What’s happening: On Feb. 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved the Medi-Cal managed care rates for the rating period from Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022.
What else to know: Copies of the federal approval letters are available on CHA’s Hospital Fee Program web page under Program 7.
This approval includes all managed care directed payment programs in that rate year, including the 12 months of the Private Hospital Directed Payment Program for Hospital Fee Program 7, and is inclusive of the split rates for the unsatisfactory immigration status and satisfactory immigration status population. These letters also include approval of the rate amendment submitted as a result of the COVID public health emergency.