WSHA’s Government Affairs team recently published an update to its Top Priority Rules Tracker, which shows the highest-priority ongoing state rulemaking activities impacting hospitals and health systems as part of its State... Read More >>
Washington State’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced a series of educational webinars about key state employment laws... Read More >>
The Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission (PQAC) issued a bulletin that contains the latest guidance from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regarding modifications to a Schedule II prescription... Read More >>
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced that it will host a series of facility-specific listening sessions between September 2022 and January 2023 as part of its Certificate of Need (CN) rulemaking... Read More >>
The purpose of this bulletin is to inform hospitals of changes made by Substitute House Bill 1893 which allows emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to practice outside of emergency settings...... Read More >>
WSHA commented on a recent preproposal draft rule for E2SHB 1688 which was passed during the 2022 legislative session. E2SHB 1688 aligns the state’s Balance Billing Protection Act with the... Read More >>
WSHA commented on the Health Care Authority’s (HCA) preproposal draft rule for ESSB 1196, which was passed during the 2021 legislative session. ESSB 1196 builds on Washington state’s telemedicine payment parity... Read More >>
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury released their interim final rule on the independent... Read More >>
Preliminary non-CPE Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) applications for state fiscal year 2023 must be submitted to Health Care Authority or before September 1, 2022 to receive consideration for the SFY... Read More >>
The annual 340B Program Recertification period for Hospitals will be August 24-September 19, 2022. The Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) requires... Read More >>
