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DHCS Releases Private Hospital-Directed Payment Encounter Files

What’s happening: On Dec. 13, 2024, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) uploaded three new hospital-directed payment encounter files, available via the Secure File Transfer Protocol site, that hospitals must download as soon as possible — they will be deleted within 45 days of the upload date.   

What else to know: DHCS has also published new calendar year 2023 encounter detail file toolkits for each Directed Payments program.  

CHA Webinar Covers New Medicare Conditions of Participation Updates

What’s happening: CHA will host a members-only webinar on Jan. 29 from 11 a.m. to noon (PT) to discuss the new Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP) updates for obstetrical and other services. Registration is open. 

What else to know: The requirements will be phased in over two years, with the first of the requirements in effect July 1.  

DHCS Shifts Deadline for Hospital Fee Program Payments to April 8

What’s happening: As previously shared with member hospitals via email, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has shifted the timing of fees and payments for the Hospital Quality Assurance Fee (HQAF) program attributable to the managed care pass-through cycle for the Jan. 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024, period.  

What else to know: The fees associated with this cycle are now due April 8, 2025. 

Registration Open for Chief of Staff Boot Camp 2025

What’s happening: The Institute for Medical Leadership is hosting its Chief of Staff Boot Camp 2025 — geared toward medical staff leaders, chief medical offers, hospital executives, and medical staff managers — Feb. 28 to March 2 in Los Angeles. Tuition begins at $2,195, and registration is open. 

What else to know: The Chief of Staff Boot Camp aims to provide new chiefs of staff the information they need to succeed in their complex role by sharing the knowledge and tools necessary to work collaboratively with peers, hospital administration, and staff members. 

HCAI Releases White Paper on Seismic Instrumentation

What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information’s (HCAI) recent white paper covers how useful and beneficial it is for health care facilities to utilize seismic instrumentations, such as various sensors that measure accelerations and displacements.  

What else to know: The paper was developed by the Hospital Building Safety Board’s Instrumentation Committee and its information is valuable to hospital owners and managers, operators, design professionals, public officials, and the general public.  

CDPH Releases Updated Return to Work Guidance for Health Care Personnel with Respiratory Viral Infections

What’s happening: On Jan. 10, the California Department of Public Health released updated Interim Work Exclusion Guidance that details when health care personnel with COVID-19, influenza, and other acute respiratory viral infections may return to work. 

What else to know: The guidance, announced in an All Facilities Letter, applies regardless of whether diagnostic testing for viral pathogens is performed or the results of such testing is confirmed. This guidance does not apply to novel viral pathogens, including avian influenza, for which other public health guidance is available.  

CHA Web Page Shares Resources for Los Angeles Hospitals

What’s happening: CHA has established a web page with federal and state resources to help hospitals respond to the fires in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.  

What else to know: The web page provides the latest information on actions at the federal and state levels, which can support hospitals’ response to the fires.

Authors
  • Adam Dorsey
    Group Vice President, Financial Policy
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    Jesse Delis
    Vice President, Financial Policy