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Restricting the practice of conversion therapy.
Changing the designation of the state behavioral health authority from the department of social and health services to the health care authority and transferring the related powers, functions, and duties to the health care authority and the department of health.
Concerning health care for Pacific Islanders residing in Washington under a compact of free association.
Requiring fair reimbursement for chiropractic services.
Concerning insurance coverage of tomosynthesis or three-dimensional mammography.
Requiring coverage for hearing instruments under public employee and medicaid programs.
Providing women with timely information regarding their breast health.
Concerning requests for medical records to support an application for social security benefits.
Concerning midwifery and doula services for incarcerated women.
Requiring health plans to cover, with no cost sharing, all preventive services required to be covered under federal law as of December 31, 2016.
Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health services.
Addressing fair dental insurance practices.
Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health services.
Addressing prescription drug cost transparency.
Concerning dental laboratories.
Modernizing substance use disorder professional practice.
Requiring training for long-term care providers on the needs of the LGBTQ population.
Establishing the legislative advisory committee on aging.
Addressing prescription coverage and the use of mail order service.
Addressing prescription drug cost transparency.
Concerning transition services for people with developmental disabilities.
Expanding patient access to health services through telemedicine and store and forward technology by requiring parity in payment for services.
Concerning eye care.
Notifying residents of long-term care facilities that they may install and conduct electronic monitoring in their rooms.
Concerning health care for Pacific Islanders residing in Washington under a compact of free association.
Concerning the timing and content of disclosures by continuing care retirement communities.
Concerning the age of individuals at which sale or distribution of tobacco and vapor products may be made.
Renaming the cancer research endowment authority to the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.
Concerning access to health care for all state residents with apple health on the health benefit exchange.
Establishing the healthy Washington program to provide comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage for all residents of the state.
Addressing health care financing and development of a publicly sponsored integrated delivery system by creating the access for all trust.
Creating the Washington apple care trust.
Concerning the supervision of licensed assistant behavior analysts and certified behavior technicians.
Protecting information obtained to develop or implement an individual health insurance market stability program.
Concerning the acquisition of marijuana seeds for certain qualifying patients and designated providers.
Providing for restrictions on prescriptions for opioid drugs.
Authorizing the sale of marijuana plants and seeds to qualifying patients and designated providers.
Equalizing civil monetary penalties for assisted living facilities with other long-term care providers.
Concerning notice of charity care availability at time of billing and collection.
Increasing the personal needs allowance for persons receiving state-financed care.
Concerning persons and entities to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data.
Concerning foundational public health services.
Concerning dental professions.
Concerning quality ambulance services for medicaid beneficiaries by applying the medicare payment rate for ambulance services furnished under medicaid by providers of ambulance services.
Concerning obligations of mental health professionals.
Concerning notice requirements of health care providers.
Restricting the use of step therapy by public and private insurers for drugs used in mental health treatment.
Concerning use of step therapy in prescription drug coverage.
Creating the young adult affordable health care program.
Concerning dental health services in tribal settings.
Addressing pharmacy appeals of payments made by pharmacy benefit managers.
Concerning cannabis health and beauty aids.
Developing a standardized prescription drug benefit package for individual and small group market offerings.
Creating a pilot program for protection of incapacitated persons.
Adopting certain safeguard standards for guardians of incapacitated persons.
Concerning the public disclosure of guardianship training curriculum and materials.
Concerning dental laboratories.
Addressing health insurance mandates in the individual and small group markets.
Concerning telemedicine licensure reciprocity.
Exempting certain skilled nursing facilities from certificate of need requirements for the addition of beds for a limited period of time.
Prohibiting the use of step therapy in treatments for stage four advanced, metastatic cancer.
Addressing health care services balance billing.
Protecting consumers from charges for out-of-network health care services.
Requiring health plans to cover, with no cost sharing, all preventive services required to be covered under federal law as of December 31, 2016.
Expanding the use of telemedicine to improve access to care for injured workers.
Purchasing managed dental care for medicaid enrollees.
Concerning the maintenance and disclosure of health care declarations.
Concerning postsurgical care.
Concerning balance billing.
Addressing private health plan coverage of contraceptives.
Creating an oral health pilot program for adults with diabetes and pregnant women.
Regulating disclosure of information regarding treatment or care of minors.
Concerning health profession licensure fees.
Concerning assistance with activities of daily living.
Concerning obtaining required clinical experience for licensed practical nurses who complete a nontraditional registered nurse program.
Exempting certain hospitals from certificate of need requirements for the addition of psychiatric beds until June 2019.
Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.
Addressing contracts between insurance carriers and vision care providers.
Concerning the timing and content of disclosures by continuing care retirement communities.
Addressing the department of social and health services responses to reports of abandonment, abuse, financial exploitation, or neglect in certain long-term care settings.
Addressing prescription drug cost transparency.
Reducing training requirements for developmental disability respite providers working three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.
Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
Concerning foundational public health services.
Concerning dental professions.
Concerning elder justice centers.
Limiting the authority to seek medicaid waivers.
Concerning the practice of naturopathy.
Concerning persons to whom the department of health may provide prescription monitoring program data.
Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.
Concerning notice of charity care availability at time of billing and collection.
Changing the designation of the state behavioral health authority from the department of social and health services to the health care authority and transferring the related powers, functions, and duties to the health care authority and the department of health.
Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.
Establishing the practice of dental therapy.
Concerning safe injection sites in Washington state.
Enacting the physical therapy licensure compact.
Concerning prescription drug insurance continuity of care.
Requiring the department of health to develop a hearing loss education program for health care professionals.
Requiring additional security review of the all payer claims database.
Concerning dental practice and solicitation by corporations.
Addressing nonpublic personal health information.
Concerning graduate medical education.
Concerning the number of adult family homes permitted in residential neighborhoods.
Concerning family medicine residency application criteria.
Concerning determination of the benchmark rate in Snohomish county for certain community residential services.
Protecting information obtained to develop or implement an individual health insurance market stability program.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Concerning opioid treatment programs.
Addressing private health plan coverage of contraceptives.
Concerning agreements between dentists and third parties that provide supportive services to dentists.
Reducing training requirements for developmental disability respite providers working three hundred hours or less in any calendar year.
Concerning reimbursement for services provided pursuant to community assistance referral and education services programs.
Concerning informed consent for nonemergency, outpatient, primary health care services for unaccompanied homeless youth under the federal McKinney-Vento homeless assistance act.
Concerning the expansion of nutrition programs for older adults.
Limiting nursing home direct care payment adjustments to the lowest case mix weights in the reduced physical function groups and authorizing upward adjustments to case mix weights in the cognitive and behavior groups.
Modifying or terminating a guardianship when a less restrictive alternative is available to provide for the needs of an incapacitated person.
Concerning pediatric transitional care centers.
Increasing the personal needs allowance for persons receiving state-financed care.
Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals.
Concerning health care authority auditing practices.
Concerning donations to the prescription drug donation program.
Concerning obtaining required clinical experience for licensed practical nurses who complete a nontraditional registered nurse program.
Addressing nonpublic personal health information.
Allowing alternative payment methodologies for critical access hospitals participating in the Washington rural health access preservation pilot.
Concerning curricula for persons in long-term care facilities with behavioral health needs.
Exempting certain hospitals from certificate of need requirements for the addition of psychiatric beds until June 2019.
Concerning assistance with activities of daily living.
Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.
Concerning rapid health information network data reporting.
Expanding patient access to health services through telemedicine by further defining where a patient may receive the service.
Requiring long-term care workers to be trained to recognize hearing loss.
Concerning patients' access to investigational medical products.
Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.
Enacting the physical therapy licensure compact.
Concerning water recreation facilities.
Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
Concerning dental licensure through completion of a residency program.
Concerning exemptions from the massage therapy law.
Requiring the insurance commissioner to educate breast cancer patients about the availability of insurance coverage for breast reconstruction and breast prostheses.
Concerning personnel requirements for municipal ambulance services.
Concerning substance abuse monitoring for podiatric physicians and surgeons.
Concerning physician limited licenses.
Concerning dental health services in tribal settings.
Concerning vapor products in respect to provisions concerning certain child-resistant packaging, definitions related to "vapor product," signage requirements prohibiting vapor product sales to minors, prohibition of the purchase and possession of vapor products by minors, the liquor and cannabis board's enforcement authority over vapor products, preemption of certain local regulation of vapor products, and a requirement for vendor-assisted sales of vapor products in retail establishments.
Concerning a consumer's right to assign hours to individual providers and the department of social and health services' authority to establish criteria regarding the payment of individual providers.
Allowing critical access hospitals participating in the Washington rural health access preservation pilot to resume critical access hospital payment and licensure.
Reducing public health threats that particularly impact highly exposed populations, including children and firefighters, by establishing a process for the department of health to restrict the use of toxic flame retardant chemicals in certain types of consumer products.
Concerning the regulation of continuing care retirement communities.
Establishing a maternal mortality review panel.
Providing for hospital discharge planning with lay caregivers.
Creating the parent to parent program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Addressing registration and regulation of pharmacy benefit managers.
Concerning the practice of certain East Asian medicine therapies.
Defining the administration of medication by medical assistants.
Concerning prior authorization for dental services and supplies in medical assistance programs.
Removing an expiration date concerning the filing and public disclosure of health care provider compensation.
Addressing taxes and service charges on certain qualified stand-alone dental plans offered in the individual or small group markets.
Concerning the prescription drug monitoring program.
Regulating nursing home facilities.
Addressing health care provider credentialing.
Transferring regulatory authority over independent review organizations to the insurance commissioner.
Authorizing pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptives.
Allowing a hospital pharmacy license to include individual practitioner offices and multipractitioner clinics owned and operated by a hospital and ensuring such offices and clinics are inspected according to the level of service provided.
Addressing the filing and rating of group health benefit plans other than small group plans, all stand-alone dental plans, and stand-alone vision plans by disability insurers, health care service contractors, and health maintenance organizations.
Clarifying the role of physician assistants in the delivery of mental health services.
Concerning ambulatory surgical facilities.
Allowing the prescription of schedule II controlled substances to treat certain disease states and conditions.
Updating statutes relating to the practice of pharmacy including the practice of pharmacy in long-term care settings.
Concerning ambulatory surgical facilities.
Concerning the availability of childhood immunization resources for expecting parents.
Concerning Down syndrome resources.
Increasing the availability of sexual assault nurse examiners.
Establishing a public registry for the transparency of blood establishments.
Requiring the Washington state board of massage to adopt rules to allow approved massage programs to establish transfer programs.
Concerning massage therapists.
Concerning substance abuse monitoring for licensed veterinarians, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and osteopathic physician assistants.
Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.
Concerning participation in the prescription drug donation program.
Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.
Creating a task force on patient out-of-pocket costs.
Expanding patient access to health services through telemedicine and establishing a collaborative for the advancement of telemedicine.
Allowing patients to opt out of HIV testing.
Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.
Concerning the registration and disciplining of pharmacy assistants.
Concerning health district banking.
Concerning the membership of the health technology clinical committee.
Requiring private health insurers and the medicaid program to reimburse for a twelve-month supply of contraceptive drugs.
Creating a task force on high patient out-of-pocket costs.
Concerning access to nonemergency, outpatient, primary health care services for unaccompanied homeless youth under the federal McKinney-Vento homeless assistance act.
Concerning youth substance use prevention associated with tobacco and drug delivery e-cigarettes and vapor products.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.
Addressing the authority of pharmacists to dispense prescription drugs.
Concerning benefits and exclusion within dental benefit coverage.
Concerning Down syndrome resources.
Extending the refund period for the overpayment of business and occupation taxes for certain assisted living facilities.
Promoting greater fairness for taxpayers in prescription drug costs by pursuing prices that are aligned with or lower than the negotiated prices available to the United States veterans administration.
Concerning elder justice centers.
Allowing the disclosure of health care information with persons with a close relationship with a patient.
Allowing access to investigational products by terminally ill patients participating in clinical trials.
Requiring an HPV immunization report.
Directing the health care authority to apply for a federal innovation waiver to expand an employer-based coverage option with a portable health care account.
Declaring that it is an unfair practice for any employer who provides health insurance to its employees as part of an employee's benefit package to not include contraceptive coverage as part of the benefit package, to fail to comply with federal rules adopted under the affordable care act relating to the provision of contraceptive coverage, or to discriminate against any employee based on that employee's use of any reproductive health care service, drug, or device.
Promoting transparency of prescription drug pricing and costs.
Permitting pharmacists to prescribe and dispense contraceptive patches and oral contraception.
Authorizing the use of epinephrine autoinjector devices through collaborative agreements.
Addressing third-party administrators and benefits managers.
Concerning survey requirements of ambulatory surgical facilities.
Reducing public health threats that particularly impact highly exposed populations, including children and firefighters, by establishing a process for the department of health to restrict the use of toxic flame retardant chemicals in certain types of consumer products.
Requiring the Washington state board of massage to adopt rules to allow approved massage programs to establish transfer programs.
Concerning the practice of certain East Asian medicine therapies.
Concerning dental licensure through completion of a residency program.
Providing parity in coverage for hearing disabilities.
Allowing physical therapists to perform dry needling.
Addressing health care provider credentialing.
Requiring private health insurers and the medicaid program to reimburse for a twelve-month supply of contraceptive drugs.
Modifying the nursing facility case mix classification methodology.
Concerning disclosure of provider compensation programs by health plan carriers.
Creating a training program in integrated care psychiatry.
Addressing prescription drugs and capping consumer costs.
Concerning ownership, maintenance, and operation of an office within the practice of dentistry.
Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
Defining "reasonable effort" for the purposes of health data and charity care.
Creating the Washington achieving a better life experience program.
Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.
Concerning prescription drug insurance continuity of care.
Concerning dental office support services.
Providing prenatal vitamin coverage.
Creating the interstate medical licensure compact.
Regulating nursing home facilities.
Concerning the reimbursement rate primary care providers receive to participate in medicaid.
Removing an expiration date concerning the filing and public disclosure of health care provider compensation.
Providing women with timely information regarding their breast health.
Concerning massage therapists.
Increasing opportunities for accessible and effective family planning.
Reauthorizing the medicaid fraud false claims act.
Reauthorizing the medicaid fraud false claims act.
Concerning the treatment of binge eating disorder.
Concerning health care.
Exempting hospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW that receive capital funds to operate new psychiatric services from certain certificate of need requirements.
Concerning health plan coverage of reproductive health care.
Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
Creating independent review organizations.
Addressing political subdivisions purchasing health coverage through the public employees' benefits board program.
Concerning the relationship between a health insurer and a contracting health care provider.
Concerning remediation plans for licensed health and health-related professions to resolve eligible complaints of unprofessional conduct.
Requiring notification to patients in observation status at hospitals.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Directing the health care authority to apply for federal waivers concerning health care coverage.
Establishing the bleeding disorder collaborative for care.
Enabling student volunteers to provide health care services.
Addressing health benefit plan grace periods.
Creating an investment program for individuals with disabilities.
Requiring certain health professionals to provide information on primary place of practice at the time of license renewal.
Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations.
Concerning the nursing home payment system.
Creating the board of telemedicine.
Concerning scope of practice for certified counselors and advisers.
Concerning filing requirements for large group health benefit plans, stand-alone dental plans, and stand-alone vision plans.
Establishing the family medicine residency training program.
Creating a training program in integrated care psychiatry.
Concerning the use of hydrocodone products by licensed optometrists in Washington state.
Allowing the secretary of health to intercede and stay any decision of a disciplining authority that expands scope of practice.
Clarifying that the physical therapist scope of practice does not include dry needling.
Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
Concerning health care access and medical and dental education.
Updating pharmacy provisions.
Concerning prescriptive authority of naturopaths.
Updating pharmacy provisions.
Concerning the regulation of adult family homes.
Concerning assisted living payment rates.
Concerning services provided to individuals with developmental disabilities.
Creating two elder justice center demonstration sites.
Concerning a second-party payment process for paying insurers.
Concerning cancer research.
Concerning access to highly effective contraception for patients enrolled in a medicaid-funded plan.
Prohibiting health care facilities from limiting providers' patient care.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Concerning remediation plans for licensed health and health-related professions to resolve eligible complaints of unprofessional conduct.
Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal.
Concerning the packaging, labeling, and advertising of vapor products.
Concerning federal medicaid payment reconciliations.
Concerning health care financing and development of a publicly sponsored integrated delivery system.
Addressing political subdivisions purchasing health coverage through the public employees' benefits board program.
Requiring free infectious disease testing for good samaritans.
Concerning fingerprint-based background checks for health professionals.
Addressing health insurance coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drugs.
Concerning a consumer's right to assign hours to individual providers and the department of social and health services' authority to establish criteria regarding the payment of individual providers.
Amending the patient bill of rights to ensure continuity of care.
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Allowing advanced registered nurse practitioners to sign and attest to certain documentation.
Concerning family medicine residency programs in shortage areas.
Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology.
Establishing a task force on continuity of health coverage and care.
Concerning health plan coverage of reproductive health care.
Requiring detailed enrollment data for the health benefit exchange.
Concerning the definition of the practice of dentistry.
Clarifying association health plans provisions.
Concerning youth substance use prevention associated with tobacco and drug delivery e-cigarettes and vapor products.
Removing expiration dates for training and certification exemptions for certain long-term care workers.
Concerning medicaid managed health care system payments for health care services provided by nonparticipating providers.
Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
Increasing the number of members on the board of osteopathic medicine and surgery.
Requiring reporting of infections consequent to laser in-situ keratomileusis surgery.
Concerning price agreements between contact lens manufacturers or distributors and retailers.
Establishing extended stay recovery centers.
Concerning the relationship between a health insurer and a contracting health care provider.
Concerning mid-level dental professionals.
Concerning disclosure of provider compensation programs by health plan carriers.
Concerning scope of practice for certified counselors and advisers.
Placing certain synthetic cannabimimetics into schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act.
Concerning the joint legislative executive committee on aging and disability.
Adding posttraumatic stress disorder to the terminal or debilitating medical conditions that qualify for the medical use of marijuana.
Concerning qualified health plan claims in grace periods.
Allowing authorized health care providers to prescribe epinephrine autoinjectors.
Reauthorizing the medicaid fraud false claims act.
Authorizing law enforcement and prosecutorial officials of federally recognized Indian tribes access to prescription monitoring data.
Declaring the intent for all Washingtonians to have health care coverage by 2020.
Requiring a study for funding options for long-term care services and supports.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Creating a silver alert system.
Concerning Indian tribes and dental health aide therapy services.
Concerning East Asian medicine practitioners.
Concerning the practice of East Asian medicine.
Concerning cultural competency education for health care professionals.
Concerning certificates of need appeals process.
Concerning quality assurance standards for medicaid purchasing.
Implementing a value-based system for nursing home rates.
Requiring health insurance carriers to provide notification of carrier network changes.
Modifying health benefit exchange provisions related to the aggregation or delegating the aggregation of funds that comprise the premium for a health plan.
Requiring the submission of a waiver to the federal government to create the Washington health security trust.
Concerning communication of mammographic breast density information to patients.
Restoring funding to the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program fund.
Raising licensure limits to allow assisted living facilities to serve a higher acuity resident population.
Concerning referral of medical cases to occupational therapists.
Concerning the registration and professional education of surgical technologists.
Prohibiting the use of aversion therapy in the treatment of minors.
Exempting hospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW that receive capital funds to operate new psychiatric services from certain certificate of need requirements.
Exempting hospitals licensed under chapter 70.41 RCW that receive capital funds to operate new psychiatric services from certain certificate of need requirements.
Requiring universal screening and provider payment for autism and developmental delays for children in medicaid programs.
Concerning a second-party payment process for paying insurers. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Concerning a second-party payment process for paying issuer. )
Addressing third-party payor release of health care information.
Mitigating barriers to patient access to care resulting from health insurance contracting practices.
Concerning medicaid managed health care system payments for health care services provided by nonparticipating providers.
Concerning family medicine residencies in health professional shortage areas.
Concerning provision of drugs to ambulance or aid services.
Concerning suicide prevention.
Concerning due process for adult family home licensees.
Authorizing the department of social and health services special commitment center to seek eligibility and reimbursement for health care costs covered by federal medicare, medicaid, and veterans health benefits.
Clarifying the all payer claims database to improve health care quality and cost transparency by changing certain definitions regarding data, reporting and pricing of products, responsibility of the office and lead organization, and parameters for release of information.
Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
Concerning biological products.
Addressing services provided by pharmacists.
Allowing practitioners to prescribe and distribute prepackaged emergency medications to emergency room patients when a pharmacy is not available.
Increasing access to opioid antagonists to prevent opioid-related overdose deaths.
Addressing patient medication coordination.
Concerning monitoring health and health outcomes for medicaid patients.
Concerning radiology benefit managers.
Creating an investment program for individuals with disabilities.
Removing expiration dates for training and certification exemptions for certain long-term care workers.
Permitting nursing assistants to perform simple care tasks under indirect supervision.
Concerning the prescription drug assistance foundation.
Concerning the transport of patients by ambulance to facilities other than hospitals.
Requiring specialized training for persons conducting victim interviews as part of the disciplinary process for a health professional alleged to have committed sexual misconduct.
Requiring the insurance commissioner to review barriers to offering supplemental coverage options to disabled veterans and their dependents.
Allowing advanced registered nurse practitioners to sign and attest to certain documentation.
Concerning pharmaceutical waste.
Modifying provisions related to licensing and scope of practice for dental professionals.
Concerning applied behavior analysis.
Concerning the use of hydrocodone products by licensed optometrists in Washington state.
Allowing licensed marriage and family therapist associates access to the University of Washington health sciences library.
Concerning the treatment of Lyme disease.
Concerning refilling eye drop prescriptions.
Establishing a marijuana research license.
Establishing the cannabis patient protection act.
Concerning the regulation of adult family homes.
Concerning the practice of East Asian medicine.
Authorizing law enforcement and prosecutorial officials of federally recognized Indian tribes access to prescription monitoring data.
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Requiring critical congenital heart disease screening for newborns.
Prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
Prescribing penalties for allowing or permitting unlicensed practice of massage therapy or reflexology.
Concerning referral of medical cases to occupational therapists.
Providing first responders with contact information for subscribers of life alert services during an emergency.
Authorizing palliative care in conjunction with treatment or management of chronic or life-threatening illness.
Regarding telemedicine.
Requiring all meetings of the Robert Bree collaborative to be subject to the open public meetings act.
Concerning filing requirements for large group health benefit plans, stand-alone dental plans, and stand-alone vision plans.
Concerning the effectiveness of health care purchasing and transforming the health care delivery system.
Concerning state and local agencies that obtain patient health care information.
Concerning transparency tools for consumer information on health care cost and quality.
Regulating pharmacy benefit managers and pharmacy audits.
Concerning hearing instrument fitter/dispensers.
Concerning home and community-based services programs for dependents of military service members.
Concerning the practice of midwifery.
Repealing provisions that establish the office of the insurance commissioner and replacing that office with a Washington state insurance board. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Addressing the office of the insurance commissioner and matters related to health care insurance. )
Concerning the practice of midwifery.
Concerning the treatment of eosinophilic gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Allowing physical therapists to perform spinal manipulation.
Concerning the practice of out-of-state health care professionals volunteering in Washington.
Addressing the prior authorization of health care services.
Concerning individuals with developmental disabilities who have requested a service from a program that is already at capacity.
Clarifying the practice of a phlebotomist.
Concerning suicide prevention.
Establishing dextromethorphan provisions.
Concerning safety equipment for individual providers.
Regarding expenditures from the public health supplemental account.
Developing a state Alzheimer's plan.
Concerning continuity of care for enrollees in the Washington health benefit exchange during grace periods.
Concerning each area agency on aging's oversight of timekeeping with regard to case management services.
Concerning expanding access to medicaid programs in border communities.
Requiring the department of health to develop and make available resources for pregnant women regarding prenatal nutrition.
Clarifying the requirements for health plans offered outside of the exchange.
Concerning enforcement standards for residential services and support providers.
Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.
Concerning medical marijuana.
Requiring the health care authority to develop a blueprint for the establishment of a federal basic health program.
Requiring free infectious disease testing for good samaritans.
Concerning efforts with private and public partnerships to help produce Washington's healthiest next generation.
Providing certification exemptions and training requirements for certain individual provider long-term care workers.
Concerning a study to determine the feasibility of coverage for long-term care services and support needs.
Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
Concerning disclosure of health care information.
Concerning practice settings for certified chemical dependency professionals and trainees.
Creating the breastfeeding-friendly Washington designation.
Concerning fees for health records.
Restricting the practice of sexual orientation change efforts.
Clarifying the requirements for health plans offered outside of the exchange.
Allowing dental benefits to be offered in the Washington state health benefit exchange separately or within a qualified health plan.
Clarifying employee eligibility for benefits from the public employees' benefits board and conforming the eligibility provisions with federal law.
Concerning newborn screening.
Concerning employment of persons with disabilities.
Concerning the authority of medical program directors.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Regarding telemedicine.
Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
Raising licensure limits to allow assisted living facilities to serve a higher acuity resident population.
Clarifying the scope of practice for East Asian medicine practitioners and removing certain referral requirements.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Concerning public school employees' insurance benefits reporting.
Concerning health insurance coverage options for the citizens of Washington state.
Requiring the department of health to develop and make available resources for pregnant women regarding childhood immunizations.
Concerning the medical use of cannabis.
Allowing the Washington state dental quality assurance commission to adopt rules regarding credential renewal requirements for dental professionals.
Concerning communication of mammographic breast density information to patients.
Concerning long-term planning for developmental disabilities services.
Raising licensure limits to allow assisted living facilities to serve a higher acuity resident population.
Regarding telemedicine.
Establishing a fee for certification for the residential services and supports program to cover investigative costs.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Encouraging the safe practice of public health nurses dispensing certain medications.
Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
Clarifying the scope of practice for East Asian medicine practitioners and removing certain referral requirements.
Expanding opportunities to purchase health care coverage from out-of-state carriers.
Allowing authorized health care providers to prescribe epinephrine autoinjectors.
Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal.
Addressing health plans provided through associations or member-governed groups.
Creating a silver alert system.
Concerning public hospital districts insurance coverage for commissioners.
Concerning refilling eye drop prescriptions.
Requiring navigator applicants to furnish background check information.
Concerning investigations involving vulnerable adults.
Creating the breastfeeding-friendly Washington designation for hospitals.
Concerning the protection of patient health care information in the comprehensive hospital abstract reporting system.
Requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration reclassify medical marijuana as a Schedule II drug.
Aligning the medical marijuana system with the recreational marijuana system.
Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
Including mental health prescriptions in electronic medical records.
Concerning use of epinephrine autoinjectors by good samaritans.
Providing life alert services.
Concerning insurance for enlisted members of the Washington national guard.
Concerning protection of health care information in the health benefit exchange related to navigators.
Concerning state employment of persons with disabilities.
Concerning the use of hydrocodone products by licensed optometrists in Washington state.
Allowing medicare supplemental insurance premiums to be deducted from the calculation of disposable income for the purpose of qualifying for senior property tax programs.
Concerning the practice of out-of-state health care professionals volunteering in Washington.
Preserving patient and practitioner freedom to obtain and provide health care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive practices in contracting for and managing health care delivery under health plans.
Concerning suicide prevention.
Concerning the practice of out-of-state health care professionals volunteering in Washington.
Restricting the practice of sexual orientation change efforts.
Requiring health insurance carriers to provide notification of carrier network changes.
Assisting self-employed small business owners adversely impacted by health insurance premium changes.
Consenting to medical care by a minor.
Authorizing physician assistants to perform opthalmic-related services under employment or supervision by a medical doctor or an osteopathic physician.
Providing certification exemptions and training requirements for certain individual provider long-term care workers.
Concerning efforts with private and public partnerships to help produce Washington's healthiest next generation.
Designating a disciplining authority for dental hygienists.
Concerning cultural competency education for health care professionals.
Concerning physical therapy copayment and coinsurance.
Establishing dextromethorphan provisions.
Creating a quality improvement program for the licensees of the medical quality assurance commission.
Concerning services provided by residential habilitation centers.
Concerning home and community-based services programs for dependents of military service members.
Creating the public employees' benefits board benefits account.
Clarifying employee eligibility for benefits from the public employees' benefits board and conforming the eligibility provisions with federal law.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Concerning medication synchronization and dispensing fee standardization.
Concerning Indian tribes and dental health aide therapy services.
Addressing health insurance coverage of emergency services and conforming with certain provisions of federal law.
Addressing long-term care insurance price transparency.
Concerning dental insurance for enlisted members of the Washington national guard.
Concerning the practice settings for certified chemical dependency professionals and trainees.
Concerning the treatment of eosinophilic gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Requiring the health care authority to develop a blueprint for the establishment of a federal basic health program.
Allowing physical therapists to perform spinal manipulation.
Requiring free infectious disease testing for good samaritans.
Concerning safety equipment for individual providers.
Concerning the prescription of biological products.
Calling on the drug enforcement administration to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II or lower.
Concerning the referral process in the pharmacy profession.
Concerning dispensing contraceptive drugs for medicaid enrollees.
Concerning residential habilitation center residents' transition to the community.
Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.
Addressing public employee benefits.
Concerning planning measures to provide long-term care services and supports needs of the aging population.
Convening a work group to develop a standardized clinical affiliation agreement for clinical placements for physicians and nurses.
Addressing long-term care insurance.
Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
Designating July 25th as patient safety day.
Concerning prescription information.
Allowing for redistribution of medications under certain conditions.
Concerning persons who are pursuing a course of study leading to a degree as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Providing enhanced payment to small rural hospitals that meet the criteria of a sole community hospital.
Allowing nurses and physicians to satisfy a portion of their continuing education credits through providing services to medicaid enrollees or the uninsured.
Concerning the transition of residents of residential habilitation centers.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Concerning health care services for inmates in city, county, and regional jails.
Providing access to the prescription drug monitoring database for clinical laboratories.
Concerning stand-alone dental coverage.
Concerning pharmacy benefit manager audit procedures.
Concerning informed consent and reporting of death for purposes of the death with dignity act.
Addressing wellness programs offered by a health carrier.
Allowing certain retirees to participate in the insurance programs under chapter 41.05 RCW.
Allowing certain separated plan 2 members of the retirement systems to participate in insurance plans and contracts.
Concerning the practice of midwifery.
Modifying the expiration dates that limit payments for health care services provided to low-income enrollees in state purchased health care programs by aligning them with the start of medicaid expansion.
Requiring a study on emergency department overcrowding.
Concerning the performance of spinal manipulation by physical therapists.
Requiring the department of health to study the potential to divert ambulances to urgent care facilities.
Concerning the education of surgical technologists.
Requiring the certificate of need review to include a determination of whether hospitals are able to provide a full range of legal medical services.
Addressing public employee benefits.
Requiring a study of the prescription monitoring program and its role in increasing coordination of care.
Concerning providers and facilities' participation in the provision of medical care or in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with a form developed by the department of health.
Concerning the medical use of cannabis.
Concerning planning measures to provide long-term care services and supports needs of the aging population.
Providing statutory support for medical specialty technicians in Washington state.
Requiring physicians and physician assistants to provide requested demographic information at the time of license renewal.
Addressing transparency, accountability, and affordability in the provision of essential health care services.
Concerning electronic timekeeping for in-home personal care or respite services.
Improving the quality and value of health care with greater transparency of price and quality data.
Concerning the provision of prescription drugs by direct practice providers.
Funding the prescription monitoring program from the medicaid fraud penalty account.
Concerning the federal basic health option of the affordable care act.
Developing and enforcing standards for the department of social and health services' supported living program.
Allowing dental hygienists and dental assistants to provide certain services under the supervision of a dentist.
Requiring transparency for patients regarding training and qualifications of health care professionals.
Recognizing the need for facility-based vocational services for persons with developmental disabilities.
Promoting state employee wellness and productivity.
Concerning the prescription of biological products and interchangeable biosimilar products.
Protecting children under the age of eighteen from the harmful effects of exposure to ultraviolet radiation associated with tanning devices.
Addressing the unintentional lapses of long-term care insurance policies.
Concerning mid-level dental professionals.
Concerning the scope and costs of the diabetes epidemic in Washington.
Concerning the practice of denturism.
Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.
Making the board of denturists the disciplining authority for licensed denturists.
Reducing the financial loss to emergency medical care and transportation services by ensuring direct payment for emergency transportation services.
Regarding the requirements of allopathic physician licensure.
Limiting maximum capital and reserves accumulations by health care service contractors and health maintenance organizations.
Implementing the recommendation of the developmental disabilities service system task force relating to community living safeguards.
Concerning people with disabilities who receive no paid services from the department of social and health services' division of developmental disabilities.
Implementing the recommendations of the developmental disability service system task force.
Restoring funding to in-home care services.
Addressing wellness programs under the insurance code.
Regarding transparency in patient billing.
Removing the expiration for the additional surcharge imposed on registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.
Exempting public hospital districts from certificate of need requirements.
Concerning the Washington health security trust.
Concerning public notification of local health conditions.
Concerning a business and occupation tax deduction for donated medical services.
Exempting public hospital districts from certificate of need requirements.
Modifying medical assistant provisions.
Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Eliminating the certificate of need review for all health care facilities except hospitals.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Concerning the operating expenses of the Washington health benefit exchange.
Establishing accountability measures for service coordination organizations.
Updating and aligning with federal requirements hospital health care-associated infection rate reporting.
Concerning stand-alone dental coverage.
Concerning disclosure of information by health care quality improvement programs, quality assurance programs, and peer review committees. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Concerning health care quality improvement measures. )
Implementing recommendations of the adult family home quality assurance panel.
Concerning interpretation of state law regarding rebating practices by health care entities.
Concerning the health professional loan repayment and scholarship program.
Providing that health care professional licensees may not be required to participate in any public or private third-party reimbursement program.
Concerning the program of all-inclusive care for the elderly.
Concerning credentialing and continuing education requirements for long-term care workers.
Concerning the abuse of vulnerable adults.
Concerning exemptions from licensure as a physical therapist.
Requiring ninety-day supply limits on certain drugs dispensed by a pharmacist.
Addressing the filing and public disclosure of health care provider compensation.
Addressing the Washington state health insurance pool.
Concerning prescription information.
Concerning prescription review for medicaid managed care enrollees.
Allowing for redistribution of medications under certain conditions.
Requiring hospitals to report when providing treatment for bullet wounds, gunshot wounds, and stab wounds to all patients.
Authorizing occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, dieticians, and nutritionists to participate in online access to the University of Washington health sciences library. (REVISED FOR ENGROSSED: Increasing the health professions participating in online access to the University of Washington health sciences library. )
Providing an exemption from continuing competency requirements for registered nurses who seek advanced nursing degrees.
Concerning supervision of physician assistants.
Regarding the disclosure of health care information.
Concerning prior authorization for health care services.
Concerning complex rehabilitation technology products.
Concerning operators of multiple adult family homes.
Concerning the practice of denturism.
Making the board of denturists the disciplining authority for licensed denturists.
Concerning insurance coverage of treatment of eosinophilia gastrointestinal associated disorders.
Concerning the compounding of medications for physician offices or ambulatory surgical centers or facilities to be used by a physician for ophthalmic purposes for nonspecific patients. (REVISED FOR PASSED LEGISLATURE: Changing regulations concerning the compounding of medications. )
Increasing the impaired dentist program license or renewal surcharge.
Concerning medical assistants.
Addressing the proper disposal of legal amounts of marijuana inadvertently left at retail stores holding a pharmacy license.
Concerning the provision of prescription drugs by direct practice providers.
Regarding administrative adjudicatory proceedings coming before the department of health.
Allowing dental hygienists and dental assistants to provide certain services under the supervision of a dentist.
Concerning disciplinary actions against the health professions license of the subject of a department of social and health services' finding.
Creating a joint select committee on health care oversight.
Providing certain disciplining authorities with additional authority over budget development, spending, and staffing.
Including pharmacists in the legend drug act.
Removing the expiration for the additional surcharge imposed on registered nurses and licensed practical nurses.
Clarifying the requirement that certain health professionals complete training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management.
Funding the prescription monitoring program from the medicaid fraud penalty account.
Renaming the board of pharmacy.
Authorizing Washington pharmacies to fill prescriptions written by physician assistants in other states.
Addressing long-term care insurance.