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
Signatures Verified for SEIU-UHW’s Compensation Cap Measure; CHA Board Backs Measure to Streamline Building Project Approvals
What’s happening: On Wednesday, Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West announced that the signatures they submitted in support of the measure to cap compensation for health care leaders have been verified by county election officials. This moves the campaign closer to qualifying the measure for the November 2026 ballot.
CHA Presses Newsom on Fee Program 9
What’s happening: In a letter sent Tuesday to Gov. Newsom, CHA pressed for expedited submission of the final payment policies for the next iteration of the Hospital Fee Program. As a reminder, the revised tax model was submitted in mid-March.
Battling Back Against Anthem’s Unlawful Hospital Penalties
CHA is taking the fight against Anthem’s new and harmful reimbursement penalty policy to the courts.
EMSA Re-Releases AB 40 Regulations; Comments Due May 18
What’s happening: The Emergency Medical Services Authority has opened a new comment period for additional modifications to the Chapter 1.2 Ambulance Patient Offload Time regulations, which implement provisions of Assembly Bill 40 (2023).
Recording of OHCA ‘High-Cost’ Hospital List Reassessment Now Available
What’s happening: A recording of CHA's April 23 webinar on the Office of Health Care Affordability’s (OHCA) planned reassessment of the “high-cost” hospital list is now available for members who many have missed it.
CHA Briefing Highlights Financial Strain Facing Rural Hospitals
What’s happening: On Tuesday, CHA held a briefing for legislative staff on the financial realities of rural health care survival.
May Budget Revise Approaches with Mixed Fiscal Signals
What’s happening: The governor is expected to release his May budget revise next week, which will kick off budget negotiations with the Legislature ahead of the June 30 deadline.
Rounding the First Turn in the Legislative Session
A critical deadline passed last week in the state Legislature and there’s good news: both of CHA’s sponsored bills — one that would expand and reinvest in the Distressed Hospital Loan Program and another that would cost out proposed laws — have passed out of their committees.
CHA Pushes Back on Commentary Attacking 340B Program
What’s happening: CalMatters has published a CHA counter op-ed on 340B that reinforces the program’s importance for patients and safety-net providers.
CHA Alert Reminder: Act Now to Support Distressed Hospital Loan Program
What’s happening: On Monday, CHA issued an alert reminder, asking members to write to the Senate and Assembly Budget Committee chairs and support the request for a one-time appropriation of $300 million for the Distressed Hospital Loan Program, as well as statutory changes to advance the program.
