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"As a member, you can help support the WSMA's efforts at the Legislative Summit each year." - Glen Carlson, MD, Harrison Medical Center

Legislative Summit

WSMA’s annual Legislative Summit will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 at the state Capitol building in Olympia.

The Summit gives Washington's physicians, physician assistants, residents, and medical students an opportunity to amplify our advocacy message with state legislators. The event is free for WSMA members. Non-member physicians and physician assistants will need to join the WSMA in order to attend. There will be a $30 registration fee for nonmembers who are not physicians or physician assistants.

About the Legislative Summit

The event will include updates from health care policy leaders, information on WSMA’s legislative agenda, and optional meetings with your local legislators.

We know your time is valuable: We’ll provide breakfast and lunch, legislative updates, and we’ll work to schedule optional personal meetings with your state legislative delegation.

The 2025 legislative session will feature a new governor, attorney general, insurance commissioner, and numerous new state legislators, including a new House Health Care Committee chair. They’ll all be working through many bills important to the house of medicine and writing a two-year state budget.

There’s a lot at stake and we appreciate your interest in joining us in Olympia to help advocate for WSMA’s 2025 legislative priorities, including:

  • Securing across-the-board Medicaid rate increases.
  • Defending against inappropriate scope of practice expansions.
  • Supporting health care workforce by increasing education and training investments and promoting retention of existing workforce.

Event Overview

  • WSMA legislative agenda overview
  • Keynote speakers
  • WSMA priority policy and fiscal issues presentation
  • Advocacy 101
  • Group photos – Bring your white coat!
  • Optional meetings with your legislative delegation

Disclaimer

The WSMA may have a photographer or videographer on-site at this event to gather imagery for use by the WSMA in its communications materials and channels, as well as for media outreach. These images will be the property of the WSMA, and the WSMA will not sell or otherwise market event imagery. If you have any questions regarding imagery taken at a WSMA event, please contact Milana McLead at milana@wsma.org.

Corporate Partners

The WSMA wishes to thank the following corporate partners for their generous contribution. Learn more about becoming a partner.

Exclusive Premier Partner

Founded in 1981 under the auspices of the WSMA, Physicians Insurance is the Northwest's leading medical professional liability insurance company, physician-owned and exclusively endorsed to this day by the WSMA. For over 30 years, Physicians Insurance has remained the stable, committed and local insurer for physicians, clinics, facilities and hospitals, providing risk-management consulting, continuing medical education and claims administration services to more than 7,000 members in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming.


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