On July 1, MultiCare implemented fees for MyChart messages, joining a growing number of health systems aiming to manage the increasing volume of patient communications. According to the Tacoma, ...

Use of MyChart messaging portal will come with a fee for some messages in the MultiCare network. Getty Images A Tacoma-based health care network is now charging patients for certain types of online ...

A rendering shows the planned MultiCare Children’s Hospital, which is currently under construction. A power vault at the construction site was tied to a recent network outage for the health care ...

MultiCare tells KIRO 7 that all of its telephone systems are now operational and MyChart is back online for patients. MultiCare anticipates it will have all of its online systems back online by Monday ...

As early as 2022, healthcare systems in the United States started charging for certain MyChart messages. Legal nurse consultant Cambria Nwosu warns that this phenomenon may be on the rise. “MyChart is ...

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, MultiCare and Kaiser Permanente said that they do not have any plans to charge patients for MyChart messages with physicians, The News Tribune reported Dec. 5.