The newsroom includes access to CHA News, which provides timely information to members every Thursday and is at the core of CHA benefits. In addition, it is also home to resources such as toolkits and talking points designed to help member hospitals and health systems communicate with internal and external audiences on a range of current health care-related issues. Links to CHA media statements and press releases can also be found here.
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Hospital Leaders Meet With California Congressional Delegation on Surprise Billing and Other Crucial Issues
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Hospital leaders from around the country — including more than two dozen from California — convened in Washington, DC, this week for the American Hospital Association’s national meeting of its regional policy boards.
CHA Submits Joint Letter on Proposed Rule to Rescind Methods Assuring Access to Covered Medi-Cal Services
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CHA, the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Private Essential Access Community Hospitals, Inc., the California Children’s Hospital Association, and the District Hospital Leadership Forum have submitted a joint letter opposing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule that would rescind current requirements for the way states assure access to covered Medicaid services.
More Than 700 Gather in Pasadena for Disaster Preparedness Conference
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Recognizing the importance of learning from recent disasters and from one another, more than 700 hospital and disaster response officials from across California gathered in Pasadena this week at CHA’s annual Disaster Planning for California Hospitals conference.
CMS Postpones Billing Edit Requiring Exact Matching for OPPS Providers With Multiple Service Locations Until April 2020
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In response to continued pressure from CHA and other stakeholders, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has further postponed activating billing edits requiring exact matching for the address on claims data for outpatient prospective payment system providers with multiple service locations. The edits are now scheduled to be fully implemented in April 2020, allowing for additional agency testing and provider updates.
Free Member Forum Thursday to Explain ‘Public Charge’ Final Rule
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The Trump administration’s “public charge” final rule could significantly impact hospitals’ relationships with patients and the communities they serve. To help hospital staff better understand the rule, CHA will hold a members-only forum, “Public Charge Final Rule: How to Communicate with Patients,” Sept. 12 from 1-3 p.m. (PT).
DHCS Announces Coverage Changes for Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans, Coordinated Care Initiative
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The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has announced it will make long-term care and transplant coverage the responsibility of all Medi-Cal managed care plan model types — including Two Plan, Geographic Managed Care, Imperial, Regional, and San Benito — effective Jan. 1, 2021. These benefits are currently carved in to County Organized Health Systems, and no changes will be made for them.
CHA Issues Alerts on Employment Status, Nurse Staffing Ratio Penalty Bills
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Yesterday, CHA issued two Advocacy Alerts: one on Senate Bill (SB) 227 (Leyva, D-Chino), which creates unnecessary and duplicative penalties for hospitals that don’t meet nurse staffing rations, and one on Assembly Bill 5 (Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego), which threatens hospitals’ ability to contract with independent businesses — such as nurse registries, staffing agencies or other employers — for critical patient services.
Deadline Approaching to Join CHA’s Legal Effort on Area Wage Index Policy
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Sept. 13 marks the deadline to join CHA’s legal effort in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ changes to its area wage index policy, which could result in a loss of approximately $100 million over the next four years for California’s impacted hospitals.
Information about joining this effort was shared with hospitals via email earlier this month and is available on the CHA website. To participate, interested hospitals must submit their engagement letters by Sept. 13.
AHA Survey on Plan Denials, Network Adequacy Deadline Extended to Sept. 15
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The deadline to respond to the American Hospital Association survey requesting information on private plan utilization management practices and network adequacy has been extended to Sept. 15. California hospitals’ response rate has been low to date, and participation in this survey is important to our collaborative advocacy efforts. CHA will receive the California data.
CHA DataSuite Releases Analyses of 2020 Long-Term Care and Skilled-Nursing Facility Final Rules
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CHA DataSuite has issued two hospital-specific analyses — one detailing the Centers for Medicare & Services (CMS) federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020 long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS) final rule, and the other detailing FFY 2020 Medicare skilled-nursing facility PPS final rule.
