Resources
The WSMA provides resources on a host of topics—from legal to leadership,
from clinical quality to practice support and more—so that you can spend
more of your time delivering quality care.
In the Resources section you will find:
Find a Doctor
Find a physician or physician assistant near you by searching our database
of more than 11,000 members.
Find a Doctor
Practice Management
Tailored guidance and resources to help you practice medicine.
Practice Management
Prior Authorization
Reducing the negative impact of insurance carrier prior authorization
processes continues to be a top priority of the WSMA.
Prior Authorization
Balance Billing
An overview of legislation protecting patients from unexpected bills while
preserving physicians' ability to negotiate fair reimbursement from
Washington's health insurers.
Balance Billing
Private Practice
Education and resources to help support independent physicians in private
practice.
Private Practice
Physician Unionization
Understanding the risks and benefits of collective bargaining for physicians and physicians-in-training.
Physician Unionization
Contracting
Designed to help you review and understand the terms of contractual
agreements you are considering entering into, whether it be for employment
or with a payer or network sponsor.
Contracting
Health Law Guide
An easy-to-use online guide of the many laws commonly encountered in a
medical practice.
Health Law Guide
Peer Review and Medical Staff
Helping you build an understanding of important concepts such as peer
review, just culture, and the role of the medical staff.
Peer Review and Medical Staff
Advance Care Planning
Resources and tools to help patients and physicians have and document
conversations about wishes regarding future medical care.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Directives
Helping ensure your wishes for future medical care are known, valued, and
honored.
Advance Directives
POLST
POLST, or Portable Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, helps give
seriously ill patients more control over their care.
POLST
Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Resources
Inspiring conversations about the care people want.
Advance Care Planning and Serious Illness Resources
ACP and Serious Illness On-Demand Webinars
Catch up on our advance care planning and serious illness webinars to
date.
ACP and Serious Illness On-Demand Webinars
Washington Serious Illness Care Coalition
A broad-based group of individuals and organizations dedicated to helping
patients, clinicians, and caregivers improve the way we prepare for and
treat serious illness.
Washington Serious Illness Care Coalition
Better Prescribing, Better Treatment
Physicians are leading efforts in Washington state to promote safe,
appropriate prescribing.
Better Prescribing, Better Treatment
Program Overview
A physician-led, peer-to-peer, non-punitive initiative aimed at
encouraging safe opioid prescribing. Now expanded to include
benzodiazepines and sedatives.
Program Overview
Better Prescribing, Better Treatment Podcast
WSMA’s new podcast to support safe prescribing of opioids and controlled
substances.
Better Prescribing, Better Treatment Podcast
Opioid Prescribing Rules and Guidelines
Information on new state opioid prescribing requirements and state and
federal opioid prescribing guidelines.
Opioid Prescribing Rules and Guidelines
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Get started prescribing buprenorphine with these resources.
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Medical Professionals Living with Disabilities
Assisting medical students, physicians, physician assistants and others
living with disabilities in Washington state.
Medical Professionals Living with Disabilities
Medical School Disability Resources
Assisting medical students in Washington.
Medical School Disability Resources
Additional Disability Resources
Working to meet the needs of Washingtonians.
Additional Disability Resources
Career Center
Employment opportunities for clinicians and administrators; services
available; practices for sale or lease; and more.
Career Center