REPRESENTING YOU

Keeping your voice front and center in the media and with influencers.

• 35 news stories published spotlighting the WSMA and the physician voice.
• 2 press releases, 1 press statement, 11 news stories and 2 op-eds published covering WSMA's efforts to solve the opioid crisis.
• 4 op-eds from WSMA CEO Jennifer Hanscom published, covering physicians as economic drivers; rising drug costs; physician leadership; Medicaid reimbursement and practice viability.
• 3 news stories, 1 press statement and 1 press event covering WSMA efforts to address gun violence.
• 4 news stories and 1 press release highlighting WSMA's advance care planning efforts.

PREPARING YOU

Guiding your success with value-based payment models.

• More than 40 in-person presentations by WSMA leadership and staff.
• Partnered with stakeholders to provide guidance on state and federal payment initiatives.
• Provided four webinar based presentations on value-based care.

SUPPORTING YOU

Providing service and value.

• More than 200 hours of guidance on coding and general inquiries via the Physician Practice Helpline ($12,000 value).
• 20 charts analyzed to ensure coding accuracy ($1,000 value).
• 600+ hours of legal support ($225,000 value).
• 135 members completed WSMA's 40-hour Physician Leadership Course ($378,000 value).

• 89% success rate for WSMA's legislative advocacy.
• 400 bills and budget items tracked during state legislative session.
• 100+ members attended the WSMA Legislative Summit.
• 97% of candidates supported in the last election cycle by WAMPAC (WSMA's nonpartisan campaign arm) won their campaigns.
• 17 rulemaking proposals prepared and formal comments submitted.
• 1 amicus ("friend of the court") brief filed (Reyes v. Yakima Health Dist et al), in which we advocated successfully for preserving expert witness standards in medical malpractice cases.
• 20 requests for assistance with insurance claims processed, returning over $80,000 to those practices.

WSMA Advocacy Successfully:

• Ensured that going forward, all counties in the state will have at least one commercial health insurance option available to consumers on the individual market.
• Established a statewide drug take-back program to help reduce diversion of opioids and other drugs.
• Ensured board certification cannot be considered a condition for state licensure or licensure renewal.
• Ensured access to contraception and reproductive services.
• Tracked more than 250 rules — a 22 percent increase since 2017.
• Protected the physician community’s interests during the state’s implementation of the Clinical Data Repository.

WSMA Advocacy Prevented:

• A prohibition of balance billing.
• Legislation limiting opioid pill counts (placing a standard of care into state statute).
• A check of the PMP on every opioid prescription.
• Required prior authorization on all narcotic prescriptions in new Medicaid opioid prescribing policy.
• A scope of practice expansion for naturopaths.

WSMA Advocacy Secured:

• Nearly $14 million to increase Medicaid's primary care provider reimbursement rates for pediatric care and vaccine services, helping to improve access to care for Washington's most vulnerable population.
• $6 million to increase Medicaid's reimbursement rate for medication-assisted treatment, to encourage more physicians and other providers to provide this critical service to patients suffering from opioid use disorder.
• $160,000 for staffing to help coordinate the integration of the state's prescription monitoring program into electronic health records.
• $1.2 million to support the UW TelePain program's provider clinical phone consults, a resource for community clinicians who treat patients with chronic pain (WSMA and WSHA Joint Opioid Safe Practices Task Force recommendation).
• $4.7 million for student loan repayment for health professionals.
• $8 million continued funding for medical education/residencies.

WSMA-WSHA JOINT OPIOID SAFE PRACTICES TASK FORCE

Providing clinician-driven solutions to help end the opioid epidemic.

• Submitted 10 comment letters detailing specific physician concerns on state opioid prescribing rules.
• Reduced non-compliant acute prescriptions to Apple Health patients by 65 percent through our Washington Opioid Reports.
• Pilot tested an overdose notification system on the Olympic Peninsula with plans to go statewide in 2019.

HEALTHY DOCTORS, HEALTHIER PATIENTS

Reducing administrative red tape and increasing physician satisfaction.

• Launched WSMA Prior Authorization Navigator to help you understand new rules that went into effect Jan. 1, 2018.
• Prohibited the state from requiring board certification as a condition of licensure.

CHOOSING WISELY®

Encouraging conversations with patients and clinicians about appropriate care.

• Launched "Drop the Pre-op" campaign to promote the message that all patients need pre-op evaluation, but a low-risk patient having a low-risk procedure does not need pre-op testing.

HONORING CHOICES® PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Leading the region on advance care planning conversations.

• 51 teams from 30 health care and community organizations conducted more than 3,400 ACP conversations to date, with health care agents present at 61% of those conversations (gold standard). 40% of participants returned a completed advance directive, a 66% increase over the state baseline of 24%.
• $5.5+ million raised of an $8 million fundraising goal.