Efforts to give California’s health care workers a greater say in how their hard-earned dues dollars are spent are fully underway, with the filing last month of a statewide ballot initiative for the November 2026 election.
As the clock struck midnight Wednesday, funding for the federal government expired, triggering a shutdown of many services and agencies while those deemed “mandatory” continue to operate.
As both analysts and hospital leaders continue to deepen their understanding of the impact of recently enacted federal legislation that will chop nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade, a new study shows that Medicaid work requirements alone could see hospitals’ operating margins drop by double digits.
As federal lawmakers scramble to pass a funding measure that would avert a government shutdown when the current spending plan expires Sept. 30, several key issues affecting hospitals are in play.
California’s 2025 legislative session ends tomorrow, and while much of the recent focus has been at the federal level — working to fend off record health care cuts enacted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — at the state level, the past nine months have been dominated by a series of important bills with a California footprint.
Time is running short for California hospitals to submit their inaugural Hospital Equity Measures Report, as legislation passed in 2021 mandates that the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) receive the reports by Sept. 30.
As the state’s hospital and health system leaders just begin to grapple with the massive health care cuts enacted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — as much as $128 billion drained from California over the next decade — another threat from Washington, D.C., has emerged.
In remarks that are as baffling as they are dangerous, many Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) board members are doubling down on an arbitrary, accelerated, and punitive process to drain hospitals of resources needed for patient care.
“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply.”
— Stephen Covey
Late last week, California’s largest health care union filed paperwork with the Office of the Attorney General to add a ballot measure to next year’s election that would cap compensation packages for hospital and medical group leaders at $450,000.
