What’s happening: Assembly Bill (AB) 1392 (2023) expands the Hospital Supplier Diversity program by requiring additional reporting information for hospitals, effective July 1, 2025.
What else to know: A fact sheet from the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) outlines the statutory changes and time frames for program implementation.
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) has finalized new regulations, effective Jan. 1, 2024, about hospital charity and discount care policies and practices.
What else to know: Based on CHA’s advocacy, HCAI amended the proposed regulations, providing hospitals more time to respond to patient complaints and reducing penalties.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would establish new staffing standards for long-term care facilities, including skilled-nursing facilities. Comments on the proposed rule are due Nov. 6.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) of 2023 includes a new Stark Law exception and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) safe harbor that allows hospitals and other health care entities with formal medical staffs to offer physicians a “bona fide mental health or behavioral health improvement or maintenance program.” (See CAA, §4126.)