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CMS Approves Children’s Hospital Supplemental Payment for CY 2025
What’s happening: On Sept. 9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved California’s Children’s Hospital Supplemental Payment Program for calendar year (CY) 2025, which will provide $230 million in total funding to support eligible network children’s hospitals.
CHA Issues Draft Comments on Physician Fee Schedule Proposals
Editor's note: On Sept. 12, CHA submitted the letter referenced below - read the final comments.
What’s happening: Members are encouraged to use CHA’s new draft comments on the calendar year (CY) 2026 physician fee schedule proposed rule as a template for their own comments.
Congress Shares Concerns About Proposed 340B Rebate Model with Health Secretary
What’s happening: A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlining concerns about the proposed 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program.
HCAI Releases Advisory Guide to Help Hospitals Meet Functional Program Requirement
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) has released an advisory guide to help hospitals develop effective functional programs, which are required for all new construction, additions, or modifications to specific hospital department functions that affect patient care directly or indirectly.
Closing Out the 2025 State Legislative Session
California’s 2025 legislative session ends tomorrow, and while much of the recent focus has been at the federal level — working to fend off record health care cuts enacted by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — at the state level, the past nine months have been dominated by a series of important bills with a California footprint.
CHA Encourages OHCA to More Comprehensively Capture Behavioral Health Spending
This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.
What’s happening: CHA has submitted comments on the Office of Heath Care Affordability’s (OHCA’s) proposed methodology for determining California’s behavioral health spending, encouraging the office to ensure its data collection accurately reflects the volume of services provided to patients across the state.
Statewide Health Equity Reports Coming Due
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Time is running short for California hospitals to submit their inaugural Hospital Equity Measures Report, as legislation passed in 2021 mandates that the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) receive the reports by Sept. 30.
Medi-Cal Children’s Health Advisory Panel to Meet on Sept. 11
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What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will convene the Medi-Cal Children’s Health Advisory Panel on Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (PT) to provide strategic input on critical issues impacting California children enrolled in Medi-Cal.
Hospitals with Delinquent Fee Program 8 Invoices Should Pay ASAP
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What’s happening: Invoices related to Hospital Fee Program 8 directed payments for July-December 2023 are now overdue, and hospitals that have not yet made payments should do so as soon as possible.
DHCS Releases Private Hospital-Directed Payment Encounter Files
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What’s happening: On Aug. 29, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) uploaded three new hospital data sets that hospitals must download as soon as possible; the data will be deleted on Oct. 12.
