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
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
Prior Authorization
New state rules to streamline the process for medical services and
prescription drugs are in effect. Find out what you need to know.
Prior Authorization
Physician Credentialing
Starting June 2018, new state rules go into effect that will standardize
and streamline physician credentialing. Make sure you make the most of
these requirements.
Physician Credentialing
Legal
Turn to the WSMA's online knowledge bank for legal resources. You help
your patients, and we'll help you understand the law.
Legal
Washington Physicians’ Guide to Health Law
An easy-to-use online guide of the many laws commonly encountered in a
medical practice.
Washington Physicians’ Guide to Health Law
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
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
Balance Billing
What you need to know to ensure your practice or organization is in full
compliance with new state rules.
Balance Billing
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