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CNN Hero of the Year to Speak at 2024 Behavioral Health Care Symposium
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What’s happening: CNN's 2023 Hero of the Year, Kwane Stewart, DVM, is a featured speaker at CHA’s upcoming 2024 Behavioral Health Care Symposium, being held in Long Beach Dec. 4-5. What else to know: Dr. Stewart, a practicing veterinarian in California, will share his personal story about founding Project Street Vet, which offers free veterinary...
CHA Letter Shares Support, Feedback on Annual Data Submission Requirements for MA Plans
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What’s happening: In a Nov. 12 letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), CHA conveyed its strong support for proposed implementation of additional data collection and audit procedures for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans’ utilization management policies and tools — and shared additional comments. What else to know: CHA has consistently advocated for...
HQI’s Nov. 21 Virtual Forum Offers Innovative Tools for Workplace Violence Prevention
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What’s happening: Registration is open for the next monthly virtual forum in the Hospital Quality Institute’s (HQI) Community of Practice (CoP) on Eliminating Hospital Workplace Violence. What else to know: The forum will take place on Nov. 21 from noon to 1 p.m. (PT); it will explore two approaches hospitals are using to help prevent...
CHA Presses for Elimination of Medicaid DSH Payment Reductions
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What’s happening: On Nov. 13, CHA issued an alert urging hospital leaders to ask their U.S. representative to sign on to a bipartisan letter requesting House leadership to stop the pending Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment cuts. Hospital leaders should contact their representatives to sign the bipartisan letter before the Dec. 6 deadline. What ...
Prop 35 Passage Kickstarts Work to Develop, Implement Methodologies to Distribute Funding
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What’s happening: On Nov. 5, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition (Prop) 35, making an existing tax on managed care organizations (MCO) permanent under state law — and directing most of the revenues toward expanding access to care for Medi-Cal patients through improved provider reimbursement. Now, work by the state, hospitals, and others to determine how these...
The Time to Act on Medi-Cal Funding Is Now
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Earlier this week, CHA joined a coalition of hospital associations in California in sending a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom seeking expedited submission of proposed reimbursement programs that require federal approval.
Reminder: Hospital Fee Program Invoices Due Nov. 27
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What’s happening: On Nov. 27, payments for the 2024 Hospital Fee Program, fee-for-service payment cycle 6, are due to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS).
What else to know: DHCS mailed invoices to hospitals on Oct. 28.
CMS Initiates Collection of SNF Ownership Information
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun notifying skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) of new requirements to report detailed information about ownership and management. What else to know: SNFs must disclose this information on the updated Medicare Enrollment Application (CMS-855A) form attachment, for which CMS has provided additional guidance. Over the next few...
CMS Reduces Medicare Payments to Physicians in Final Rule
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) final rule, in which the final CY 2025 PFS conversion factor is $32.35 — a decrease of 2.8% from CY 2024. What else to know: CMS published a fact sheet on the CY 2025 Medicare PFS that...
Prop 35 Passage Means Historic Investment in Medi-Cal
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California voters earlier this week overwhelmingly passed Proposition 35, a once-in-a-generation investment in the state’s Medi-Cal program and a permanent commitment to the vulnerable Californians who rely on it for health coverage.
