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Concerning coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Updating the definition of fetal death.
Establishing an abortion savings program.
Concerning certified medical assistants.
Increasing regulatory oversight of continuing care retirement communities.
Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding access to PANDA PANS treatment.
Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.
Concerning personnel for ambulance service interfacility specialty care transports.
Protecting patients involved in motor vehicle accidents from delayed ambulance bills.
Protecting the clinical autonomy of audiologists.
Revised for engrossed: Allowing payments to be made for services provided by any rural hospital that is located on a federally recognized Indian reservation.
Revised for 2nd substitute: Concerning the 340B drug pricing program.
Modernizing and clarifying timely payment requirements for health carriers.
Concerning certified medical assistants.
Making improvements to transparency and accountability in the prior authorization determination process.
Establishing network adequacy standards for skilled nursing facilities and rehabilitation hospitals.
Revised for 1st substitute: Establishing a pilot program that creates a pathway to physician licensure for international medical graduates.
Establishing the family medicine residency training grant program.
Concerning hospital inspections.
Concerning temporary exemptions from licensure for certain applicants for a license to practice music therapy.
Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations.
Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.
Concerning the dietitian licensure compact.
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning the regulation of nursing. (CORRECTED COPY)
Making payments for services provided by a rural emergency hospital subject to appropriation.
Improving the functioning of home care rate statutes.
Concerning the supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists.
Concerning emergency medical technician recertification.
Concerning the use of nursing titles.
Preserving access to preventive services by clarifying state authority and definitions.
Concerning the health technology assessment program.
Concerning Medicare.
Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
Applying substance use disorder monitoring program provisions to nursing assistants.
Creating a nondisciplinary pathway for relinquishing licenses issued by the Washington medical commission.
Concerning the health plan certification process.
Making a technical correction to the surcharges authorized for certified anesthesiologist assistants.
Using preceptorships to train primary care physicians.
Revised for 1st substitute: Modernizing overpayment recovery requirements.
Preserving access to preventive services by clarifying state authority and definitions.
Expanding the qualifications of those who may serve as a local health officer in rural counties.
Facilitating the rapid sharing of overdose mapping information for overdose prevention.
Concerning the corporate practice of medicine.
Revised for engrossed: Concerning biosimilar medicines and interchangeable biological products.
Concerning the use of nursing titles.
Establishing the Washington health care board.
Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals.
Expanding prescriptive authority for pharmacists.
Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers.
Concerning department of health information on dementia.
Concerning nonopioid drugs for the treatment of pain.
Concerning endometriosis.
Aligning the quality assurance fee for the ambulance transport fund with federal regulations.
Amending the Constitution to establish a right to affordable health care.
Establishing a joint legislative executive committee on health care financing.
Concerning facilities licensed to provide pediatric transitional care services.
Concerning patient advocates.
Concerning psilocybin.
Strengthening public hospitals.
Requiring a multiprovider system be used for dental procedures where a patient is placed under deep sedation.
Requiring coverage for seizure detection devices as durable medical equipment under certain circumstances.
Concerning the truth in mental health coverage act.
Concerning comprehensive cancer education programs.
Concerning veterinarian-client-patient relationships.
Concerning nursing education program standards.
Creating the Washington state board of licensed mental health counselors.
Providing coverage for standard fertility preservation services for medicaid enrollees.
Limiting state medicaid coverage for transition-related surgical and nonsurgical interventions to only adults.
Ensuring transparency in credentials and communications between patients and health care professionals.
Concerning nursing delegation.
Expanding oral health equity and increasing access to preventive dental care.
Concerning the medicaid deprivatization act.
Concerning residency requirements for charity care.
Concerning alternative routes to social worker licensure.
Creating the Washington state board of governors for licensed social workers.
Establishing deadlines for the universal health care commission.
Expanding the income eligibility for the medical assistance program.
Partnering with a mobile pregnancy application to improve maternal and infant health.
Establishing a medical loss ratio of at least 90 percent for health plans.
Permitting the medical use of cannabis by qualifying patients in specified health care facilities.
Concerning general supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists by licensed physicians.
Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
Concerning cost sharing for maternity services.
Concerning advanced practice registered nurse and physician assistant reimbursement.
Amending the Constitution to address reproductive freedom and gender-affirming care.
Restoring trust in public health by conforming to food and drug administration labeling.
Concerning psychiatric pharmacists.
Concerning health carrier transparency of payment timeliness of claims submitted by health care providers and health care facilities.
Ensuring timely, efficient, and evidence-based additions to newborn screenings.
Authorizing certain health professions to act as physician substitutes for plasma source donation centers.
Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
Improving performance on maternal health and preventative cancer screening metrics for medicaid clients.
Providing sufficient funding for the Washington state long-term care ombuds program.
Improving cardiac and stroke outcomes.
Concerning water recreation facilities.
Concerning the relationships between health carriers and contracting providers.
Providing access to behavioral health services to children using licensed clinicians colocated within the school.
Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Creating a health care entity registry.
Expanding pharmacists' scope of practice to improve access to health care and the management of chronic diseases.
Providing coverage for massage therapy under medical assistance plans.
Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs.
Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Exempting certain dialysis services from certificate of need requirements.
Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee.
Allowing board-certified psychiatric pharmacists to be licensed as agency-affiliated counselors.
Creating the medicaid access program.
Accessing an emergency supply of insulin.
Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines.
Concerning the diabetes prevention and obesity treatment act.
Establishing the rural nursing education program.
Establishing the essential worker health care program.
Revised for 1st substitute: Concerning virtual direct supervision of diagnostic radiologic technologists, therapeutic radiologic technologists, and magnetic resonance imaging technologists by licensed physicians.
Concerning the availability of community violence prevention and intervention services.
Strengthening patients' rights regarding their health care information.
Implementing state auditor recommendations for reducing improper medicaid concurrent enrollment payments.
Developing the Washington health trust.
Establishing an interactive screening program to improve access to behavioral health resources for health care providers.
Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners.
Creating an advisory council on rare diseases.
Concerning cost sharing for prenatal and postnatal care.
Establishing a prescribing psychologist certification in Washington state.
Concerning access to psychedelic substances.
Concerning ibogaine-assisted therapy.
Prohibiting the sale of certain tobacco and nicotine products.
Revised for 1st substitute: Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
Protecting public health and safety by regulating the transfer of sodium nitrite.
Establishing funding for physician residency positions dedicated to international medical graduates.
Concerning health plan coverage of fertility-related services.
Updating the governor's interagency coordinating council on health disparities.
Delaying the home care aide certification requirements.
Prohibiting health carriers, facilities, and providers from making any public statements of any potential or planned contract terminations unless it satisfies a legal obligation.
Updating and modernizing the Washington state health plan.
Ensuring access to primary care, behavioral health, and affordable hospital services.
Concerning certified peer support specialists.
Enhancing crisis response services through co-response integration and support.
Modernizing the all payers claim database.
Concerning benefits authorized to be offered by the public employees' benefits board.
Delaying the use of the ASAM 4 criteria, treatment criteria for addictive, substance related, and co-occurring conditions.
Improving access to appropriate mental health and substance use disorder services.
Concerning the reprocurement of medical assistance services, including the realignment of behavioral health crisis services for medicaid enrollees.
Streamlining the home care worker background check process.
Expanding the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.
Adopting the department of social and health services report recommendations addressing a regulatory oversight plan for continuing care retirement communities.
Adjusting the membership of the pharmacy quality assurance commission.
Ensuring patient choice and access to care by prohibiting unfair and deceptive dental insurance practices.
Concerning the administration of the Andy Hill cancer research endowment.
Creating a certification for memory care services.
Codifying emergency rules to protect the right of a pregnant person to access treatment for emergency medical conditions in hospital emergency departments.
Increasing access to prescription hormone therapy.
Creating a health care entity registry.
Exempting elective percutaneous coronary intervention performed in certain hospitals owned or operated by a state entity from certificate of need requirements.
Concerning contraceptive coverage.
Concerning hospital price transparency.
Concerning the retention of hospital medical records.
Concerning veterans' medical foster homes.
Concerning coverage requirements for prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces.
Concerning well-being programs for certain health care professionals.
Preserving the ability of public officials to address communicable diseases.
Addressing the disclosure of health information for care coordination.
Concerning Universal Health Care.
Placing licenses issued in chapters 18.71B and 18.71C RCW under the authority of the uniform disciplinary act.
Concerning inspections for accredited birthing centers.
Concerning the respiratory care interstate compact.
Authorizing access to certifications of birth and death to additional family members.
Aligning the implementation of application programming interfaces for prior authorization with federal guidelines.
Expanding the types of medication assistance that may be provided to residents of community-based care settings.
Concerning the mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and social workers advisory committee.
Standardizing basic training and certification requirements for long-term care workers who provide in-home care for their family members, including spouses or domestic partners.
Allowing additional health professions to access the University of Washington health sciences library.
Concerning medicaid coverage for HIV antiviral drugs.
Providing an exemption for women, infants, and children program staff to perform hematological screening tests.
Consolidating regulatory authority for nursing assistants.
Concerning health carrier reporting.
Updating the requirements for the clinical experience license for international medical graduates.
Establishing a diabetes action team public-private partnership.
Concerning preventative care and screenings for children in medicaid managed care contracts.
Expanding insurance coverage of neurodevelopmental therapies.
Regarding hospital financing and tax preference eligibility.
Concerning medicaid cost containment.
Requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration reclassify medical marijuana as a Schedule II drug.
Concerning the expiration of provisions related to managed health care systems' participation in the basic health plan.
Concerning fraud prevention and detection in the medicaid and the children's health insurance program.
Promoting state employee wellness and productivity.
Providing health care purchasing options for individuals and small employers.
Prohibiting pharmacists from substituting opioid analgesic drugs for an opioid analgesic drug incorporating a tamper resistance technology without verifying equivalence or obtaining the written, signed consent of the prescribing physician.
Requiring a direct patient-provider primary care practice services option for public employees.
Establishing a consolidating purchasing system for public school employees.
Repealing the requirement for a study and report concerning direct practices that the office of the insurance commissioner must provide to the legislature.
Authorizing physician assistants to perform opthalmic-related services under employment or supervision by a medical doctor or an osteopathic physician.
Requiring transparency for patients regarding training and qualifications of health care professionals.
Creating the Washington health care cost commission.
Creating a medication assistant endorsement for certified nursing assistants who work in nursing homes.
Requiring notice to patients for certain charges at a health care facility.
Concerning shared decision making.
Harmonizing state requirements regarding discrimination against health care providers with federal requirements.
Concerning nursing staffing practices at hospitals.
Establishing a medicaid fraud hotline.
Providing immunity for nonprofit and charitable corporations that provide used eyeglasses for charitable purposes.
Providing that health care professional licensees may not be required to participate in any public or private third-party reimbursement program.
Requiring certification of music therapists.
Authorizing the presentation of claims for payment for pathology services to direct patient-provider primary care practices.
Limiting prescription drug cost-sharing obligations and out-of-pocket expenses.
Addressing the medical use of cannabis.
Authorizing electronic communication of prescription information for controlled substances.
Concerning the administration of medical expense plans for state government retirees.
Implementing the affordable care act.
Concerning health plan coverage for the voluntary termination of a pregnancy.
Including pharmacists in the legend drug act.
Concerning dental practitioners.
Regulating the practices of pharmacy benefits managers.
Granting authority to the secretary of health to conduct inspections of massage business establishments.
Concerning the health care workforce.
Concerning prescription review for medicaid managed care enrollees.
Eliminating the certificate of need review for all health care facilities except hospitals.
Permitting nursing homes to recycle unused prescription medicines.
Concerning the donation and redistribution of unused prescription drugs.
Requiring the department of health to establish a cancer drug repository program.
Concerning the delegation of nursing care tasks to home care aides.
Restoring funding to in-home care services.
Requiring the department of social and health services to study alternatives to the operation of residential habilitation centers.
Requiring the department of social and health services to study the feasibility of privatizing the operation of residential habilitation centers.
Requiring insurance benefits with wellness incentives for public employees.
Concerning accountability for tax exempt hospitals.
Requiring certain long-term care facilities to report incidents of death caused by health care-associated infections to the department of social and health services.
Providing greater transparency to the health professions disciplinary process.
Expanding insurance coverage of neurodevelopmental therapies.
Concerning the establishment of board of health rules on fluoridation levels where fluoridation is practiced by public drinking water systems.
Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Authorizing program providers to issue food and beverage service worker's permits.
Concerning applied behavior analyst services.
Modifying hospital and emergency service personnel reporting requirements to local enforcement.
Prohibiting smoking in vehicles containing children.
Concerning Washington state food purchasing policy.
Concerning accountability for tax exempt hospitals.
Concerning the disposal of residential sharps waste.
Concerning the health technology assessment program.
Clarifying which surgical facilities the Washington state department of health is mandated to license pursuant to chapter 70.230 RCW.
Concerning health care financing.
Concerning the health care facilities authority.
Providing requirements for freestanding emergency rooms.
Regarding institutions of higher education prohibiting hospitals or physicians from entering into agreements to provide clinical rotations or residencies to certain medical students.
Concerning physical therapists.
Exempting public hospital districts from certificate of need requirements.
Facilitating integration of behavioral health care and primary care.
Reauthorizing the joint legislative select committee on health reform implementation.
Concerning medicaid fraud.
Changing the designation of the medicaid single state agency.
Concerning the administration of drugs by health care assistants.
Creating the safety net assessment to fund services for people with developmental disabilities.
Concerning the discharge and relocation of residents of state facilities.
Authorizing Washington pharmacies to fill prescriptions written by advanced registered nurse practitioners in other states.
Concerning the insurance commissioner's authority to review and disapprove rates for certain insurance products.
Concerning the employment of physicians by nursing homes.
Requiring cause of death to be recorded as assisted suicide for purposes of the death with dignity act.
Concerning the adverse health events and incident reporting system.
Regulating insurance rates.
Limiting public funding for abortions.
Concerning health care services.
Addressing public employee benefits law.
Concerning the criteria for the review of certificate of need applications.
Determining health insurance rates by comparing premiums and benefits.
Providing patients with information on options for breast reconstruction.
Concerning limited service pregnancy centers.
Creating a statewide program for the collection, transportation, and disposal of unwanted medicines.
Creating an exemption from preferred drug substitution for atypical antipsychotic drugs.
Concerning the delegation of nursing care tasks to home care aides.
Regarding statutory changes needed to implement a waiver to receive federal assistance for certain state purchased public health care programs.
Concerning residential habilitation centers.
Concerning oversight of licensed or certified long-term care settings for vulnerable adults.
Regarding insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders.
Prohibiting requests for waivers of rights of residents of long-term care facilities.
Concerning insurance coverage of tobacco cessation treatment in the preventative benefit required under the federal law.
Creating the Washington state board of naturopathy.
Concerning medicaid fraud.
Removing financial barriers to persons seeking vulnerable adult protection orders.
Creating a career pathway for medical assistants.
Requiring registration of reflexologists.
Exempting veterinarians from the data submission requirements of the prescription monitoring program.
Establishing the office of the health care authority ombudsman.
Assisting persons seeking individual health benefit plan coverage when their prior carrier has terminated individual coverage.
Ensuring that persons with developmental disabilities be given the opportunity to transition to a community access program after enrollment in an employment program.
Requiring the certification of dental anesthesia assistants.
Requiring the certification of dental anesthesia assistants.
Regarding transition services for people with developmental disabilities.
Requiring the department of social and health services to submit a demonstration waiver request to revise the federal medicaid program.
Creating flexibility in the delivery of long-term care services.
Establishing a health benefit exchange.
Concerning primary care health homes and chronic care management.
Addressing the needs for health insurance coverage for persons under age nineteen.
Regulating health care insurance.
Concerning exemption from immunization.
Concerning the medical use of cannabis.
Concerning submission of certain information by physicians and physician assistants at the time of license renewal.
Concerning the protection of vulnerable adults.
Creating an organ donation work group.
Including wound care management in occupational therapy.
Concerning evaluating military training and experience toward meeting licensing requirements in medical professions.
Requiring the department of health to collect current and past employment information in the cancer registry program.
Regarding naturopathic physicians.
Concerning health sciences and services authorities.
Concerning the acquisition of nonprofit hospitals.
Forming a joint select committee on health reform implementation.
Applying the prohibition against unfair practices by insurers and their remedies and penalties to the state health care authority.
Defining small groups for insurance purposes.
Concerning East Asian medicine practitioners.
Concerning medical marijuana.
Establishing the accountable care organization pilot projects.
Concerning health care.
Concerning nursing assistant credentialing.
Concerning the use of bisphenol A.
Repealing the expiration of the fair payment for chiropractic services requirement.
Authorizing Washington pharmacies to fill prescriptions written by advanced registered nurse practitioners in other states or in certain provinces of Canada.
Restricting contract requirements that certain providers maintain hospital privileges.
Concerning naturopathy.
Authorizing health carriers to offer plans equivalent to the basic health plan.
Authorizing health carriers to offer plans equivalent to the basic health plan.
Concerning electronic timekeeping for home care agencies.
Establishing the interstate health insurance compact act.
Concerning community living for persons with developmental disabilities.
Including wound care management in occupational therapy.
Modifying state payments for in-home care.
Requiring insurance benefits with wellness incentives for public employees.
Establishing the medicaid nursing facility quality assurance trust fund.
Concerning respiratory care practitioners.
Concerning administration of the medicaid program.
Concerning the size of a small employer's group for purposes of health benefit plans.
Concerning emergency departments that are not physically connected to a hospital.
Concerning license renewals.
Regarding group medical insurance for nontraditional groups.
Concerning persons with developmental disabilities.
Concerning premiums for individual health coverage.
Urging removal of the cornhusker kickback from federal health care legislation.
Petitioning the Department of Health to review cardiovascular disease prevention measures.
Concerning exemption from immunization.
Concerning direct practices.
Adopting the Washington state health care freedom act of 2010 concerning health care services.
Requiring hospitals to adopt policies concerning vaccination of health care workers.
Concerning the apple health community care demonstration waiver.
Concerning payment for emergency services.
Exempting ambulances and aid vehicles from the requirement to post notices about estimates for health care fees and charges.
Concerning limited service pregnancy centers.
Concerning health care services.
Concerning fees for dental services that are not covered by insurance or contract.
Concerning residential habilitation services.
Concerning emergency services provided by nonparticipating providers in hospitals.
Concerning billing for anatomic pathology services.
Establishing the prescriber education program.
Concerning hospitals reporting violent injuries.
Concerning hospital surveys or audits.
Addressing conversion rights upon termination of eligibility for health plan coverage.
Licensing dentists.
Regarding certification of speech-language pathology assistants.
Simplifying medicaid payment for nursing facilities.
Conforming the uniform controlled substances act to existing state and federal law.
Reporting adverse health events.
Establishing the Washington vaccine association.
Concerning emergency health care services.
Concerning the health technology assessment program.
Concerning health care financing.
Concerning health care financing.
Creating public health districts.
Establishing a pilot program to provide access to personal hygiene and cleaning products.
Requiring health benefit plans to offer coverage for surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
Concerning the basic health plan.
Creating a statewide immunization registry.
Requiring a toll-free phone number to report contaminated or suspicious food products.
Concerning the health technology clinical committee's review process.
Concerning health carrier payment of wellness incentives.
Concerning diagnostic imaging services.
Reforming the health care system in Washington state.
Concerning adult family homes.
Creating a health care council.
Prohibiting certain food establishments from serving food containing trans fat.
Concerning health care assistants.
Limiting access to birth certificates.
Concerning the license surcharge for the impaired physician program.
Increasing immunization.
Delaying the implementation of the health insurance partnership.
Requiring tamper-resistant prescription pads.
Establishing the office of the health care authority ombudsman.
Requiring health benefit plan coverage for elemental formula.
Concerning the eligibility of foreign medical school graduates for licensing as physician assistants.
Regulating body piercing.
Regarding the issuance of licenses to practice dentistry.
Concerning alternative health care practitioners.
Concerning the shortage of health care professionals.
Enhancing federal financing of health coverage.
Concerning child immunization exemptions.
Concerning intermediate care facilities.
Regarding hours of labor for health care employees.
Requiring school districts or educational service districts to purchase employee health insurance coverage through the state health care authority.
Requiring financial parity for oral and intravenous or injected chemotherapy treatment costs.
Creating the acupuncture quality assurance commission.
Modifying and adding definitions related to school district employee benefits.
Concerning telemedicine.
Concerning methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
Concerning developmental screening.
Regarding dental hygiene.
Concerning vaccines.
Concerning the standard health questionnaire.
Allowing electronic approval of vital records.
Creating a school-based influenza vaccination pilot program.
Concerning early intervention services for children with disabilities.
Modifying the name of and titles within the acupuncture profession.
Concerning hospital charity care.
Regarding the use of bisphenol A.
Providing for the safe collection and disposal of unwanted drugs from residential sources through a producer provided and funded product stewardship program.
Concerning physical therapists.
Changing the implementation date and benefit design of nonsubsidized state health coverage for children.
Prohibiting requests for waivers of rights of residents of long-term care facilities.
Reducing organ transplant benefit waiting periods based upon prior creditable coverage.
Permitting electronic signatures on applications for public assistance and for benefits administered by the health care authority.
Regarding insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders.
Concerning billing for medical services provided through special education programs.
Requiring language access services for persons with limited English proficiency in health care and insurance matters.
Concerning service animals in training.
Concerning vendor rates for supported living providers.
Authorizing the purchase, storage, and administration of medications by occupational therapists.
Concerning health insurance for young adults.
Concerning insurance coverage of the sales tax for prescribed durable medical equipment and mobility enhancing equipment.
Concerning the practice of opticianry.
Concerning online access to the University of Washington health sciences library by certain health care providers.
Concerning prescription drug use in state purchased health care programs.
Concerning the Washington state insurance pool.
Concerning direct patient-provider primary care practice arrangements.
Creating the Washington health partnership plan.
Concerning long-term care facilities.
Abolishing the Washington state quality forum.
Concerning health benefit plan coverage for organ transplants.
Regulating tattooing and body piercing.
Requiring health care professionals to report violent injuries.
Establishing a forum for testing primary care medical home reimbursement pilot projects.
Distributing health plan information.
Concerning certificates of need.
Concerning genetic counselors.
Concerning pregnancy prevention programs.
Regulating speech-language pathology assistants.
Concerning respite care.
Concerning the secure exchange of health information.
Concerning administrative procedures for payors and providers of health care services.
Establishing a community health care collaborative grant program.
Establishing intensive behavior support services.
Regarding cost recovery in disciplinary proceedings involving dentists.
Creating the Washington health care discount plan organization act.
Calling on Congress to enact legislation to eliminate the 24 month Medicare waiting period for participants in Social Security Disability Insurance.
Concerning employee wellness programs.
Requesting that Congress issue a date at which health information technology must comply with a uniform national standard of interoperability.
Regarding counseling professions subject to the authority of the secretary of health.
Regarding critical access hospitals not subject to certificate of need review.