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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CMS Delays Start Date for Proposed Payment Model to Expand Kidney Transplant Access
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) anticipates it will delay the proposed Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model start date until after Jan. 1, 2025.
What else to know: CMS anticipates a start date delay because it is still working to finalize the rule; the agency has not yet shared a new start date.
CMS Guidance Clarifies Hospital Respiratory Illness Data Reporting Requirements Effective Nov. 1
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What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance to hospitals and state surveyors that underscores the importance of following reporting requirements for new hospital respiratory illness data reporting conditions of participation (CoP).
What else to know: CMS also clarifies in the guidance that psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation hospitals will report their daily COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus data annually rather than weekly.
Keep an Eye on Your Inbox for Key Election Results
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Election Day is just five days away, and the outcome will have significant consequences for our nation, California, and the state’s health care system. The result of the presidential race alone could lead to significant changes in health care policy across the board.
California’s Hospitals, Doctors Seek Congressional Delegation Support in Preserving Access to Care
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What’s happening: In a joint letter to the California congressional delegation, CHA and the California Medical Association (CMA) asked members to support access to health care for all Californians in year-end legislation.
What else to know: Critical federal health care legislation on Medicaid, Medicare, and telehealth will be up for votes in December.
CHA DataSuite Analysis Shows How Medicare Inpatient FFS Payments May Change from FFY 2024 to FFY 2025
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What’s happening: On Oct. 28, CHA DataSuite issued a hospital-specific analysis of the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025 Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) interim final rule.
What else to know: The analysis shows hospitals how Medicare inpatient fee-for-service (FFS) payments may change from FFY 2024 to FFY 2025 based on the policies set forth in the FFY 2025 IPPS interim final rule — which includes changes from the FFY 2025 IPPS final rule correction notice.
2024 Behavioral Health Care Symposium’s Early Bird Deadline Draws Near
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What’s happening: CHA’s 2024 Behavioral Health Care Symposium is coming to Long Beach on Dec. 4-5 and will bring California’s hospital leaders together to discuss innovative ways to connect patients with community-based care, among many other things. Registration is open, and early bird tuition ends Nov. 11.
What else to know: California Surgeon General Diana E. Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA, will deliver the opening keynote, and sessions include how to tackle stigma toward people living with substance use disorders, collaborating to help patients with complex needs, and updates to California’s involuntary treatment and emergency services laws.
CHA Releases Report to Help Hospitals Comply with New Laws
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What’s happening: Hospitals can use the 2024 Report on State Legislation as they navigate the many health care-related bills the governor signed into law this session.
What else to know: The report summarizes the most significant health care bills of the year, as well as broader legislative changes that affect patients and employers.
CHA DataSuite Analysis Examines Readmission Reduction Program Performance
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date. What’s happening: On Oct. 30, CHA DataSuite issued a hospital-specific analysis of the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2025 readmission reduction program (RRP) that provides detailed performance information on the readmissions conditions currently evaluated under the Medicare hospital RRP. What else to […]
HCAI Releases Updated Code Application Notice on Tests, Special Inspections
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What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) revised the Code Application Notice (CAN) on tests and special inspections to expand the program’s scope.
What else to know: The Policy Intent Notice (PIN) 58, OSHPD Preapproved Agency (OPAA) for Tests and Special Inspections — from HCAI’s Office of Statewide Hospital Planning and Development (OSHPD) — summarizes the processes and procedures for this OPAA program, as well as generic issues related to approved agencies. On Oct. 23, PIN 58 was updated to expand the OPAA program’s scope to all disciplines (from structural only) and add clarification for fire life safety acceptance.
CHA Webinar Covers Key Developments in Behavioral Health Policy
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What’s happening: A complimentary, CHA members-only webinar on Oct. 30 from 9-10 a.m. (PT) will tackle the current “state of the state” around behavioral health care policy updates and how they’re affecting care delivery and patient outcomes.
What else to know: Registration is open.
