With the 2024 legislative session underway, CHA continues to work diligently to bring seismic compliance relief to California hospitals. One significant step is CHA’s sponsored Senate Bill (SB) 1432, jointly authored by a bipartisan group of Senators. The proposal provides hospitals additional time to comply with the 2030 seismic requirements, introduces additional disaster planning requirements...
The Center for Health Care Quality (CHCQ) licenses and certifies over 14,000 health care facilities and agencies in California in 30 different licensure and certification categories. Keeping licensing and certification practices consistent throughout California can be challenging. The Centralized Program Flex Unit (CPFU), a division of CHCQ, has a mission to ensure standardization and consistency...
Insurance companies must be held accountable for patient care in California. We need your help to gather data about their all-too-common business practices that impede patient care. How can we accomplish this? With your participation, we will gather the data needed to press regulators to enforce state law on network adequacy, prior authorization, medical necessity, prompt payment, parity, and more....
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently introduced the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) in Alabama, with plans to expand the program to California in the near future. Peter Thomas, Managing Partner at Powers Law, will provide an overview of CMS and the status of the RCD. He will...
CMS New Requirements for Health Equity Programs Learn what you need to know to build your health equity program to comply with the new CMS requirements. Ms. Martini-Bailey from the Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG) will discuss the tools, resources, education, and strategies developed by HSAG to assist your hospital in meeting the quality reporting requirements...
CHA DataSuite has released an on-demand educational brief on the Medicare Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program. The recording provides an overview of the HAC Reduction program and a guide to effectively interpreting the analysis released by CHA DataSuite. This is part two of the three-part series. Additionally, the Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Program Overview educational brief and...
The Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA), established in 2022, will profoundly shape health care in California. Its legislative goals are to slow health care spending growth, promote high-value system performance, and assess market consolidation. To shed light on the impacts of mergers and acquisitions in the health care space, OHCA will conduct prospective cost...
CHA is hosting a webinar to review the Office of Health Care Affordability’s various responsibilities and objectives under state law, provide a high-level update of implementation progress to date, and preview what is coming next from this important new regulatory agency. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn more and ask questions to ensure you’re prepared...
Actions taken by Governor Newsom during the 2023 legislative season will significantly impact California’s emergency departments. Many bills signed into law affect hospitals for years to come.
Hear from CHA experts as they focus on the implications of ambulance patient offload time requirements, behavioral health care laws, and discharge challenges.
Data is captured in a variety of ways but is often underutilized to impact positive change. Hospitals may be able to do a better job applying data analysis tools to reinforce goals, support or challenge processes, and demonstrate value. Join CHA to learn how UCSF Health, ranked among the nation’s top ten hospitals, utilizes dashboards...
