WSMA in the News

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2011

December 30
OUTLOOK 2012: Many embrace accountable care — but not Medicare’s - Puget Sound Business Journal

December 8
Doctors leave private practice in droves - Healthcare Finance News

December 1
Corporate competitions offer employees incentives to lose weight, gain cash - FoxNews.com

Govs. Gregoire and Chafee ask DEA to reclassify marijuana - The (Tacoma) News Tribune

November 10
Medicaid will resume paying for repeated emergency-room use - The (Tacoma) News Tribune

State lifts three-visit ER limit for poor patients - seattlepi.com

September 16
Health care for poor at risk with state budget woes - seattlepi.com

Leaders in training - MDNews.com

September 15
Glen R. Stream, MD, MBI, assumes role of president of the American Academy of Family Physicians - Healthcare IT News

August 27
New pain-management rules leave patients hurting - The Seattle Times

August 24
Sen. Murray must balance all needs on supercommittee - The Seattle Times op-ed

August 23
Groups press Murray for "listening session" on debt committee work - The Seattle Times

March 2
Immunizations save lives; they're a must - (op-ed by WSMA President Dean Martz, MD) - The Everett Herald

2010

December 18
A history of peer reviews - Yakima Herald-Republic

Birth right — Dr. Diana Smigaj's legal battle with Memorial - Yakima Herald-Republic

Peer-review panels have a solid legal shield - Yakima Herald-Republic

December 9
Doctors take fight over ER bills to state high court - The Seattle Times

July 21
Three doctors pursuing seats in the state Legislature - The Seattle Times

May 23
Coming soon to a Washington state clinic near you: ‘Accountable care’ - Puget Sound Business Journal

April 1
Washington 'a step ahead' of health law - The Seattle Times