Payment card interchange fee class action settlement
July 11, 2019
This settlement resolves allegations that VISA, MasterCard and their issuing banks violated the law by charging excessive interchange fees to merchants. ... Read More >>
This settlement resolves allegations that VISA, MasterCard and their issuing banks violated the law by charging excessive interchange fees to merchants. ... Read More >>
Last week, WSHA and AWPHD staff led our 43rd Annual Rural Hospital Leadership Conference in Chelan. The conference this year was marred by the news that Ben Lindekugel, Executive Director of the Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts, died unexpectedly two days before the conference began.... Read More >>
Thank you for joining us in Chelan this year for the 43rd Annual Rural Hospital Leadership Conference! We hope you can take information from this year’s sessions back to your hospital or health system to improve the health of your community. ... Read More >>
WSHA submitted comments to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) in response to the most recent version of the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019. In our comments, WSHA opposed the act’s proposal to allow insurers to apply default payment rates for out-of-network services. ... Read More >>
Skagit Regional Health in Mount Vernon is expanding its midwifery program with the recruitment of two additional midwives, which will restart the program at its Mount Vernon clinic and expand services at its Arlington Women’s Health clinic.... Read More >>
PeaceHealth United General Medical Center in Sedro-Woolley opened a new Acute Care Rehabilitation Center July 1, 2019, with a new, private-room unit containing 10 acute rehabilitation beds.... Read More >>
Please join WithinReach and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) for the second Washington State Immunization Summit, October 8, 2019, at the Lynnwood Convention Center.... Read More >>
Membership update from the July 2, 2019 Weekly Report.... Read More >>
Recent member news from the July 2, 2019 Weekly Report.... Read More >>
In part two of the three-part series, Washington Hospital Services Industry Partner Expense Reduction Analysts (ERA) re-examine old beliefs and common misconceptions around cost management.... Read More >>