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WSHA's focus this week includes the State Children's Health Insurance Program, collection of involuntarily detained patient information, telemedicine parity and student loan repayment for rural physicians.... Read More >>

Prospects for funding the government after Friday remain highly uncertain just hours before the current funding measure expires at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. The House of Representatives appeared poised to vote to fund the government through February 16, extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six years and repeal three taxes levied in the Affordable Care Act.... Read More >>

The 2018 legislative session has been underway for about a week and a half, and WSHA is already deeply involved in a number of key issues affecting hospitals. ... Read More >>

About six months ago, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) changed the method of collecting hospital payments for charity care assessments.... Read More >>

The Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) is in the process of revising rules regarding the geographic rating areas used for premiums for the small group and individual health insurance markets. ... Read More >>

On April 1, the Health Care Authority (HCA) will be updating the APRDRG grouper used for pricing Medicaid inpatient hospital claims from the current version 31 to version 33. ... Read More >>

Bills continue to be written, introduced, revised and scheduled at a rapid pace in Olympia. Among the issues we testified on this week was SB 6146, which concerns appropriate weapons policy.... Read More >>

The Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) and Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) Joint Opioid Safe Practices Task Force supports Gov. Inslee’s legislation (HB 2489 & SB 6150) aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic in Washington state.... Read More >>

Bills continue to be written, introduced, revised and scheduled at a rapid pace. This week, we will testify on bills related to appropriate weapons policy, partnerships and affiliations and more.... Read More >>

Chris Bandoli, Mary Kay Clunies-Ross and Chelene Whiteaker gave a brief update on the political landscape in Olympia and talked about WSHA’s priorities for the legislative session.... Read More >>