What’s happening: On Dec. 13, 2024, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) uploaded three new hospital-directed payment encounter files, available via the Secure File Transfer Protocol site, that hospitals must download as soon as possible — they will be deleted within 45 days of the upload date.
What else to know: DHCS has also published new calendar year 2023 encounter detail file toolkits for each Directed Payments program.
The hospital-directed payment encounter files cover the following service periods:
- Calendar Year 2023, Phase 2 (Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2023, service dates). The file name will be Name_CY2023P2.
- Calendar Year 2024, Phase 1 (Jan. 1-June 30, 2024, service dates). The file name will be Name_CY2024P1.
- Calendar Year 2024 Phase 1 (July 1-Dec. 31, 2024, service dates). The file name will be Name_CY2024P2.
DHCS expects plans and participating hospitals to work together on identifying and addressing deficiencies in encounter data accuracy and/or completeness. Contact the department directly at privatedp@dhcs.ca.gov with any questions or if you cannot access your data.
Future data releases are as follows:

For more information, refer to the guidance document.
Contact Adam Dorsey, group vice president, financial policy, at adorsey@calhospital.org, or Jesse Delis, vice president, financial policy, at jdelis@calhospital.org with any questions.