2024 Consent Law Seminar
CHA’s 2024 Consent Law Seminar is your opportunity to gain insights on new laws and regulatory updates affecting risk managers, privacy officers, and sensitive patient-care situations. The seminar will focus on legal gray areas, provide updates on recent case law outcomes, and offer frontline perspectives on challenging consent situations.
New Patient Medicare Appeals Processes Proposed
What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would establish an appeals process for Medicare beneficiaries who were admitted as an inpatient but whose status changed to outpatient during their hospital stay.
What else to know: Policies are being established in response to a court order following a class action case filed in 2011.
Federal Independent Dispute Resolution Fees Finalized
What’s happening: The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury issued a final rule setting the No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution (IDR) fees.
What else to know: This was in response to an earlier court ruling that found the departments’ approach to setting the administrative fee was impermissible.
Return Hospital Engagement Letters for Area Wage Index Litigation by Dec. 8
What’s happening: Dec. 8 is the deadline for hospitals to sign up for a CHA-supported legal challenge to Medicare’s low-wage index policy.
What else to know: An updated analysis increases the estimated impact of these policies on California hospitals from $26 million to $33 million in federal fiscal year (FFY) 2024.
Proposed Changes to the No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution Process
Join CHA’s Chad Mulvany and King and Spaulding’s Amanda Hayes-Kibreab as they unpack what’s in the proposed rule and how it could impact hospitals. Changes are coming, don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve!
Explaining CMS’ 2024 OPPS and PFS Proposed Rules Webinar
On July 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2024 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule and physician fee schedule (PFS) proposed rule. CHA is hosting a members-only webinar to discuss key proposals in these proposed rules on August 21 from 9-10:30 a.m. (PT) ahead of the comment deadline.
Consent Manual
Introducing the CHA Publications App For an improved online user experience learn about the CHA Publications App Overview The Consent Manual is your one-stop resource for all legal requirements related to patient consent for medical treatment, release of medical information, reporting requirements and more. It details exactly what the law requires and what you need to […]