What’s Happening: CHA has submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging changes to the proposed rule on “Amending the Indirect Hold Harmless Threshold of Health Care-Related Taxes.”
What’s happening: On Sept. 22, the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) submitted an emergency rulemaking package to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) to amend its Cost and Market Impact Review regulations. In its comment letter, CHA asked OHCA to revise its regulations to better align them with the letter and intent of Assembly Bill 1415,...
What’s happening: CHA has submitted comments to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) in response to the Aug. 17 third draft of regulatory language regarding Assembly Bill 1007 (2023-24: Occupational safety and health standards: plume).
What’s happening: CHA is reminding hospitals that the Emergency Medical Services Authority’s Chapter 6 Specialty Care regulations, which cover trauma, stroke, STEMI, and pediatric emergency services, take effect on Oct. 1.
What’s happening: On Sept. 22, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) hosted an ad hoc stakeholder advisory committee focusing on the transition of approximately 2 million Medi-Cal members with unsatisfactory immigration status to Medi-Cal fee-for-service.
What’s happening: The California Quality Collaborative will host an Improvement Coaching Workshop on Oct. 15 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sierra Health Foundation in Sacramento. The interactive session will give hospital teams practical tools to turn quality improvement priorities into action within their own organization.
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is hosting hospitals and Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) for a Value-Based Payment (VBP) Contracting Conference on Oct. 15 in Sacramento.
While CHA continues to press in Washington, D.C., for approval of the final component — fee-for-service payment mechanisms — of Hospital Fee Program 9, we are also pushing the state for timely completion of submission for the next iteration, Program 10.
What’s happening: CHA DataSuite, in partnership with DataGen, has issued a hospital-specific summary analysis of the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded (CJR-X) model.
What’s happening: At its Sept. 23 meeting, the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) board reviewed a proposal to combine hospitals' inpatient and outpatient spending growth into a single measure for each payer. The board also, for the first time, publicly examined the volatility in the hospital-reported revenue data OHCA uses to measure hospital performance against...
