The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) updated its Outpatient Hospital Billing Guide yesterday.... Read More >>
The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) recently posted translations of its standard Notice of Balance Billing Consumer Rights in ten additional languages.... Read More >>
Rigid hospital staffing legislation currently under consideration by the Washington State Senate will make permanent the pandemic care delays in hospitals large and small across the state... Read More >>
The House and Senate on Monday, Feb. 21, released their proposed supplemental budgets for the remainder of the 2021-2023 biennium. Since the adoption of the 2021-23 budget a year ago, state revenue collections have continued to grow.... Read More >>
Unfortunately, House Bill 1868 has advanced in the Washington Legislature and is currently being considered in the Senate.... Read More >>
As a result of advocacy by WSHA and hospitals across the state in late 2021 and early 2022, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is opening Hospital Capacity Admission Units – nursing facility units staffed by the state to help move nonacute patients out of hospitals.... Read More >>
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Interim Final Rule on Nov. 5, 2021, requiring all CMS-certified facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to comply with this new emergency requirement as a condition of participation.... Read More >>
Tuesday, Feb. 15 marked the cutoff for bills to pass out of their chamber of origin. Bills still alive will next advance through committees in the opposite chamber... Read More >>
Unfortunately, the Washington State House of Representatives passed House Bill 1868 this weekend. While the bill was somewhat modified, its most onerous provisions remain, including rigid ratios that will lead to hospital care delays and increased costs... Read More >>
WSHA is asking you to join us in urging legislators to protect patient safety and access and let nurses on the ground manage patient care.... Read More >>
