Last week, the American Hospital Association released a report from Kaufman Hall, a nationally renowned consulting firm, showing that losses in the billions of dollars for hospitals and health systems are expected through 2022, resulting in the most financially difficult year for the field since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.
Next month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected to formally extend the federal public health emergency (PHE) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a move that HHS has made every 90 days since the emergency was declared in January 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a request for information (RFI) on the advanced explanation of benefits and good faith estimate requirements of the No Surprises Act, which addresses surprise medical billing at the federal level.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued All Facilities Letter (AFL) 22-20, which communicates that all skilled-nursing facility (SNF) residents should be considered eligible to receive treatment for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and should be evaluated by a prescribing clinician for consideration of COVID-19 therapeutics.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that both insured and uninsured people can get COVID-19 vaccines, including the new bivalent Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster, at no cost, for as long as the federal government continues purchasing and distributing them.
After months of CHA and hospitals inquiring about the requirement to test unvaccinated workers, on Sept. 13, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that it is ending COVID-19 policies that required weekly testing for unvaccinated individuals in high-risk workplaces — including hospitals, other health care and congregate settings, and schools. While weekly testing […]
On Sept. 13, CHA provided feedback to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on its voluntary methodology for reviewing hospital public assistance projects for duplication of benefits with patient care revenue from third-party payers and requested that FEMA conduct duplication of benefits reviews on an expedited basis.
CHA would like to remind members that Provider Relief Fund (PRF) Period 3 Reporting closes on Sept. 30 at 8:59 p.m. (PT).
On Sept. 9, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) uploaded three new hospital-directed payment encounter files, available via the Secure File Transfer Protocol site. It is important for hospitals to download these files as soon as possible, as the site is only intended for file transfers, not ongoing storage, and uploaded files will be […]
CHA has issued a members-only summary, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., of the final rules on requirements related to surprise billing recently issued by the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services.