32) read and linked to the act’s specific-funding condition. |\n| R020 | Historical WAC agency filing/index routes | Index entries and current credits read; original scan/large-PDF limitations logged. |\n| R021 | Final targeted cross-checks | Current tier/asset language, itemization/pendency exceptions, reporting exceptions, interest, liens, and penalty wording rechecked. |\n| R022 | Excluded research | No actual provider, hospital roster, license status, private policy, application, bill, health record, credit report, contract, case/opinion/docket, or enforcement record investigated. No CFPB guidance relied upon. |\n\n## 8B. Discovery-only material and unresolved source identities\n\n| Discovery item | Literal route | Disposition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2026 WAC agency table | [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Read as an index showing proposal entries. Not an adoption order or independent operative text. |\n| DOH later charity-rule progress page | [https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress](https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Search output described an October 20, 2026 supplemental proposal, but displayed conflicting 26-21-270 and 26-21-070 identifiers. Page body was inaccessible. Neither identifier is treated as a fully read operative instrument. |\n| Historical DOH filing index | [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm) | Relevant 1991/1994 entries read as discovery and provenance only. |\n| Proposed 2021 budget amendment returned during funding search | Generic legislative search result | Not used as funding proof. The adopted session law in S041 supplied that proof. |\n| Generic agency guides | DOH and Attorney General routes below | Search excerpts were not elevated into completed substantive readings. |\n\n## 8C. Bounded access and failure log\n\n| Failure ID | Exact route and observed limitation | Different ordinary route / final disposition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| F001 | [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true) — internal/inaccessible response. | Individual .020/.060/.070 pages succeeded. Only those read bodies resolve the gap. |\n| F002 | [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090) — individual route failed. | Official full chapter succeeded; complete .090 read there. |\n| F003 | [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true) — chapter route failed. | Individual .010–.060 pages succeeded. |\n| F004 | [https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500](https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500) — inaccessible. | Full chapter route succeeded and supplied complete .500. **The failed individual route was inadvertently retried once during final checking and failed again; this was a process deviation from the requested no-identical-retry limit.** No bypass or further retry occurred. |\n| F005 | [https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine=&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc](https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc&utm_source=chatgpt.com) — 403. | Official July WSR proposal and legislative WAC table readable; latest adoption not established. |\n| F006 | DOH charity-rule progress URL in discovery table — 403. | Ordinary official route [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm) also inaccessible. Exact alternate-identifier search did not yield a readable official body. Gap retained. |\n| F007 | [https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf](https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — 403. | WSR 23-19-065 adoption notice readable. It does not replace a complete reading of the underlying interpretation. |\n| F008 | HHS ASPE poverty-guideline page — 403. | Federal Register HTML and GovInfo official PDF succeeded; complete 2026 notice read. |\n| F009 | [https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15](https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — no usable indexed body returned. | Ordinary public GovInfo document PDF succeeded. |\n| F010 | [https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care](https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — 403. | Current statutes/rules supplied core duties. Guide-specific explanations, rounding, and operational complaint information not treated as read. |\n| F011 | [https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare](https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — 403. | No guide-based immigration or complete consumer-remedy conclusion adopted. |\n| F012 | [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf) — scan returned no operative parsed text. | Screenshot attempts for pages 0–2 returned placeholders rather than viewable image content. **No pixel reading claimed.** Current rule bodies and credits remain the readable evidence. |\n| F013 | [https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) — large-document/content-length failure. | Index and current rule credits read; complete adopted original remains held. |\n| F014 | Some long retrieval batches exceeded output display limits. | Relevant operative portions were reopened in bounded segments. Unseen output was not treated as read, and no PDF parsing was represented as visual inspection. |\n\n# 9. Precise remaining gaps and researcher self-check\n\n## Remaining evidence gaps\n\nThe consequential open items are:\n\n1. **Rule reconciliation:** complete operative authority reconciling old WAC income references with the expanded statutory tiers, particularly deposits, appeals, refunds, and any-time designation.\n2. **Latest rulemaking:** the complete October 2026 supplemental proposal, its correct WSR identifier, and any final adoption/effective order. Discovery of a proposal does not establish adoption.\n3. **Residency:** the full CC23-01 interpretation and any later operative change; immigration/citizenship questions were not completed from inaccessible guides.\n4. **Definitions/incorporations:** DSH clinic classification; full HMO qualification; health-care-sharing-ministry and federal facility incorporations; relevant tribal licensing provisions; full coverage and reasonable-appeal rules.\n5. **Financial relations:** fractional FPL bands, guideline-year selection, rounding, any asset-reduction formula, interest entitlement/base/compounding, and public-medical-debt fee interaction.\n6. **Collection intersections:** exact interaction of itemization exceptions, charity pendency, transfer/sale, assignment, refunds, reporting correction/deletion, fee forfeiture, and conditional unenforceability.\n7. **Remedies:** stale charity-penalty cross-references, rule/statute penalty reconciliation, complete administrative procedure, private charity-law causes, nonwaiver, retaliation, and judicial construction.\n8. **Separate regimes:** nonhospital sectors, insurance/surprise billing, federal hospital/benefit/reporting/collection/privacy/disability/military/bankruptcy law, local/tribal/interstate law, and actual application.\n\n## Researcher self-check — not independent review\n\n- **Actual readings:** The current sections, selected adopted originals, complete poverty notice, and bounded official interpretation/status materials are identified in the source register with exact read extents.\n- **Not read as complete:** The inaccessible interpretation, original scanned charity rules, latest supplemental proposal, full federal incorporations, all historical enactments, full licensing systems, and judicial construction were not represented as completed.\n- **Version discipline:** The 2022 service-date application clause, 2025 reporting amendment, 2026 definition amendment, 2021 funding contingency, and future-effective provisions were distinguished. Publication, access, proposal, and legal effective dates were not merged.\n- **No prior merits imported:** Earlier pass descriptions were used solely to preserve exclusions and holds. No prior substantive finding supplied the legal foundation here.\n- **No actual or invented matter:** No person, hospital, professional, household, diagnosis, bill, account, income, asset, insurance plan, application, payment, dispute, case, or transaction was evaluated or constructed.\n- **No operational work:** No application, notice, complaint, contact, filing, negotiation, payment, refund request, service action, or publication was performed.\n- **No numerical application:** The report states statutory quantities and symbolic relations only. The worksheet is blank.\n- **Access-method deviation disclosed:** F004 records the one inadvertent duplicate failed route. No access-control bypass, authentication, API, hidden endpoint, or repeated variant probing was used.\n- **Federal status restraint:** No CFPB circular, bulletin, advisory opinion, or federal medical-reporting rule was relied upon. No withdrawn-guidance review or complete federal status verification is claimed.\n- **Acceptance boundary:** This report completes the visible research deliverable for this focused component with its recorded holds. It does not establish Washington-wide, registry-dimension-6, A066, parent, operational, or publication acceptance.\n\nEND S_WA PASS-15.\n\n","tables":[{"headers":["Category or distinction","Source-supported treatment in this pass","Boundary retained"],"index":0,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Category or distinction","Source-supported treatment in this pass","Boundary retained"],["Hospital charity care versus all medical debt","Charity care concerns qualifying medically necessary hospital care and the patient-responsibility portion after relevant third-party coverage. The medical-debt definition used in collection/reporting law is broader. C001–C010.","A nonhospital bill is not automatically covered by hospital charity care, and it is not automatically outside medical-debt collection protections."],["Hospital versus professional services","The hospital definitions and licensing gateways matter. WAC 246-453-050(3) separately addresses professional services of hospital medical staff when individually submitted or separately identified in hospital billing. C002–C003.","A hospital location or a combined statement does not establish that every charge receives the same charity treatment."],["Insurance versus charity assistance","Third-party coverage and charity assistance are separate inquiries. Pending negligence recoveries do not postpone charity consideration under the statute. C007, C015–C017, C112.","No insurance entitlement, exhaustion finding, coverage appeal, or balance-billing result is determined."],["Full assistance versus partial discount","The statute provides full patient-responsibility assistance at specified income levels and partial discounts in higher bands. Its asset-reduction language attaches to the partial-discount provisions. C018–C029.","No hospital tier, family size, income, asset value, or percentage calculation is supplied."],["Hospital collection versus licensed agency collection","Hospitals have screening and determination duties. RCW 19.16.250 applies by its stated licensee/employee scope. C011–C012, C033–C044, C055–C062.","An original creditor is not automatically a collection-agency licensee; neither label establishes actual coverage."],["Itemization pause versus charity-pendency pause","Itemization requests trigger RCW 19.16.250(28)(a)(ii), including its own exceptions. Hospital charity pendency is addressed separately in subsection (29)(b), conditioned on notice to the licensee. C057–C062.","The exceptions are not interchangeable."],["Debt transfer versus reporting","RCW 70.54.470 regulates transfer timing to licensed collection agencies. Current reporting provisions impose separate restrictions. C054, C068–C073.","The transfer waiting period does not authorize later reporting."],["Reporting prohibition versus debt cancellation","Some reporting provisions expressly attach void-and-unenforceable consequences to a violation; the CRA-content prohibition is a different provision. C068–C074.","A prohibited report, a qualifying violation, debt unenforceability, refund entitlement, and damages are not treated as identical findings."],["Prejudgment versus postjudgment interest","Medical prejudgment interest has a specific ceiling. Consumer-judgment interest has a separate rule with a written-contract exception. C064–C065.","No accrual date, lawful underlying interest entitlement, compounding convention, or judgment predicate is determined."],["Ordinary medical collection versus traumatic-injury lien","Chapter 60.44 reaches specified claims or recoveries arising from traumatic injury, subject to its conditions. C076–C081.","It is not a general lien on every asset or every medical bill."],["Administrative oversight versus private recovery","DOH oversight, charity appeals, collection-agency regulation, statutory fee forfeiture, and CPA recovery have different functions. C082–C093.","No violation, private standing, damages, penalty, or award is established."],["Current enactment versus proposed or future text","The 2025 reporting amendments are distinct from 2026 proposals and future-effective debt-action provisions. 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Used to bound, not establish, the .400 HMO exception. \napp.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S008","Washington Legislature, Collection Agency Act, chapter 19.16 RCW. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true","Complete .100; .250 introduction and relied-on (8), (9), (15), (16), (21), (22), (27)–(29); complete .440, .450, .460, .470, .480, .500, .510, .900.","Current code. Material credits: 2025 c.145 §§1,3; 2019 c.227 §§3,4; .450 amendment in 2020 c.30; .500 credits 2011 c.57 §2, 1997 c.387 §1, 1982 c.65 §1. 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Used only for consumer-judgment-interest and definition history, not a garnishment rerun. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"],["S_WA-P15-S028","Washington Legislature, 2009 c.371, SSB 5531. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1","Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2.","Enacted; effective July 26, 2009; application to causes accruing on/after that date. No accrual analysis performed. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"],["S_WA-P15-S029","Washington Legislature, 2026 c.165, SSB 6248. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14","Cover; complete relied-on §14(28)–(31), p.19/index 19; §15 effective provision, pp.23–24/indexes 23–24.","§14 effective June 11, 2026; §§1–13 effective January 1, 2027. Future portions not applied. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+2"],["S_WA-P15-S030","Washington Legislature, 2026 c.107, SSB 5720; future chapter 4.74 RCW. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5720-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+107+s+4; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.74&full=true","Original §5(3)(b), p.4/index 4; §12 transition, p.8/index 8; §15 effective clause, p.10/index 10. Selected future codified definitions and procedure read.","Enacted future; effective January 1, 2027. Included as a future dependency, not a complete current or future court-procedure finding. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"],["S_WA-P15-S031","U.S. HHS, 2026 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines, 91 FR 1797–1798. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-15/pdf/2026-00755.pdf; same instrument’s HTML https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/15/2026-00755/annual-update-of-the-hhs-poverty-guidelines","Complete HHS notice on printed pp.1797–1798/PDF indexes 0–1, including tables and scope notes.","Effective January 13, 2026 unless a program specifies otherwise. No dollar threshold selected or calculated; state program definitions and relevant income-time rule remain necessary. Formats are one instrument. \ngovinfo.gov\n+1"],["S_WA-P15-S032","Washington DOH, WSR 23-19-065, interpretive statement notice—CC23-01 geographic restrictions. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2023/19/23-19-065.htm","Entire adoption notice.","Notice states an interpretation based on income rather than residency, effective September 18, 2023. Underlying interpretive PDF was inaccessible; notice content is not represented as a complete interpretation read or court holding. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S033","Washington DOH, WSR 26-16-047—proposed charity-care rules. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/16/26-16-047.htm","Proposal header, filing/status, purpose, and selected proposed text; not the entire proposed replacement.","Proposed, filed July 30, 2026. An intended adoption date is not an adoption order. Later supplemental-proposal access remains unresolved. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S034","Washington Legislature, SB 5993 legislative history. https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5993&Year=2025","Displayed bill history/status.","No enacted session law shown in the read history. Proposed interest changes are not substituted for current RCW 19.52.010/.020. Bill text not used as law. \napp.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S035","Washington Legislature, SB 5959 legislative history. https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5959&Year=2025","Displayed history/status.","Proposal/discovery status only; no enactment shown. No substantive eligibility restriction inferred. \napp.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S036","Washington Legislature, HB 2250 legislative history. https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2250&Year=2025","Displayed history/status.","Proposal/discovery status only; no enactment shown. No substantive eligibility restriction inferred. \napp.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S037","Washington Legislature, Charge information and provider-based clinic fees. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.030; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.01.040","Complete .030(1)–(3), .040(1)–(5).","Current code. .030: 2009 c.529 §1. .040: 2021 c.162 §4; 2012 c.184 §1. Original 2012 chain not completed; current amendment/funding chain in S039/S041. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+1"],["S_WA-P15-S038","Washington Legislature, 2009 c.529, SHB 1869. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1869-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+529+s+1","Cover; complete §§1–2, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2.","Enacted; effective July 26, 2009. Estimate-information and hospital-sign provisions. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S039","Washington Legislature, 2021 c.162, E2SHB 1272. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1272-S2.SL.pdf?cite=2021+c+162+s+4","Cover; §1(7), p.6/index 6; complete §4, pp.8–9/indexes 8–9; §§6–7, p.12/index 12.","Enacted; effective July 25, 2021, subject to specific-funding clause. S041 supplies the expressly referenced implementation appropriation. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+2"],["S_WA-P15-S040","Washington Legislature, 2015 c.201, SHB 1503—medical liens. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1503-S.SL.pdf?cite=2015+c+201+s+2","Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–4/indexes 1–4.","Enacted; effective July 24, 2015. Lien disclosure/release and collection-agency scope amendments; not the origin of every lien rule. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"],["S_WA-P15-S041","Washington Legislature, 2021 c.334, ESSB 5092, adopted operating budget. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Htm/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5092-S.SL.htm","Certification/effective-date and partial-veto identification; §1(1); §222 heading and complete (32).","Historical adopted appropriation, effective May 18, 2021. §222(32) expressly funds E2SHB 1272 implementation. Used solely to resolve S039’s funding contingency; not a current assistance appropriation finding. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+2"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":3,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C001","Statutory charity care concerns medically necessary hospital care for an indigent person after available third-party coverage, including inability to pay relevant deductibles or coinsurance.","S001, .020(1), (4), (7); S002, -010(4)–(7).","Medical necessity, coverage, and financial predicates are not established by a bill’s label."],["S_WA-P15-C002","The charity chapter incorporates the hospital definition and includes the specified behavioral-health-hospital category. Acute-hospital, behavioral-hospital, clinic, nursing, birthing, and residential-treatment categories are not interchangeable.","S001 .020(3); S003 .020(9), .090; S004 .455–.460.","Renumbered cross-reference identified; complete special licensing/tribal application remains held. B001."],["S_WA-P15-C003","WAC -050(3) excludes the professional services of hospital medical staff from that section and RCW 70.170.060(5) when charges are individually submitted or separately identified in hospital billing.","S002 -010(8), -050(3).","This is a charge/role-specific exclusion, not a conclusion that every charge from a professional or every combined bill is excluded. B001."],["S_WA-P15-C004","The rule’s responsible party is the individual responsible for hospital charges outside third-party sponsorship.","S002 -010(14).","Does not resolve contractual guarantor liability or aggregation of different persons’ resources."],["S_WA-P15-C005","The displayed rule defines family as two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together, treating those related persons as one family.","S002 -010(18).","No supplied household is classified; single-person and other household-construction questions are not filled by assumption. B002."],["S_WA-P15-C006","Rule-defined income is total cash receipts before taxes from the listed wages, salaries, welfare, Social Security, strike, unemployment/disability, support, alimony, and net business/investment sources.","S002 -010(17).","No gross/net conversion, asset-to-income conversion, or actual income assessment."],["S_WA-P15-C007","Statutory third-party coverage includes listed insurance and government/tribal sources; actually received negligence recoveries may be considered, but pending recoveries do not postpone charity consideration.","S001 .020(7); S002 -010(9).","The federal health-care-sharing-ministry definition and complete coverage entitlement rules remain unread dependencies. B005."],["S_WA-P15-C008","RCW 19.16.100(11) covers consumer debt to a person whose primary business is medical services/products/devices, or its agent/assignee, for those items; it expressly includes bills not past due and bills already paid.","S008 .100(11); S024 §1.","“Medical debt” is not confined to delinquent hospital accounts. No actual actor or obligation is classified."],["S_WA-P15-C009","That definition excludes cosmetic surgery but specifies that the stated reconstructive-surgery circumstances are not cosmetic surgery for this purpose.","S008 .100(11).","No procedure or diagnosis is evaluated."],["S_WA-P15-C010","Medical-debt law and transfer law use different incorporated provider/facility definitions: RCW 48.43.005 and RCW 70.02.010 respectively.","S008 .100(11); S009 .470; S005–S006.","The chapter-specific ground-ambulance distinction in 48.43.005 does not establish a universal medical-debt exclusion. B029."],["S_WA-P15-C011","Collection-agency categories include collecting others’ claims, specified fictitious-name collection, debt buyers, and specified third-party medical-lien enforcement.","S008 .100(4), (7), (10).","Licensee duties require the statutory actor predicate; no actual license or actor investigated."],["S_WA-P15-C012","The Act contains conditional employee, true-name incidental-business, billing-only, affiliation, and out-of-state exclusions.","S008 .100(5), (12).","A professional label, original-creditor label, or corporate relationship alone does not satisfy an exclusion. FDCPA incorporation in the out-of-state definition remains held. B021."],["S_WA-P15-C013","The official WSR notice announces DOH’s CC23-01 interpretation that charity eligibility is income-based rather than restricted wholly or partly by residency.","S032, entire notice.","Full interpretation inaccessible; not a completed immigration/citizenship analysis or judicial holding. B010."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":4,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C014","Each covered hospital must develop, implement, and maintain a charity-care policy enabling indigent persons to obtain charity care.","S001 .060(5).","A policy’s existence does not establish compliant implementation."],["S_WA-P15-C015","That policy must identify potentially available medical-assistance/exchange coverage and actively assist applications; qualified retroactive medical-assistance coverage receives a specific assistance duty.","S001 .060(5), introductory clauses.","Complete chapter 74.09 eligibility and coverage procedures are held."],["S_WA-P15-C016","The statute’s reasonable-cooperation exception concerns a determination that the patient/guarantor qualifies for retroactive medical-assistance coverage and failure to cooperate reasonably with assistance applying.","S001 .060(5).","It is not a universal requirement that every applicant first apply for every program."],["S_WA-P15-C017","Unreasonable application burdens are prohibited, including requiring an obviously/categorically ineligible program application or one denied in the prior 12 months.","S001 .060(5); S002 -020(5), -030(4).","Physical, mental, intellectual, sensory, and language barriers must be considered as the text states; no personal condition is supplied."],["S_WA-P15-C018","The higher statutory tier uses the three alternative institutional predicates reproduced in Q003 below.","S001 .060(5)(a); S020 §2.","No institution, county, bed count, ownership group, or population reference is selected. B003."],["S_WA-P15-C019","In that tier, income not more than 300% FPL, adjusted for family size, receives charity care for the full patient-responsibility portion.","S001 .060(5)(a)(i).","Covered-care and other statutory predicates remain necessary."],["S_WA-P15-C020","The higher tier’s stated 301–350% band receives a 75% discount on the full patient-responsibility portion, subject to the permitted asset reduction.","S001 .060(5)(a)(ii).","Fractional boundary and rounding questions held."],["S_WA-P15-C021","The higher tier’s stated 351–400% band receives a 50% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction.","S001 .060(5)(a)(iii).","Same boundary hold."],["S_WA-P15-C022","Hospitals outside the higher-tier predicates must provide full patient-responsibility charity care at income not more than 200% FPL.","S001 .060(5)(b)(i).","No institution assigned to this tier by default."],["S_WA-P15-C023","Their stated 201–250% band receives a 75% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction.","S001 .060(5)(b)(ii).","Fractional boundary and rounding questions held."],["S_WA-P15-C024","Their stated 251–300% band receives a 50% discount, subject to permitted asset reduction.","S001 .060(5)(b)(iii).","Same boundary hold."],["S_WA-P15-C025","An asset-based reduction of the specified partial discounts requires a publicly available asset policy; the reduction must be reasonably related to considered assets.","S001 .060(5)(a)(ii)–(iii), (b)(ii)–(iii), (c)(i).","No prescribed general reduction formula was authenticated; no extension to the full-assistance provisions is assumed."],["S_WA-P15-C026","Statutory monetary-asset disregards and the early-withdrawal valuation relation are those in Q006.","S001 .060(5)(c)(ii)(A).","These are assistance-review rules, not execution or bankruptcy exemptions."],["S_WA-P15-C027","Other excluded assets include primary-residence equity, retirement plans other than 401(k) plans, specified vehicles, burial arrangements, and qualifying life insurance.","S001 .060(5)(c)(ii)(B)–(F).","The 401(k) exception is preserved; it is not rewritten as an exclusion for every retirement account."],["S_WA-P15-C028","Asset verification must be relevant, reasonably necessary, readily available, and nonduplicative; one current monetary-asset statement suffices, and unavailable documentation is addressed by a signed statement.","S001 .060(5)(c)(iii).","No application or document request is prepared."],["S_WA-P15-C029","Asset information obtained for charity eligibility may not be used for collection activities; the statute separately preserves CMS Medicare cost-reporting considerations.","S001 .060(5)(c)(iv)–(v).","Complete federal cost-reporting incorporation held."],["S_WA-P15-C030","The 2026 HHS poverty-guideline publication is authenticated, but its existence does not select the correct guideline year, family definition, or income date for a particular charity determination.","S031; S001 .060(10)(b).","No annual dollar amount or numerical financial input is used. B004."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":5,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C031","The statute uses income at service, or at application when application is within two years, good-faith payment efforts exist, and eligibility is demonstrated.","S001 .060(10)(b); S021 §2.","The alternative is conditional; it is not a universal two-year application bar."],["S_WA-P15-C032","Hospitals may consider applications at any time at their discretion; the older rule also commands designation upon learning qualifying facts within its expressly stated ≤200% band.","S001 .060(11); S002 -020(10).","Extension of the older rule’s wording to new higher bands remains held. B007."],["S_WA-P15-C033","An initial sponsorship determination must precede hospital collection efforts directed at the patient.","S001 .060(10)(c).","Does not itself establish a final assistance decision."],["S_WA-P15-C034","The rule calls for initial determination at admission or as soon as possible after services start; demands and transmissions not clearly informational count as collection efforts.","S002 -020(1)(a)–(b).","A billing label alone does not establish an informational-only communication."],["S_WA-P15-C035","Cooperative applicants potentially qualifying under the rule receive its pending-final-determination collection protection; third-party reimbursement may continue, and the specified disproportionate-share-hospital clinic exception is separate.","S002 -020(1)(c)–(e).","The clinic’s incorporated DSH classification and the higher-band cross-reference issue remain held. B007–B008."],["S_WA-P15-C036","The rule accepts any one of its enumerated income documents when annualized as appropriate; it does not require every listed document.","S002 -030(2).","No actual document sufficiency or annualization is assessed."],["S_WA-P15-C037","When indigency is obvious and the hospital can establish a broad income range, the rule dispenses with exact income/documentation unless further review is requested.","S002 -030(3).","This conditional procedure is not a universal automatic presumptive-eligibility algorithm."],["S_WA-P15-C038","If the listed documentation is unavailable, the hospital must rely on the responsible party’s signed statement; verification cannot be duplicative or used to discourage application.","S002 -030(4).","No statement is constructed or evaluated."],["S_WA-P15-C039","Initially qualifying persons receive at least 14 calendar days, or longer as the stated medical-condition/reasonable-documentation needs require, to provide documentation before final determination.","S002 -020(3).","The exact older-band incorporation remains visible."],["S_WA-P15-C040","Final determination notice is due within 14 calendar days after receipt of information under -030, must state financial responsibility, and a denial must give its basis.","S002 -020(7)–(8).","Not measured automatically from an incomplete application’s first submission."],["S_WA-P15-C041","The rule requires a notified appeal procedure allowing correction/review by the CFO or equivalent and states a 30-calendar-day request period.","S002 -020(9), (9)(a).","Exact cross-reference to -040(1)/(2) is retained; higher-band reconciliation held."],["S_WA-P15-C042","The rule bars external referral during the appeal period’s first 14 days and requires hospital collection to stop upon discovering a filed appeal until finalization; an upheld denial is reported in writing to the applicant and DOH with supporting documentation to DOH.","S002 -020(9)(a)–(d).","The rule’s later collection language does not override the separate 120-day transfer statute or another applicable pause."],["S_WA-P15-C043","The rule prohibits deposits after an initial determination meeting its specified -040(1)/(2) criteria.","S002 -020(6).","No universal deposit prohibition for every applicant or automatic higher-band extension is asserted."],["S_WA-P15-C044","When a paying responsible party is later found to have met the charity criteria at service, payments above the appropriate amount must be refunded within 30 days of charity designation.","S002 -020(11).","Refund basis, older cross-reference, assignment recipient, and application-time-only eligibility issues remain held. B007, B020."],["S_WA-P15-C045","Required public notice includes specified hospital locations; current policy, plain-language summary, and application must be online, with the stated language thresholds.","S001 .060(6)–(7); S002 -010(16).","No hospital website or policy inspected."],["S_WA-P15-C046","Hospital billing/collection writings require prominent first-page assistance information in English and the second-most-spoken service-area language, subject to the preprinted-statement exception.","S001 .060(8).","This is not the same language threshold as the >10% posting/application requirement."],["S_WA-P15-C047","The statute preserves meaningful-language-access obligations and requires standardized charity/interpreter training for appropriate staff.","S001 .060(9).","Full incorporated state/federal language-access law not completed."],["S_WA-P15-C048","Charity/sliding-fee and bad-debt policies are filed with DOH; modifications, rejection notices, and resubmissions have the distinct timing rules in Q016.","S002 -070.","Policy filing is not a finding that a policy or actual decision complies."],["S_WA-P15-C049","RCW 43.70.052(7) requires quarterly counts of submitted, completed, and approved charity applications beginning January 1, 2023.","S019 (7); S039 §1(7); S041 §222(32).","No hospital data or individual application record inspected."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":6,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C050","RCW 70.01.030 requires requested estimate/charge information within its provider/facility scope; hospitals have a registration-area estimate-information sign duty under .450.","S037 .030; S003 .450; S038 §§1–2.","Estimate disclosure is not a final price, coverage promise, general price ceiling, or earned-charge finding."],["S_WA-P15-C051","Before or upon inpatient discharge, covered hospitals must provide the specified professional-billing-group information and an assistance contact.","S003 .400(1), (4).","Section-specific HMO exception preserved; this is not itself a complete itemized bill requirement."],["S_WA-P15-C052","Covered provider-based clinic facility fees trigger advance nonemergency notice, posting, and reporting duties under the section’s definitions and exceptions.","S037 .040(1)–(5); S039 §4.","Separate facility charge versus professional charge matters; laboratory/ancillary and excluded-clinic branches remain as written. No generic fee ceiling or entitlement inferred."],["S_WA-P15-C053","WAC -050 requires consideration of reasonable payment periods without interest/late fees in its sliding-schedule framework and gives illustrative schedules, not a universal current medical-payment formula.","S002 -050(1)–(2).","Old-band examples cannot reduce 2022 statutory assistance."],["S_WA-P15-C054","A covered provider/facility may not transfer medical debt to a licensed collection agency until at least 120 days after transmission of the initial billing statement.","S009 .470; S025 §7.","Transmission is the reference event; this is not a universal original-creditor collection moratorium."],["S_WA-P15-C055","A licensee’s first written medical-debt notice must disclose the right to request the original/redacted account number, last-payment date, and statutory itemization.","S008 .250(28)(a)(i).","No request or notice is prepared."],["S_WA-P15-C056","General licensee notice itemization requirements apply on first notice or a changed amount, with the section’s legal-process/judgment qualifications; disclosed interest also invokes the rule’s rate-disclosure requirement.","S008 .250(8)–(9); S018 -070.","Postjudgment notice qualifications are not transformed into a medical-itemization exemption."],["S_WA-P15-C057","An oral or written request for more information than a general balance letter triggers a free itemized statement and cessation of collection until it is provided, subject to the express exceptions.","S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(A)–(C).","No separate fixed response-day number appears in this clause."],["S_WA-P15-C058","Required itemization identifies medical creditor/address, service dates, provider-described services, principal, adjustments, payments, interest/fees, and charity/other reductions with the resulting amount due.","S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(A)(I)–(VIII).","It is an information duty, not proof that listed charges are valid."],["S_WA-P15-C059","A voluntary payment arrangement may continue during the itemization process unless the debtor gives the notice described in the statute.","S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(B).","This exception is not advice about payment or an approval of an arrangement."],["S_WA-P15-C060","Properly executed postjudgment writs need not cease under the itemization clause, and repeat requests for information already supplied do not require renewed cessation.","S008 .250(28)(a)(ii)(C).","Validity of a writ is held; this exception is not copied into subsection (29)."],["S_WA-P15-C061","The first written hospital-debt notice must state potential charity eligibility and provide hospital contact information.","S008 .250(29)(a).","Potential eligibility is not an approval."],["S_WA-P15-C062","A licensee receiving notice of a pending hospital-charity application or appeal may not collect or attempt collection during that pendency.","S008 .250(29)(b).","Receipt of notice is an express predicate. Resumption requires the pendency question to be resolved; no universal postjudgment exception is stated here."],["S_WA-P15-C063","The licensee charge rule restricts additions beyond principal to the stated lawful-interest/statutory-charge/suit-cost categories; the commercial written-fee exception is not ordinary consumer-fee authorization.","S008 .250(21)–(22).","No agreed, lawful, earned, or collectible fee is established."],["S_WA-P15-C064","Medical prejudgment interest charged or collected may not exceed 9%; existing accrual as of July 28, 2019 is subject to the express forward-accrual restriction.","S011 .010(2), .020(4); S025 §§5–6.","Ceiling only; entitlement, base, annualization, compounding, and day-count questions are not supplied."],["S_WA-P15-C065","Consumer judgments use the 9% rule from entry, except the written-contract branch specified in RCW 4.56.110(1); medical debt is included by the incorporated consumer definition.","S012 (1), (5); S013 (2)–(3).","No assertion that every medical judgment necessarily bears 9%, or that a higher contractual rate is lawful."],["S_WA-P15-C066","Public entities have a separate written-contract collection-agency route with prior attempted notice and a minimum elapsed period.","S008 .500(1)–(4).","No public institution or debt is classified; no transplantation to private medical debt."],["S_WA-P15-C067","Public-debt collection fees are subject to reasonableness, statutory presumptions, and specified benchmarks—not a universal medical-fee ceiling.","S008 .500(1)(b).","Interaction with medical-interest, charity, and RCW 43.17.240 remains held."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":7,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C068","A licensee may not report adverse medical-debt information to consumer credit reporting agencies or credit bureaus under current .250(28)(a)(iii).","S008; S024 §3.","The former waiting period is not current authorization to report later."],["S_WA-P15-C069","RCW 70.54.475 expressly makes medical debt void and unenforceable if its stated furnishing-violation predicate is met.","S009 .475(1).","Actor, medical-debt scope, prohibited furnishing, temporal application, and federal interface are not adjudicated."],["S_WA-P15-C070","RCW 70.41.400 prohibits specified hospital/professional-partner furnishing, attaches void-and-unenforceable treatment, and deems a violation a licensing-law violation.","S003 .400(2).","Applies within the complete section’s scope and exception."],["S_WA-P15-C071","Section .400 excludes the specified HMO-owned/operated hospital when providing prepaid care to the stated enrollees.","S003 .400(4); S007.","This section-specific exclusion is not imported into .475 or the Collection Agency Act. HMO qualification incorporation remains held."],["S_WA-P15-C072","A covered consumer reporting agency may not make a consumer report containing medical debt under RCW 19.182.040(1)(g).","S010 .010, .020, .040(1)(g).","Definitions and report exclusions matter; no actual report is evaluated."],["S_WA-P15-C073","The exceptions in .040(2) expressly identify other paragraphs and do not include medical-debt paragraph (g).","S010 .040(2).","The monetary/employment exceptions are not transferred to medical debt."],["S_WA-P15-C074","A violation of .250/.260 in collecting a claim triggers .450’s loss of specified fees/interest for the licensee, client, and later collectors, while the section separately preserves principal.","S008 .450; S026 §3.","The principal proviso is not assumed to revive debt independently void under .475/.400. B016."],["S_WA-P15-C075","A plaintiff may not seek an arrest warrant for an act or omission relating to a medical-debt judgment unless it constitutes a state-law crime.","S014 (4); S025 §2.","Not a general immunity from every court duty or criminal law."],["S_WA-P15-C076","Chapter 60.44 addresses specified ambulance/hospital/professional services for traumatic injury and specified tort claims/recoveries; workers’ compensation recoveries are excluded.","S015 .010.","Not a general medical lien on all property."],["S_WA-P15-C077","Aggregate service liens for one person arising from one accident/event may not exceed 25% of the listed recovery measure.","S015 .010.","Value, allowable enforcement costs/fees, validity, and priority remain unestablished."],["S_WA-P15-C078","The lien statute requires specified disclosure and verified recording conditions, with the filing alternatives in Q028; enforcement by another actor invokes collection-agency conditions.","S015 .020–.030; S008 .100(4)(e); S040 §§1,3.","No recording, perfection, or enforcement capacity is determined."],["S_WA-P15-C079","Taking a note or entering a settlement does not automatically discharge the lien; .040/.050 specify payment, agreement, and written-release qualifications.","S015 .040–.050.","Lien release and discharge of the underlying obligation are kept distinct."],["S_WA-P15-C080","Section .060(1) contains a one-year-from-filing lien-enforcement period and a limited evidentiary rule for that statutory suit.","S015 .060(1).","Included only as the medical-lien interface; no general limitations rerun, date calculation, or actual evidentiary conclusion."],["S_WA-P15-C081","Following payment or qualifying settlement and acceptance, the lien claimant must provide the specified release within 30 days; unjustified delay, if found by the court in the stated suit, supports listed costs, fees, and damages.","S015 .060(2); S040 §2.","No automatic damages or completed release is presumed."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":8,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C082","The charity statute prohibits specified admission practices reducing access for uninsured/unable-to-pay or lower-payment patients and refusal based on unusually costly/prolonged care rather than available-care appropriateness.","S001 .060(1); S002 -010(10).","No treatment, admission, or statistical comparison is performed."],["S_WA-P15-C083","The statute prohibits denying emergency access based on ability to pay and limits transfers through its patient-request/resource and reasonable-transfer conditions.","S001 .060(2); S023 §3.","Full emergency-care definitions and federal EMTALA application are not represented as a complete treatment-law finding."],["S_WA-P15-C084","DOH monitors specified hospital practices, may refer possible noncompliance, reviews specified charity denials, and performs reporting functions.","S001 .060(3), (12)–(13); S002 -020(9)(d).","Referral, review, and reporting are not findings of liability or approval."],["S_WA-P15-C085","RCW 70.170.070(1) supplies misdemeanor, injunction, and DOH civil-penalty provisions with its stated violation/knowledge/duty and official-notice predicates.","S001 .070(1), notes.","Renumbered/repealed cross-references prevent treating every modern paragraph as mechanically resolved."],["S_WA-P15-C086","Admission/emergency violations have separate initial, subsequent-conviction, intentional, and further-violation penalty branches.","S001 .070(2)(a)–(d).","The different five-year and discretionary sanction conditions are retained in Q032."],["S_WA-P15-C087","WAC -090 states fixed filing/reporting penalties and a substitution rule for other civil penalties, while the statute uses ceilings/discretion and narrower cross-references.","S002 -090; S001 .070.","Reconciliation and validity/construction remain held; no automatic patient award or automatic maximum penalty."],["S_WA-P15-C088","Medical itemization/reporting and specified furnishing provisions expressly connect their violations to the CPA; the CAA also has a general CPA provision.","S008 .250(28)(b), .440; S009 .475(2); S003 .400(3).","Statutory public-interest/deceptive-practice treatment does not prove every private-remedy element."],["S_WA-P15-C089","RCW 19.86.090 requires injury to business/property by a covered violation for its private action and provides actual damages, specified costs/fees, injunction, and discretionary enhancement.","S016 .090; S028 §1.","Causation, standing, proof, judicial discretion, and forum incorporation remain necessary."],["S_WA-P15-C090","RCW 19.86.093 supplies public-interest routes; .170 contains specific regulated-transaction exclusions.","S016 .093, .170.","Neither ordinary licensure nor a medical label establishes a blanket CPA exclusion."],["S_WA-P15-C091","The CAA authorizes specified public injunction proceedings and incorporates chapter 18.235 for licensing/discipline.","S008 .460, .510.","Full administrative procedure, discipline, exhaustion, and complaint implementation remain open."],["S_WA-P15-C092","Hospital patient-rights rules include care/treatment complaints without retribution or denial of care and a timely complaint-resolution framework.","S017 -141.","Not expanded into a universal medical-billing retaliation claim."],["S_WA-P15-C093","This pass has not authenticated a universal medical-debt nonwaiver clause, an automatic implied private charity-care damages action, or debt erasure for every charity-procedure defect.","Read scope S001–S018; B017–B018, B030.","Express research hold, not proof that no additional right exists."]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],"index":9,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Precise proposition","Sources/pinpoints","Conditions and limits"],["S_WA-P15-C094","The 2022 expanded charity law applies to care on/after July 1, 2022; earlier care remains governed by the preserved prior law.","S020 §4, p.8/index 8.","Collection date alone does not select the applicable assistance version."],["S_WA-P15-C095","The 2018 charity notice/income-time amendments took effect October 1, 2018.","S021 §3, p.5/index 5.","Not the enactment date of the 2022 tier structure."],["S_WA-P15-C096","The 2019 medical-interest/transfer enactment took effect July 28, 2019 and contains the express ongoing-interest transition.","S025 cover, §§5–7.","Historical application outside those clauses remains held."],["S_WA-P15-C097","The 2025 medical-reporting enactment took effect July 27, 2025 and replaced the prior adverse-reporting waiting-period language.","S024 cover, §3(28)(a)(iii).","Retroactivity and older furnishing are not resolved merely by the effective date."],["S_WA-P15-C098","The 2025 emergency-transfer amendment was immediately effective April 29, 2025.","S023 cover, §6.","Limited to the amendment actually read."],["S_WA-P15-C099","The 2026 definition amendment used here was effective June 11, 2026, although other sections of that same act take effect January 1, 2027.","S029 cover, §§14–15.","Title-wide future timing is not imposed on §14."],["S_WA-P15-C100","RCW 70.02.010 displays a separate June 30, 2027 version; it is not used as current law here.","S005 version headings and selected definitions.","Original future application chain remains uncompleted."],["S_WA-P15-C101","The newly enacted chapter 4.74 framework has a January 1, 2027 effective date; its medical-complaint provision is a later inquiry, not a current pleading finding.","S030 §§5,12,15.","Full future procedure and transition application not completed."],["S_WA-P15-C102","The read histories of SB 5993, SB 5959, and HB 2250 did not show enacted laws; their proposed changes are not used as current restrictions or benefits.","S034–S036.","Search/history results do not prove absence of every other amendment."],["S_WA-P15-C103","Current displayed WAC text retains older criteria; the July 2026 instrument read is proposed, and the complete later supplemental instrument was not authenticated.","S002; S033; failure/discovery log.","No claim that a proposed replacement became operative."],["S_WA-P15-C104","The adopted 2021 budget expressly provided implementation funding for E2SHB 1272, addressing the specific-funding contingency in 2021 c.162 §7.","S039 §7; S041 §222(32).","This resolves that funding-source issue only."],["S_WA-P15-C105","The 2020 debt-buyer act expressly applies prospectively to qualifying purchases on/after June 11, 2020.","S026 §5.","Does not erase earlier-law duties or decide a purchase/application predicate."],["S_WA-P15-C106","The 2009 CPA amendment applies to causes accruing on/after July 26, 2009.","S028 §3.","No accrual event or limitation period is determined."],["S_WA-P15-C107","Federal medical/insurance/collection/privacy regimes were not substantively verified by this state component.","Scope boundary; dependency table below.","No federal permission, exemption, or remedy inferred."],["S_WA-P15-C108","WAC 308-29-080’s general satisfaction-notification rule includes a default 45-day meaning of promptness absent another applicable law.","S018 -080.","It is not current permission to furnish prohibited medical information; correction/deletion interaction held."],["S_WA-P15-C109","The CAA states that its remedies are cumulative/nonexclusive and that .250 violations are civil rather than penal.","S008 .900.","Does not authorize duplicate recovery or eliminate separate statutory predicates."],["S_WA-P15-C110","The read disclosure, assistance, and collection provisions do not establish a single general lawful hospital price, universal fee cap, or universally required payment plan.","S001, S002 -050, S011, S037.","A missing authenticated cap is not unlimited-charge permission."],["S_WA-P15-C111","The rule’s bad-debt definition excludes contractual adjustments and charges classified as charity care.","S002 -010(6), -020(10).","Accounting classification is not treated as a complete debt-discharge or insurance-liability decision."],["S_WA-P15-C112","The rule’s final sponsorship determination includes verification of third-party payment/denial and qualifying appeals having a reasonable chance of obtaining coverage.","S002 -010(20).","No insurance appeal’s merits or exhaustion is determined."]]},{"headers":["ID","Quantity, base, or relation","Reference event / boundary / exception","Claims and authority"],"index":10,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["ID","Quantity, base, or relation","Reference event / boundary / exception","Claims and authority"],["Q001","Hospital definition: continuous accommodation for 24 hours or more; services to two or more persons unrelated to the operator.","Definition has listed institutional exclusions; not a provider-classification decision.","C002; S003 .020(9)."],["Q002","Rule family: two or more related persons living together.","Relationship categories are birth, marriage, adoption; no constructed household.","C005; S002 -010(18)."],["Q003","Higher-tier alternatives: system owns/operates ≥3 licensed acute hospitals; or acute hospital >300 licensed beds in the most populous county; or acute hospital >200 beds in a southern-border county with ≥450,000 residents.","“Over” is strict; “at least” includes equality. No population edition, county, or institutional facts selected.","C018; S001 .060(5)(a)."],["Q004","Higher tier: ≤300% FPL: full patient responsibility; statutory 301–350%: 75% discount; 351–400%: 50% discount.","Family-size adjustment; partial discounts subject to permitted asset reduction. Fractional gaps/rounding unresolved.","C019–C021."],["Q005","Other tier: ≤200% FPL: full patient responsibility; 201–250%: 75% discount; 251–300%: 50% discount.","Same qualifications and fractional-boundary hold.","C022–C024."],["Q006","Monetary disregard: first $5,000 for an individual; $8,000 for family of two; $1,500 for each additional family member. Asset with early-withdrawal penalty: value after the penalty has been paid.","Statutory assistance-review base; no substituted family size or asset value.","C026; .060(5)(c)(ii)(A)."],["Q007","Vehicle disregard: one vehicle, plus a second if necessary for employment or medical purposes. Life-insurance exclusion: face value ≤$10,000.","Primary-residence equity, specified retirement and burial assets also excluded without a numeric cap in the read clause.","C027."],["Q008","Prior program ineligibility: 12 months.","Requiring a program application deemed ineligible within that period is identified as an unreasonable burden; separate obvious/categorical ineligibility branch.","C017."],["Q009","Alternative application-time income: application within two years of service, plus good-faith payment efforts and demonstrated eligibility.","Not a general application-expiration period. Boundary-counting details not specified here.","C031–C032."],["Q010","Posting/summary/application language threshold: languages spoken by more than 10% of service-area population. Billing statement: English plus second-most-spoken language.","Different tests; >10% is strict. No demographic input selected.","C045–C047."],["Q011","Income documents: any one of the enumerated alternatives may suffice when appropriately annualized. Monetary assets: one current statement sufficient.","No requirement to produce every listed document; no annualization performed.","C028, C036."],["Q012","Documentation opportunity: at least 14 calendar days, or longer under specified need.","Initially qualifying determination; before final determination.","C039."],["Q013","Final determination notice: within 14 calendar days after receipt of -030 information.","Includes financial responsibility; denial basis required.","C040."],["Q014","Appeal request: 30 calendar days; no external referral during first 14 days of that period.","Appeal-finalization and separate transfer statute remain necessary. The rule calls the overall period calendar days; no computed endpoint supplied.","C041–C042."],["Q015","Refund: excess paid above appropriate charity-adjusted charge, within 30 days after charity designation.","Eligibility at service; no zero balance or refund amount inferred. Clause does not separately label these days business/calendar.","C044."],["Q016","Policy modification filing: ≥30 days before adoption. DOH rejection mailed within 14 calendar days of receipt. Resubmission within 14 days of the date of rejection notice.","Mailing, receipt, and notice date are different events.","C048; S002 -070."],["Q017","Charity-application reporting: quarterly, beginning January 1, 2023; prior-quarter submitted/completed/approved counts.","Administrative reporting, not an application decision deadline.","C049."],["Q018","Older WAC criteria: ≤100% full assistance; 101–200% sliding discount; >200% discretionary classification.","Current displayed older text; not substituted for the later statutory minimums applicable to newer care.","C032, C053, C103."],["Q019","Older illustrative schedule: uncovered hospital responsibility limited to 40% × (annual family income − 100%-FPL amount); alternative examples 101–133% →75%, 134–166% →50%, 167–200% →25% discount.","These are the rule’s examples, with adjustment/negotiation qualifications. No zero floor, current universal formula, or numerical application added.","C053; S002 -050(2)."],["Q020","Older implementation instruction: 90 days from adoption of the rules; examples contemplate monthly installments over a reasonable negotiated period without interest/late fees.","Historical implementation trigger, not a new patient deadline or universal payment-plan term.","C053."]]},{"headers":["ID","Quantity, relation, or period","Trigger / boundary / exception","Claims and authority"],"index":11,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["ID","Quantity, relation, or period","Trigger / boundary / exception","Claims and authority"],["Q021","Transfer waiting period: at least 120 days.","After initial billing statement is transmitted; licensed-agency transfer, not every collection action.","C054; S009 .470."],["Q022","Requested medical itemization: free of charge; pause unless and until provided.","Oral or written qualifying request; no fixed number of response days stated.","C057–C058."],["Q023","Repeat request exception: second or subsequent request for information already provided; separate properly executed postjudgment-writ exception.","Applies to the itemization pause, not automatically to charity pendency.","C060."],["Q024","Medical prejudgment rate ceiling: 9%.","Existing accrual transition as of July 28, 2019. The medical clauses themselves do not supply compounding or day-count instructions; no calculation convention added.","C064."],["Q025","Consumer-judgment rate: 9% from entry, subject to the written-contract exception.","Lawful rate, contract terms, judgment wording, and judgment validity not established.","C065."],["Q026","Commercial-claim fee exception: written-agreement fee not exceeding 35% of the amount due under its stated branch.","Not an ordinary consumer medical-fee authorization.","C063; S008 .250(21)."],["Q027","Public-debt reasonableness benchmarks: contingent fee up to 50% of first $100,000 unpaid per account and up to 35% above $100,000; minimum fee of the full debt up to $100 per account reasonable; agreement presumptively reasonable.","Statutory reasonableness treatment, not universal hard caps or actual charge permission. Prior attempted notice plus at least 30 days elapsed.","C066–C067; .500."],["Q028","Medical-lien aggregate: ≤25% of the listed award/verdict/report/decision/decree/judgment/settlement for one person from one accident/event.","Workers’ compensation exclusion; no recovery base supplied.","C076–C077."],["Q029","Lien notice: within 20 days after the specified injury/transport/care event, or before settlement and payment have been completed under the alternative.","Verified notice and recording/disclosure conditions remain; no filing instructions or date result.","C078; .020."],["Q030","Lien enforcement: within one year after filing.","Special statutory lien action; no general debt-limitation conclusion.","C080; .060(1)."],["Q031","Lien release: no later than 30 days after payment, or settlement and acceptance, as specified.","Unjustified-delay remedy requires the stated court finding in the release action.","C081; .060(2)."],["Q032","General charity civil penalty: not exceeding $1,000; separate violations can arise for each day after official notice under the statute.","Violation/knowledge/duty predicates and administrative procedure remain necessary.","C085."],["Q033","Admission/emergency branches: initial ≤$1,000; subsequent within five years following conviction ≤$3,000; intentional subsequent branch may add up to three years of specified bond/certificate restrictions; further branch may add up to one year of specified program exclusion.","Exact conviction/intent and subsection references preserved; no stacking or mandatory sanction inferred.","C086; .070(2)."],["Q034","WAC filing/reporting penalty: $1,000 per day after official notice; authorized extensions defer the violation point.","Rule/statute reconciliation remains held.","C087; -090."],["Q035","CPA enhancement: discretionary increase up to three times actual damages, with the statute’s $25,000 increased-award limitation for the stated branch.","Not an automatic $25,000 award, not automatic addition to every other remedy, and no damages calculation.","C089; .090."],["Q036","General satisfaction-notification rule: promptness defaults to 45 days absent another applicable law.","Medical furnishing prohibition and correction/deletion interface remain unresolved.","C108; S018 -080."],["Q037","“Unusually costly/prolonged” rule definition: services exceeding two standard deviations above average charge and/or three standard deviations above average stay.","DOH discharge-database reference; no statistical input or treatment classification.","C082; S002 -010(10)."],["Q038","2021 funding evidence: $596,000 FY2022, $58,000 FY2023, and $64,000 hospital-data-account appropriation expressly designated for implementation.","Historical legislative funding evidence only; not patient assistance amounts or a current benefits allocation.","C104; S041 §222(32)."],["Q039","Annual HHS table, income bands, and asset thresholds","No household dollar threshold, financial input, discount result, interest amount, or remedy amount calculated.","C030; all quantitative holds above."],["Q040","Unspecified procedural counting","No general inclusive/exclusive date algorithm, holiday rule, mailing extension, rounding rule, or universal resumption date authenticated.","Applies throughout; relevant next inquiries in B004, B007, B011–B014, B019."]]},{"headers":["Version item","Source-stated date or relation","Legal significance and retained limit"],"index":12,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Version item","Source-stated date or relation","Legal significance and retained limit"],["2015 medical-lien amendments","Effective July 24, 2015.","S040; does not authenticate every older lien amendment."],["2018 charity amendments","Effective October 1, 2018.","S021; preprinted statements existing on that date have a specific notice exception."],["2019 medical-debt act","Effective July 28, 2019.","S025; existing-interest forward-accrual clause separately read."],["2019 consumer-judgment amendment","Effective July 28, 2019.","S027; no historical judgment classification."],["2020 debt-buyer act","Effective June 11, 2020; qualifying purchases on/after that date.","S026; expressly prospective."],["2021 transparency act","Effective July 25, 2021; specific funding required by June 30, 2021.","S039/S041 resolve the funding condition through an adopted appropriation effective May 18, 2021."],["2022 charity act","Effective June 9, 2022; expanded assistance applies to care on/after July 1, 2022.","S020 §4 preserves prior law for earlier care. The separate study provision expires January 1, 2027; that is not expiration of charity assistance."],["Residency interpretation notice","Effective September 18, 2023 as stated in notice.","S032; full interpretation remains unread."],["2024 definitions","Effective June 6, 2024.","S022, selected definitions only."],["2025 emergency-transfer amendment","Effective April 29, 2025.","S023; immediate-effect clause read."],["2025 reporting act","Effective July 27, 2025.","S024; no automatic retroactivity finding."],["2026 poverty publication","Effective January 13, 2026, unless program specifies otherwise.","S031; not a selected state eligibility calculation."],["2026 definition amendment","§14 effective June 11, 2026; §§1–13 January 1, 2027.","S029; different sections have different timing."],["Future consumer-debt procedure","Effective January 1, 2027.","S030; future only."],["Future 70.02 definition display","June 30, 2027.","S005; original future application chain held."],["Older charity rules","Material credits show March 17, 1991 and July 2, 1994 effective dates.","Current codified bodies read; scanned original-rule verification incomplete."],["2026 rulemaking","July proposal filed July 30, 2026; later October proposal discovery described below.","Proposal/adoption distinction preserved; no proposed effective date applied."],["CPA amendment","Effective and applicable to causes accruing on/after July 26, 2009.","S028; no accrual analysis."]]},{"headers":["Branch","Supported conditional consequence","Missing predicate / adverse inference to avoid","Exact next generic authority inquiry"],"index":13,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Branch","Supported conditional consequence","Missing predicate / adverse inference to avoid","Exact next generic authority inquiry"],["B001 — Hospital and professional scope","Hospital charity law and the professional-service exclusion operate by their actual definitions and billing conditions. C001–C003.","Do not equate hospital location, professional affiliation, or one statement with coverage of every charge.","Complete any necessary generic licensing-category incorporation and authoritative interpretation of WAC -050(3); no institution lookup."],["B002 — Family, guarantor, income","Rule definitions govern the identified assistance inquiry. C004–C006.","Do not substitute an insurance household, tax household, or invented aggregation rule.","Generic DOH interpretation reconciling single individuals, guarantors, family composition, and current statute."],["B003 — Institutional assistance tier","Statutory tier follows one of the express institutional alternatives. C018–C024.","No default assignment to either tier; no unstated population reference date.","Generic interpretation of ownership/system, licensed-bed, and population-reference criteria; factual tier assignment remains excluded."],["B004 — FPL year and fractional bands","Statutory percentages operate against the legally applicable family-size guideline.","Do not round a fractional percentage into a stated band or automatically use the newest annual table for earlier care.","Official generic guidance on guideline-year selection, fractional bands, annualization, and rounding consistent with .060(10)."],["B005 — Coverage and cooperation","Assistance to obtain qualified retroactive coverage is required; reasonable noncooperation can affect the specific statutory obligation.","Do not infer eligibility or impose applications for obviously ineligible programs.","Chapter 74.09 and applicable generic coverage/appeal rules; complete 26 U.S.C. 5000A health-sharing definition only if that branch is needed."],["B006 — Care date selects version","Care on/after the statutory application date receives the expanded framework.","A later bill, assignment, or collection date does not itself establish the assistance version.","Read preserved pre-July-2022 law only for a separate historical-law inquiry."],["B007 — Older WAC cross-references","Current statute supplies expanded minimums; older procedural text remains visible.","Do not reduce statutory aid to old bands or automatically extend every old deposit/appeal/refund cross-reference without authority.","Authenticate final amended rules or a complete formal DOH interpretation reconciling -020/-040/-050 with .060(5)."],["B008 — DSH clinic exception","-020(1)(e) states a limited exception subject to its notice conditions.","Do not treat every hospital clinic as exempt from screening or all charity obligations.","Read the indispensable generic DSH definition/identification authority and exact exception interpretation."],["B009 — Documentation","One listed document, obvious-indigency treatment, and unavailable-document statements are separate branches.","Do not demand every document or label a generic procedure universally presumptive.","Current final rule/formal interpretation on evidence sufficiency and reasonable verification, without constructing an application."],["B010 — Residency/immigration","Official adoption notice announces the income-based geographic interpretation.","Do not treat the inaccessible full interpretation as read; do not infer a complete immigration/citizenship rule.","Obtain CC23-01 through a readable ordinary official route and authenticate any later adopted change."],["B011 — Hospital versus collector pendency","Hospital screening/appeal duties and licensee received-notice duties are distinct.","Do not assume every actor has received notice or that every pending matter invokes the same pause.","Generic interpretation of receipt, pendency, finalization, and hospital/assignee coordination."],["B012 — Itemization exceptions","The itemization pause has payment-plan, repeated-information, and properly executed writ qualifications.","Do not treat a writ as valid or transfer its exception to charity pendency.","Complete generic authority on interaction of .250(28) and (29); actual writ validity remains excluded."],["B013 — Transfer timing","Licensed-agency transfer has the 120-day transmission trigger.","Do not treat 14-day appeal language as permission to transfer sooner, or 120 days as permission to report.","Generic interpretation of transfer/assignment/sale and initial-statement transmission where necessary."],["B014 — Charges and public debts","Medical interest, CAA fee restrictions, and public-debt fees have different bases.","A cap, agreement, or public fee presumption does not establish an earned lawful medical charge.","RCW 43.17.240 and formal interpretation of public medical-debt interaction; lawful interest accrual/base/compounding remain separate."],["B015 — Reporting definitions and corrections","Current medical furnishing/report-content restrictions apply within their respective definitions.","Do not import HMO .400 exception elsewhere or treat old satisfaction-reporting rules as permission to report medical debt.","Generic statutory reconciliation of correction/deletion/satisfaction communications, report exclusions, and HMO incorporation."],["B016 — Conditional unenforceability","A qualifying violation can invoke express void-and-unenforceable text.","No automatic retroactivity, refund, damages, or revival of principal through .450’s proviso.","Complete generic interpretation of .475/.400, temporal reach, .450 interaction, and federal preemption."],["B017 — Private CPA recovery","Express statutory CPA treatment can satisfy specified public-interest/deceptive-practice components.","Do not infer business/property injury, causation, standing, or an award.","Complete generic CPA remedial/incorporation provisions; judicial construction remains outside this pass."],["B018 — Charity penalties","Statute and rule supply sanctions with different wording and references.","No automatic fixed sanction, private award, or expansion of a stale cross-reference.","Formal rule/statute reconciliation and applicable chapter 34.05 administrative procedure."],["B019 — Medical liens","A qualifying traumatic-injury recovery may be subject to the defined lien route.","No general lien on every asset, automatic priority, perfected lien, or calculable recovery share.","Generic lien-priority, notice, fee-base, release, and charity-pendency interpretation; no records or actual recovery."],["B020 — Assignment and refunds","The rule provides a conditional excess-payment refund.","Do not assume who must refund after assignment, or that application-time-only eligibility fits the service-time refund clause.","Generic authority on hospital/assignee refund allocation and newer statutory income-time interaction."],["B021 — Collection actor","CAA licensee duties depend on the statutory actor category.","Original creditor, affiliate, billing vendor, lawyer, and out-of-state collector labels are insufficient alone.","Complete relevant generic licensing/FDCPA incorporation in a separate scope inquiry; no provider/license lookup."],["B022 — Future procedure","Enacted future chapter 4.74 must be treated separately from current law.","No current medical pleading obligation inferred from January 2027 text.","Complete future effective/application/transition clauses and medical complaint provision when that later component is authorized."],["B023 — Rulemaking currency","The read July instrument is a proposal; the displayed code retains old rules.","An intended adoption date, search excerpt, or later inaccessible page is not an operative final order.","Authenticate the exact supplemental WSR identity and any final CR-103/adoption order through an ordinary official route."],["B024 — Federal hospital duties","State hospital duties are established only to the read state-law extent.","No federal tax-exempt-hospital or emergency-care outcome inferred.","Complete 26 U.S.C. 501(r), 26 C.F.R. 1.501(r)-1 through -7, and 42 U.S.C. 1395dd scope/exceptions in separate inquiries."],["B025 — Insurance and surprise billing","Insurance liability and charity responsibility remain separate categories.","No EOB, coverage, network, surprise-billing, or balance-billing conclusion.","Complete applicable chapter 48.49 RCW, chapter 48.43 coverage provisions, and relevant No Surprises Act/regulations."],["B026 — Federal reporting/collection","State reporting and CAA findings stand only within the read state texts.","No FCRA preemption, FDCPA coverage, Reg F compliance, or federal medical-reporting-rule status conclusion.","Complete 15 U.S.C. 1681-series preemption/reporting provisions; 1692a, 1692f, 1692g and relevant Regulation F clauses. Any guidance relied upon later requires withdrawal/status review."],["B027 — Public benefits, bankruptcy, military, disability, privacy","These remain independent dependencies.","No federal eligibility, discharge, stay, rate protection, privacy exception, or accommodation finding.","Separate complete Medicare/Medicaid, Bankruptcy Code, SCRA, disability/language-access, HIPAA, and Washington health-data/privacy provisions as relevant."],["B028 — Territorial and special legal systems","Washington statutory roles are described; actual territorial nexus is held.","No uniform local/tribal/interstate result or contract choice-of-law conclusion.","Generic jurisdiction, tribal, interstate, local, and contract-incorporation authority; no entity or record investigation."],["B029 — Nonhospital medical sectors","Broad medical-debt language may reach beyond hospital charity care.","No automatic dental, ambulance, clinic, or professional charity entitlement or exclusion.","Relevant Title 18/ambulance and sector-specific billing statutes, with complete provider definitions and exceptions."],["B030 — Nonwaiver and retaliation","The read hospital rule protects the specified care/treatment complaint process.","Do not turn it into every conceivable billing-retaliation or nonwaiver cause.","Exact generic nonwaiver/retaliation statutes and private-remedy authority, if separately pursued."]]},{"headers":["Analytical field","Entry"],"index":14,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Analytical field","Entry"],["Governing statutory component",""],["Source identifier and exact subsection",""],["Version and application clause",""],["Institutional category predicate",""],["Charge/service category predicate",""],["Applicable provider/facility definition",""],["Applicable collection-actor definition",""],["Third-party-coverage incorporation",""],["Family/income definition authority",""],["Poverty-guideline edition authority",""],["Institutional-tier authority",""],["Asset-consideration authority",""],["Screening/determination stage",""],["Documentation rule",""],["Notice or receipt trigger",""],["Collection-pause provision",""],["Exception or competing provision",""],["Billing/itemization authority",""],["Charge/interest authority",""],["Reporting restriction",""],["Assignment/refund dependency",""],["Remedy and required predicates",""],["Counting or rounding authority",""],["Unresolved incorporation",""],["Exact next generic authority inquiry",""]]},{"headers":["Requested scope item","Disposition","Source/claim/branch links","Exact retained gap or exclusion"],"index":15,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Requested scope item","Disposition","Source/claim/branch links","Exact retained gap or exclusion"],["1 — Hospital-charity statutory scope","Answered, text only","S001–S004; C001–C003; B001","Actual institution/care classification excluded."],["1 — Acute versus behavioral hospital","Answered with incorporation limits","C002; S003–S004","Complete special licensing and tribal attestation regime not completed."],["1 — Professional/clinic/nonhospital charges","Partial","C003, C010; B001, B008, B029","Professional-service exception read; all nonhospital sector laws remain separate."],["1 — Medical debt versus charity care","Answered","C001, C008–C010","No debt or charge classified."],["1 — Insurance/third-party coverage","Partial","C007, C015–C017, C112","Full coverage/appeal and federal definitions held."],["1 — Residency/territorial conditions","Partial","S032; C013; B010, B028","Full residency interpretation inaccessible; immigration and actual nexus held."],["1 — Collection actor/licensee/original creditor","Answered to definitions","C011–C012; B021","Complete licensing and federal out-of-state incorporation not completed."],["2 — Mandatory assistance policy and screening","Answered","C014–C017, C033–C035","New statutory bands versus old rule cross-references remain B007."],["2 — Presumptive/obvious-indigency treatment","Answered narrowly","C037–C038; B009","No universal presumptive algorithm authenticated."],["2 — Institutional tiers","Answered as legal predicates","C018–C024","No tier assignment or population/bed facts."],["2 — Income/family/FPL definitions","Partial","C004–C006, C030–C032","Fractional bands, year selection, household construction, rounding held."],["2 — Annual poverty publication","Answered, publication only","S031; C030","No monetary threshold selected."],["2 — Asset thresholds/exclusions","Answered","C025–C029; Q006–Q007","CMS reporting incorporation and actual asset treatment held."],["2 — Language/posting/web/bill notice","Answered","C045–C047","Complete federal/state language-access overlay held."],["2 — Documentation and burden","Answered","C028, C036–C039","Actual sufficiency excluded."],["2 — Final determination","Answered","C040, C112","Insurance appeal merits and factual completion held."],["2 — Appeal/review","Answered with version hold","C041–C042","Higher-band application of older cross-reference unresolved."],["2 — Pending collection limitations","Answered by separate actor/trigger","C033–C035, C042, C062","Intersections retained in B011–B013."],["3 — Estimate/charge information","Answered narrowly","C050–C052","Not full price-transparency, insurance, or itemized-billing law."],["3 — Hospital/professional billing distinction","Answered","C003, C051–C052","Actual separation, ownership, and fee entitlement excluded."],["3 — Charity adjustment and payment plans","Answered with old-rule qualification","C019–C029, C053","No universal current payment formula or general plan entitlement."],["3 — Refunds","Partial","C044; B007, B020","Assignment allocation and newer-band/service-time interaction held."],["3 — Interest and added charges","Answered to read limits","C063–C067","Entitlement, lawful base, compounding, contracts, public-interest incorporation held."],["3 — Insured/uninsured/underinsured liability","Partial","C001, C007, C015–C017","No coverage determination or full insurance statute investigation."],["4 — Agency notices and itemization","Answered","C055–C058","No notice or request prepared."],["4 — Pause/resumption and repeat requests","Answered with interaction holds","C057–C062","Separate exceptions retained; actual pendency/receipt excluded."],["4 — Assignment/transfer timing","Answered","C054","Exact sale/refinancing/transfer characterization remains B013."],["4 — Interest/fees after assignment","Answered to statutory restrictions","C063–C067, C074","No actual lawful charge or collectible amount."],["4 — Suit/enforceability","Partial, medical-specific only","C069–C075, C101","Full ordinary court, debt-buyer pleading, judgment validity, and future procedure excluded."],["4 — Garnishment interface","Answered narrowly","C060, C062, C075","No wage/bank exemption rerun; valid-writ predicate held."],["4 — Medical lien","Answered statutory route","C076–C081","Ownership, perfection, priority, recovery, and actual filing excluded."],["4 — Credit reporting","Answered state text; federal interface open","C068–C073, C108","FCRA/preemption, correction/deletion, temporal construction held."],["5 — DOH oversight and assistance appeal","Answered","C041–C042, C048–C049, C084–C087","Complete administrative procedure and actual review outcome held."],["5 — CPA and fee-forfeiture remedies","Answered to conditions","C074, C088–C091, C109","Standing, causation, proof, recovery, duplication, and judicial construction held."],["5 — Knowledge/intent and penalty predicates","Answered with reconciliation gap","C085–C087; Q032–Q035","Stale cross-references and fixed-rule/discretionary-statute interaction open."],["5 — Nonwaiver/anti-retaliation","Partial","C092–C093; B030","Only specific patient-rights text authenticated; universal theory not established."],["6 — Nonhospital professional/dental/ambulance","Identified, separate","B029","Complete sector-specific laws remain required."],["6 — Surprise/balance billing and insurance","Excluded beyond indispensable definitions","B025","No EOB/plan/network/coverage facts or complete regime."],["6 — Federal 501(r)/EMTALA/No Surprises","Held","B024–B025","Complete operative federal scope and exceptions not read."],["6 — FCRA/FDCPA/Reg F","Held","B026","No full federal classification or current federal rule-status finding."],["6 — Benefits/bankruptcy/military/disability/privacy","Held","B027","Separate complete generic inquiries required."],["6 — CFPB guidance withdrawal","Not relied upon","C107; B026","No circular, bulletin, advisory opinion, or federal medical-reporting rule used as law."],["6 — Local/tribal/interstate/contracts","Held","B028","No uniformity or actual nexus conclusion."],["6 — Judicial construction","Excluded throughout","All branches","No cases, opinions, dockets, parties, or enforcement records investigated."],["7 — Current official operative bodies","Answered within recorded read bounds","S001–S019, S037","Codified display is not an exhaustive later-amendment or judicial-status certification."],["7 — Material adopted originals","Answered substantially","S020–S030, S038–S041","Older rule originals and specified historical incorporations remain gaps."],["7 — Proposed/future status","Answered with precise latest-proposal gap","C099–C103","October supplemental proposal identity/body not fully authenticated."],["7 — Direct URLs/pinpoints/read extent","Supplied visibly","Source register","Parsed PDFs not represented as pixels."],["7 — Failures/alternative routes","Supplied visibly","Log below","One inadvertent duplicate failed route disclosed."],["Registry dimension 6 and entire Washington dossier","Not accepted or completed by this pass","Scope boundary","All other sectors, prior holds, and unexamined regimes remain open."]]},{"headers":["Log ID","Route/topic","Result and use"],"index":16,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Log ID","Route/topic","Result and use"],["R001","Official RCW 70.170 chapter and individual-section routes","Individual .020/.060/.070 bodies and notes read; chapter-route failure separately logged."],["R002","Official WAC 246-453 chapter and individual sections","Current displayed chapter read; individual definitions/procedure/criteria/schedule/policy/penalty sections checked."],["R003","Linked 2022 and 2018 session laws","Expanded tiers, service-date application, notice amendments, and effective clauses authenticated."],["R004","Linked 2024/2025 hospital-definition and emergency-care originals","Selected incorporated definitions and changed operative clauses authenticated without full hospital-law expansion."],["R005","Hospital, behavioral-hospital, health-care-provider/facility, and HMO definition routes","Relevant complete definitions read; incomplete further incorporations registered."],["R006","Medical-debt/collection-agency definitions and prohibited-practice clauses","Current medical notices, itemization, pauses, reporting, fee restrictions, and exceptions read."],["R007","Current transfer/furnishing statutes and 2025 medical-debt original","120-day transfer rule distinguished from reporting prohibition and conditional unenforceability."],["R008","Consumer-report definitions, purposes, prohibited information, and exceptions","Complete relied-on state reporting clauses read; no federal reporting status imported."],["R009","Medical interest, consumer-judgment interest, execution definitions, and arrest limitation","Medical-specific interfaces read; no ordinary judgment-clock or garnishment redo."],["R010","General collection fee forfeiture, public-debt collection, injunction, discipline incorporation","Complete selected clauses read; public fee benchmarks distinguished from consumer authority."],["R011","Charge estimates, hospital discharge information, and provider-based clinic fees","Complete current sections and material 2009/2021 originals read."],["R012","Medical-lien individual sections and 2015 original","Complete .010–.060 and material amendment read; no lien record or actual recovery."],["R013","CPA/private remedy/public-interest/exclusion sections and hospital patient rights","Complete selected operative clauses read; broader remedies and construction held."],["R014","HHS 2026 poverty publication through ordinary official routes","Complete Federal Register notice and official PDF read; no financial input selected."],["R015","Generic residency/geographic-restriction interpretation search","Official WSR notice read; underlying interpretation inaccessible."],["R016","2026 charity-rule proposals, agency rulemaking pages, and WSR agency table","July proposal status read; later supplemental proposal remained discovery/access gap."],["R017","2026 medical-debt and charity-related legislative-status searches","SB 5993/SB 5959/HB 2250 histories read as status evidence, not enacted law."],["R018","2026 adopted definition/future debt-action originals","Material effective/transition clauses distinguished; future text not applied currently."],["R019","2021 transparency-act funding condition","Adopted budget §222(32) read and linked to the act’s specific-funding condition."],["R020","Historical WAC agency filing/index routes","Index entries and current credits read; original scan/large-PDF limitations logged."],["R021","Final targeted cross-checks","Current tier/asset language, itemization/pendency exceptions, reporting exceptions, interest, liens, and penalty wording rechecked."],["R022","Excluded research","No actual provider, hospital roster, license status, private policy, application, bill, health record, credit report, contract, case/opinion/docket, or enforcement record investigated. No CFPB guidance relied upon."]]},{"headers":["Discovery item","Literal route","Disposition"],"index":17,"links":[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm"},{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress"},{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm"}],"row_links":[[],[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm"}],[{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress"}],[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm"}],[],[]],"rows":[["Discovery item","Literal route","Disposition"],["2026 WAC agency table","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/tbl26-246.htm","Read as an index showing proposal entries. Not an adoption order or independent operative text."],["DOH later charity-rule progress page","https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care/charity-care-rules-progress","Search output described an October 20, 2026 supplemental proposal, but displayed conflicting 26-21-270 and 26-21-070 identifiers. Page body was inaccessible. Neither identifier is treated as a fully read operative instrument."],["Historical DOH filing index","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/Health,%20Department%20of.htm","Relevant 1991/1994 entries read as discovery and provenance only."],["Proposed 2021 budget amendment returned during funding search","Generic legislative search result","Not used as funding proof. The adopted session law in S041 supplied that proof."],["Generic agency guides","DOH and Attorney General routes below","Search excerpts were not elevated into completed substantive readings."]]},{"headers":["Failure ID","Exact route and observed limitation","Different ordinary route / final disposition"],"index":18,"links":[{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true"},{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090"},{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true"},{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500"},{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc&utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine=&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc"},{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm"},{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15"},{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care"},{"href":"https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare"},{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf"},{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf"}],"row_links":[[],[{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true"}],[{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090"}],[{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true"}],[{"href":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500","text":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500"}],[{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc&utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine=&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc"}],[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm"}],[{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf"}],[],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15"}],[{"href":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care"}],[{"href":"https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare"}],[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf"}],[]],"rows":[["Failure ID","Exact route and observed limitation","Different ordinary route / final disposition"],["F001","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170&full=true — internal/inaccessible response.","Individual .020/.060/.070 pages succeeded. Only those read bodies resolve the gap."],["F002","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.090 — individual route failed.","Official full chapter succeeded; complete .090 read there."],["F003","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44&full=true — chapter route failed.","Individual .010–.060 pages succeeded."],["F004","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.500 — inaccessible.","Full chapter route succeeded and supplied complete .500. The failed individual route was inadvertently retried once during final checking and failed again; this was a process deviation from the requested no-identical-retry limit. No bypass or further retry occurred."],["F005","https://doh.wa.gov/about-us/rulemaking/rulemaking-activity?combine=&field_rules_status_value=All&order=field_wsr&sort=desc — 403.","Official July WSR proposal and legislative WAC table readable; latest adoption not established."],["F006","DOH charity-rule progress URL in discovery table — 403.","Ordinary official route https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2026/21/26-21-270.htm also inaccessible. Exact alternate-identifier search did not yield a readable official body. Gap retained."],["F007","https://doh.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/CharityCareISCC2301.pdf — 403.","WSR 23-19-065 adoption notice readable. It does not replace a complete reading of the underlying interpretation."],["F008","HHS ASPE poverty-guideline page — 403.","Federal Register HTML and GovInfo official PDF succeeded; complete 2026 notice read."],["F009","https://www.govinfo.gov/app/frtoc/2026-01-15 — no usable indexed body returned.","Ordinary public GovInfo document PDF succeeded."],["F010","https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/healthcare-washington/hospital-and-patient-data/hospital-patient-information-and-charity-care — 403.","Current statutes/rules supplied core duties. Guide-specific explanations, rounding, and operational complaint information not treated as read."],["F011","https://www.atg.wa.gov/charitycare — 403.","No guide-based immigration or complete consumer-remedy conclusion adopted."],["F012","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/WSRAgencyFilings/Health,%20Department%20of/91-05-048.pdf — scan returned no operative parsed text.","Screenshot attempts for pages 0–2 returned placeholders rather than viewable image content. No pixel reading claimed. Current rule bodies and credits remain the readable evidence."],["F013","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/1978-1996/94-12.pdf — large-document/content-length failure.","Index and current rule credits read; complete adopted original remains held."],["F014","Some long retrieval batches exceeded output display limits.","Relevant operative portions were reopened in bounded segments. Unseen output was not treated as read, and no PDF parsing was represented as visual inspection."]]}],"claims":[{"claim_id":"S_WA-P15-C001","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_WA-P15-C001","Precise proposition":"Statutory charity care concerns medically necessary hospital care for an indigent person after available third-party coverage, including inability to pay relevant deductibles or coinsurance.","Sources/pinpoints":"S001, .020(1), (4), (7); S002, -010(4)–(7).","Conditions and limits":"Medical necessity, coverage, and financial predicates are not established by a bill’s label."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_predicate_checked_other_parts_history_application_held","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["charity_definitions","rule_definitions"],"scope":"No every-subclaim acceptance. Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. Definedactor/federal/special-regime/oldrule-newstatute/judicial/actual predicates remain held.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"claim_id":"S_WA-P15-C002","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_WA-P15-C002","Precise proposition":"The charity chapter incorporates the hospital definition and includes the specified behavioral-health-hospital category. Acute-hospital, behavioral-hospital, clinic, nursing, birthing, and residential-treatment categories are not interchangeable.","Sources/pinpoints":"S001 .020(3); S003 .020(9), .090; S004 .455–.460.","Conditions and limits":"Renumbered cross-reference identified; complete special licensing/tribal application remains held. B001."},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_text_reconciled_not_fresh_primary_verification","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"No every-subclaim acceptance. Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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B001."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_predicate_checked_other_parts_history_application_held","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["rule_old_schedule_professional_exception"],"scope":"No every-subclaim acceptance. Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. Definedactor/federal/special-regime/oldrule-newstatute/judicial/actual predicates remain held.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"claim_id":"S_WA-P15-C066","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_WA-P15-C066","Precise proposition":"Public entities have a separate written-contract collection-agency route with prior attempted notice and a minimum elapsed period.","Sources/pinpoints":"S008 .500(1)–(4).","Conditions and limits":"No public institution or debt is classified; no transplantation to private medical debt."},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_text_reconciled_not_fresh_primary_verification","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"No every-subclaim acceptance. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. Definedactor/federal/special-regime/oldrule-newstatute/judicial/actual predicates remain held.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"claim_id":"S_WA-P15-C071","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_WA-P15-C071","Precise proposition":"Section .400 excludes the specified HMO-owned/operated hospital when providing prepaid care to the stated enrollees.","Sources/pinpoints":"S003 .400(4); S007.","Conditions and limits":"This section-specific exclusion is not imported into .475 or the Collection Agency Act. HMO qualification incorporation remains held."},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_predicate_checked_other_parts_history_application_held","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["hospital_billing_furnishing_HMO_exception"],"scope":"No every-subclaim acceptance. Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. Definedactor/federal/special-regime/oldrule-newstatute/judicial/actual predicates remain held.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"claim_id":"S_WA-P15-C074","area_numbers":[66],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"S_WA-P15-C074","Precise proposition":"A violation of .250/.260 in collecting a claim triggers .450’s loss of specified fees/interest for the licensee, client, and later collectors, while the section separately preserves principal.","Sources/pinpoints":"S008 .450; S026 §3.","Conditions and limits":"The principal proviso is not assumed to revive debt independently void under .475/.400. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. 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Published2018/2022notes only forC094/C095, not original-act fresh authentication. Definedactor/federal/special-regime/oldrule-newstatute/judicial/actual predicates remain held.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}}],"sources":[{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S001","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.070","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.070&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S001","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Hospital charity care, RCW 70.170.020, .060, .070. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.020; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.060; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.170.070","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete .020(1)–(7), .060(1)–(13), .070(1)–(3), displayed credits and notes.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. Material credits: .020—2024 c.121 §28, 2022 c.197 §1, 2018 c.263 §1; .060—2025 c.182 §3, 2022 c.197 §2, 2018 c.263 §2; .070—1989 1st ex.s. c.9 §507. Reviser notes expose renumbered and repealed cross-references. Material originals in S020–S024. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["charity_definitions","charity_policies_tiers_assets_notices","charity_penalties_and_notes"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S002","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453&full=true","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453-010&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S002","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington DOH/Washington Legislature, Hospital charity care, chapter 246-453 WAC. https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-453&full=true","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete displayed operative sections -001, -010, -020, -030, -040, -050, -060, -070, -080, -090 and chapter disposition information; selected individual section pages also read.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current displayed rules retain older thresholds. Material credits include WSR 91-05-048, filed February 14, 1991, effective March 17, 1991, and WSR 94-12-089, filed June 1, 1994, effective July 2, 1994. Original-rule access gaps and 2026 proposal gap remain. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+6"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["rule_definitions","rule_screening_appeal_refund","rule_documentation","rule_old_tiers","rule_old_schedule_professional_exception","rule_emergency","rule_policy_reporting_penalties"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S003","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.400","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.450","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.400&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.450&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S003","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Hospital licensing definitions and billing information, chapter 70.41 RCW. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41&full=true; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.400; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.41.450","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete .020(9), .090, .400(1)–(4), .450; relevant notes. Other chapter text was not treated as completed hospital-law coverage.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. Material credits: .020—2025 c.182 §4; .400—2025 c.145 §5 and 2006 c.60 §2; .450—2009 c.529 §2. Full licensing history not authenticated. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["hospital_billing_furnishing_HMO_exception"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S004","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.455","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.460","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.455&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.460&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S004","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Behavioral health hospital definitions/licensing gateway. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.455; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=71.12.460","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete .455 definitions and .460 licensing/exception clauses.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. .455 material amendment: 2024 c.121 §19; .460 includes 2024 c.204 §1. The tribal attestation and incorporated tribal-definition regime were not completed. No actual institutional classification. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S005","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S005","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Health-care information definitions, RCW 70.02.010. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.02.010","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete relied-on current definitions of health care, facility, provider, patient, and person; corresponding displayed future definitions inspected.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current version displayed until June 30, 2027; future version displayed effective that date. Credits include 2024 c.209 §31 and future 2025 c.58 §5128. The future act’s complete application/effective chain was not read; future text is not applied. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S006","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S006","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Health-care insurance definitions, RCW 48.43.005. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.43.005","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete relied-on subsections (28)–(31), including facility/provider and ground-ambulance distinctions; credits.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code incorporates 2026 c.165 §14. The federal additional-facility incorporation and every underlying professional-license chapter were not completed. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S007","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S007","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, HMO definitions, RCW 48.46.020. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=48.46.020","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete definitions (1)–(23), including HMO, enrollee, carrier, and prepaid arrangements.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; credits include 2012 c.211 §22. Qualification provisions .030/.040 were not completed. Used to bound, not establish, the .400 HMO exception. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S008","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S008","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Collection Agency Act, chapter 19.16 RCW. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.100; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16.250; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.16&full=true","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete .100; .250 introduction and relied-on (8), (9), (15), (16), (21), (22), (27)–(29); complete .440, .450, .460, .470, .480, .500, .510, .900.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. Material credits: 2025 c.145 §§1,3; 2019 c.227 §§3,4; .450 amendment in 2020 c.30; .500 credits 2011 c.57 §2, 1997 c.387 §1, 1982 c.65 §1. Complete licensing, debt-buyer litigation, and out-of-state federal-incorporation coverage remain open. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+3"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["licensee_gate_and_general_notice","medical_itemization_pendency_reporting"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S009","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.475","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.475&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S009","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Medical-debt transfer and furnishing, RCW 70.54.470–.475. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.470; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=70.54.475","Actual read bounds and use":"Both sections complete.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. .470: 2019 c.227 §7. .475: 2025 c.145 §2. The latter has no express local definitions cross-reference; its exact cross-chapter construction is held. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["furnishing_conditional_unenforceability"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S010","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.020","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.040","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.040&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S010","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Consumer reporting definitions, permissible purposes, prohibited information. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.010; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.020; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.182.040","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete relied-on .010 consumer/report/CRA definitions and report exclusions; complete .020 and .040.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; medical amendment in 2025 c.145 §4. Federal preemption, reporting disputes, and full state reporting remedies not completed. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_codified_primary_body_checked_only_with_all_original_history_application_holds","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":["CRA_medical_information_exception_scope"],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S011","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.020","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S011","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Interest, RCW 19.52.010–.020. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.010; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.52.020","Actual read bounds and use":"Both sections complete; medical subsections .010(2), .020(4) relied upon.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; medical provisions from 2019 c.227 §§5–6. Other loan/lease branches read only to prevent transfer of their rules into medical debt. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S012","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S012","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Interest on judgments, RCW 4.56.110. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=4.56.110","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete (1)–(6) and notes; (1)/(5) used.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; consumer branch from 2019 c.371 §1. No judgment validity, duration, renewal, accrual computation, or historical judgment classification. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S013","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S013","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Execution definitions, RCW 6.01.060. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.01.060","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete section; consumer debt and medical-debt incorporation used.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; relevant 2019 c.371 definition amendment also inspected. No wage, bank, or property-exemption result imported. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S014","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S014","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Supplemental proceedings—medical-debt arrest limitation, RCW 6.32.010. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=6.32.010","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete section; subsection (4) used.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; medical amendment 2019 c.227 §2. Other supplemental-proceeding mechanics not offered as this pass’s coverage. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S015","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.020","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.030","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.040","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.050","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.060","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.020&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.030&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.040&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.050&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.060&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S015","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Medical liens. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.010; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.020; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.030; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.040; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.050; https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=60.44.060","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete .010–.060.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. .010 credits include 1987 c.185 §36, 1975 1st ex.s. c.250 §1, 1937 c.69 §1. Material .020/.060 changes authenticated in 2015 c.201. 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Material private-remedy/public-interest amendments: 2009 c.371. Full CPA, court jurisdiction, limitations, and judicial elements not completed. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+3"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S017","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-141","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001&utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-141&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S017","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington DOH, Hospital licensing scope and patient rights. https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-001; https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=246-320-141","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete both sections.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. Credits include WSR 09-07-050, effective April 11, 2009; -141 also WSR 14-02-040, effective January 23, 2014. Adopted originals not read. Care/treatment complaint rights are not enlarged into a universal debt-collection retaliation remedy. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S018","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true","https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S018","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Department of Licensing, Collection-agency rules, chapter 308-29 WAC. https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=308-29&full=true","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete -010, -070, -080; bounded chapter search for medical-specific text.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code. -070/-080: WSR 01-11-132, effective June 22, 2001; -010: WSR 21-03-046, effective February 14, 2021. General satisfaction-reporting rule is not treated as permission to violate later medical-reporting statutes. \napp.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S019","urls":["https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052","https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S019","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Washington Legislature, Hospital information reporting, RCW 43.70.052. https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=43.70.052","Actual read bounds and use":"Complete (7), (8)–(13), selected (1); only quarterly charity-application reporting relied upon here.","Edition/status, credits, effective/application limits":"Current code; 2021 c.162 §1. Funding contingency traced through S039/S041. No full hospital-data/privacy regime claim. \napp.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S020","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S020","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2022 c.197, SHB 1616. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2021-22/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1616-S.SL.pdf?cite=2022+c+197+s+1","Actual read bounds":"Cover index 0; complete §§1–4, pp.1–8/indexes 1–8.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective June 9, 2022. §4 applies expanded law to care on/after July 1, 2022 and preserves prior law for earlier care. §3’s study expiration is separate. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S021","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S021","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2018 c.263, SSB 6273. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6273-S.SL.pdf?cite=2018+c+263+s+1","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–5/indexes 1–5.","Status and material application":"Enacted; §3 effective October 1, 2018. Notice and income-time provisions distinguished from later tier amendments. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S022","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S022","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2024 c.121, ESSB 5271. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5271-S.SL.pdf?cite=2024+c+121+s+19","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete §19, pp.43–45/indexes 43–45; §28, pp.79–80/indexes 79–80; closing repeal provision at p.106/index 106.","Status and material application":"Enacted; cover effective June 6, 2024. Selected hospital/charity definitions only; not the entire 107-page instrument. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S023","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S023","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2025 c.182, ESSB 5557. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5557-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+182+s+3","Actual read bounds":"Cover; §3’s changed emergency-transfer clause, pp.2–3/indexes 2–3; §4(9) hospital definition, pp.9–10/indexes 9–10; §§5–6, p.11/index 11.","Status and material application":"Enacted; immediate effective date April 29, 2025. Not a claim that every clause of .060 was newly enacted in 2025. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S024","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S024","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2025 c.145, ESSB 5480—medical debt. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5480-S.SL.pdf?cite=2025+c+145+s+1","Actual read bounds":"Cover; §1 medical definition, pp.3–4/indexes 3–4; complete §2, p.4/index 4; complete material §3(28)–(29), pp.13–15/indexes 13–15; §§4–6, pp.15–17/indexes 15–17; selected other §3 clauses.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective July 27, 2025. No express general retroactivity clause found in the read closing provisions. Historical-furnishing application and federal preemption remain held. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S025","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S025","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2019 c.227, SHB 1531—medical debt. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+227+s+7","Actual read bounds":"Cover; §§1–2, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2; §5(2), §6, §7, pp.15–17/indexes 15–17; selected medical collection language elsewhere.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective July 28, 2019. Existing-interest transition expressly read. The former reporting waiting period is historical, superseded by S024. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S026","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S026","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2020 c.30, SHB 2476. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/2476-S.SL.pdf?cite=2020+c+30+s+4","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete §§3–5, pp.5–6/indexes 5–6.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective June 11, 2020. §5 expressly prospective for relevant claims purchased by debt buyers on/after that date. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S027","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S027","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2019 c.371, SHB 1602. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/House/1602-S.SL.pdf?cite=2019+c+371+s+1","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete §1, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2; relevant §2 definitions, pp.2–3/indexes 2–3; closing text inspected.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective July 28, 2019. Used only for consumer-judgment-interest and definition history, not a garnishment rerun. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S028","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S028","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2009 c.371, SSB 5531. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/5531-S.SL.pdf?cite=2009+c+371+s+1","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete §§1–3, pp.1–2/indexes 1–2.","Status and material application":"Enacted; effective July 26, 2009; application to causes accruing on/after that date. No accrual analysis performed. \nlawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"original_researcher_attributed_source_record_reconciled_not_freshly_verified","coordinator_review":{"at":"2026-10-29T10:29:27.934533+00:00","review_file":"[internal evidence reference]","source_checks":"[internal evidence reference]","selected_evidence_groups":[],"scope":"Exact selected subsection bodies only; no whole multi-URL source group/history/federal/current-law/application certification.","researcher_record_unchanged":true}},{"source_id":"S_WA-P15-S029","urls":["https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14","https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14&utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"S_WA-P15-S029","Issuer/title and literal URL":"Washington Legislature, 2026 c.165, SSB 6248. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Laws/Senate/6248-S.SL.pdf?cite=2026+c+165+s+14","Actual read bounds":"Cover; complete relied-on §14(28)–(31), p.19/index 19; §15 effective provision, pp.23–24/indexes 23–24.","Status and material application":"§14 effective June 11, 2026; §§1–13 effective January 1, 2027. 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