The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday issued the attached proposed rule that creates a new model in which acute care hospitals in certain selected geographic areas, including three in California, will receive retrospective bundled payments for episodes of care for hip and knee replacements beginning Jan. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2020. The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CCJR) model would hold participant hospitals financially accountable for the quality and cost of a 90-day episode of care and is intended to incentivize increased coordination of care among hospitals, physicians and post-acute care providers.
Participation in the model would be required by hospitals paid under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) in 75 geographic areas defined by metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). CMS has proposed participation for three California MSAs, including Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (Orange County and Los Angeles County), Modesto (Stanislaus County), and San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward (Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco County, San Mateo County and Marin County).
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As part of its Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community, the Hospital Quality Institute will host a webinar on Aug. 19 from noon to 1 p.m. (PT) to discuss the impact of child welfare involvement on both parent and infant mental health, the role that hospital staff plays in the process of child abuse reporting during the perinatal period, and steps to file a child abuse report as a...
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Tonight, the state Senate and Assembly are expected to vote on a bill that creates a path toward increases for a health care-specific minimum wage in California. If the votes carry, the governor will have 30 days to take action.
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With tens of thousands of gun deaths per year nationwide, it often feels like it’s just a matter of time before the wheel of tragedy stops close to home.
CHA thanks members for responding to the targeted alert calling for hospitals to contact their congressional representatives ahead of the four House subcommittee hearings on transparency, disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments, outpatient payments, 340B, physician-owned hospitals, tax-exempt status, and many other hospital issues.
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This week, California’s congressional representatives returned from their home districts to a gray and gloomy Washington, D.C.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2022 inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule updating payment policies and rates. The final rule is effective Oct. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its proposed rule updating payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) for fiscal year (FY) 2023. Comments on the proposed rule are due by 2 p.m. (PT) on May 31.
