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.
Newsroom
Updates for the Week of Aug. 17
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:
SNF Provider Preview Reports – Now Available Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) November 2019 Technical Expert Panel (TEP) Report
CMS Directs CDPH to Resume Specified Enforcement Activities
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On Aug. 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance QSO-20-35-ALL, which directs State Survey Agencies, including the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), to resume specified enforcement activities that had previously been suspended.
Care Can’t Wait – Public Service Announcement
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CHA released a new public service announcement this week for the Care Can’t Wait campaign to TV and radio stations across the state. Click read more below to see the video.
OIG Finds Hospital Overpayments for Transfer to Home Health Services
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The federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report that concludes that Medicare overpaid acute care hospitals $267 million over a two-year period, due to improper coding of the inpatient claim when the beneficiaries resumed home health (HH) services within three days of discharge.
CDPH Making Calls, Conducting Visits to Support Hospitals
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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is calling and conducting visits to hospitals that it has identified through a new hospital dashboard it is using internally. CDPH is reiterating that this dashboard focuses on hospitals currently experiencing surges and most likely to experience them.
CHA Comments on Proposed Regulations on Adverse Events Reporting
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CHA has submitted comments to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on its proposed regulations on hospital adverse events.
Demo Shows How Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Can Identify Challenge Areas and Trends
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Join us on Aug. 20 from 1 to 1:30 p.m. (PT) to see a demo of the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform, HQI’s most dynamic analytical resource yet. The platform shows how your hospital compares to others and can identify challenge areas and trends to improve performance in critical areas. It gives you:
See Preview of CMS’ Care Compare Website During Upcoming Webinar
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar on Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. (PT) to preview Care Compare, the updated website for quality information that will standardize and combine eight existing Compare sites.
CHA Alert Urges Assemblymembers to Modify Seismic Mandate, Reject AG Authority Over Hospital Transactions
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On Monday, CHA issued an alert urging hospitals to write and call — by Aug. 24 — their assemblymember, and ask them to support Senate Bill (SB) 758 (Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge) related to the 2030 seismic mandate, and oppose SB 977 (Monning, D-Carmel) giving the Attorney General unprecedented oversight over hospital transactions. CHA has developed a template letter and background documents about both bills for hospitals’ use.
Agenda Set for CHA’s Disaster Planning Virtual Conference
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The national supply chain strategy, FEMA reimbursement, crisis care guidelines, and managing hospital surges during a health care pandemic — register for the CHA Disaster Planning Virtual Conference, Sept. 15-16 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., to hear about these topics and get backstage access to speakers.
