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...
The Future of Medi-Cal Commission Advisory Group met this week and continued conversations around a very wide-ranging set of concepts to expand the Medi-Cal program. These themes center on creating a more member-centered, integrated, and outcomes-driven Medi-Cal system. The group discussed simplifying eligibility and enrollment, improving navigation and access, strengthening community-based and interdisciplinary primary care,...
Last week, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Quinn ruled that CHA’s lawsuit against the Office of Health Care Affordability can proceed and that the court will rule on the merits of the case.
What's happening: Prior to its next meeting on Sept. 23, CHA submitted a comment letter to the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) calling attention to the fact that key hospital information — gathered at a July workshop and submitted in 43 hospital letters ahead of OHCA's comment deadline — was summarily disregarded before the...
