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Updates for the Week of May 11
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:
CMS Updates Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Specifications for 2021 Reporting.
CMS Issues FFY 2021 Long-Term Care Hospital PPS Proposed Rule
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its long-term care hospital (LTCH) prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021. Comments on the proposed rule are due July 10.
HQI’s Perinatal Mental Health Resources for Hospitals Now Available
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As part of its Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Learning Community, the Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) has unveiled a package of online resources to help hospitals strengthen approaches to maternal mental health.
CHA Board Discusses COVID-19 Impact and Response
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At its April 30 meeting, the CHA Board of Trustees discussed several aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including:
The policy work completed to date that supports hospitals’ efforts to prepare for surge capacity
CHA Issues Summaries of Federal Interoperability and Information Blocking Final Rules, CMP Proposed Rule
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published previously released final rules — one from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the other from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — intended to improve the interoperability of health information and define regulations to prevent information blocking. Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, certain provider compliance and enforcement deadlines have been updated since the regulations were first released on March 9.
MICRA Ballot Initiative Delayed to 2022
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An initiative that would revamp California’s 45-year-old Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) has been put on hold because of COVID-19. Backers of the initiative, which would increase the medical malpractice compensation cap and undermine other provider protections, have collected nearly 1 million signatures for the November 2020 ballot, but have decided to push the issue until November 2022.
Updates for the Week of May 4
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:
CMS Extends Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Hardship Exception Application to September 1
‘Care for the Caregiver’ Webinar Recording Now Available
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The Hospital Quality Institute’s “Care for the Caregiver” webinar is now available as an on-demand recording. The webinar includes practical and necessary tools to assist hospitals and their employees in creating a peer support model for adverse events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the training offers information on how to engage in empathic conversation with both patients and families. More information and the recording are available here.
CMS Launches 340B Survey
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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with its survey of hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program in order to collect actual acquisition costs for specified covered outpatient drugs (SCODs). All 340B hospitals must submit acquisition cost data during the survey response period that runs from April 24 to May 15.
CHA Provides Summaries of IRF, SNF, Hospice Proposed Rules
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CHA is providing summaries, prepared by Health Policy Alternatives, of the proposed rules for the inpatient rehabilitation facility and skilled-nursing facility prospective payment systems (PPS), and the hospice wage index and payment rate update.
