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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CalRHT Grant Applications Open, Partnership Assessment Tool Now Available
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) has released details on several new funding opportunities under the California Rural Health Transformation (CalRHT) Program.
CMS Proposes Changes to Medicaid Provider Tax Rules
What's happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a proposed rule implementing the provider tax provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), while also proposing additional policy changes that would strengthen federal oversight of Medicaid provider taxes.
CHA Signs on to Second Letter on Cal/OSHA’s Proposed Changes to Walkaround Rule
What’s happening: CHA has signed on to a second coalition letter on the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) proposed rulemaking for Employer Representative and Representative Authorized by Employees During Workplace Inspections (walkaround rule). It would govern when employer representatives and employee-authorized representatives may accompany Cal/OSHA personnel during workplace inspections.
EMSA Pausing Audit Tool Compliance Activities Through August
What’s happening: The Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMSA) is pausing some activities associated with Assembly Bill 40 compliance and the ambulance patient offload time (APOT) Audit Tool. All APOT audits, compliance evaluations, and ongoing biweekly calls with participating facilities exceeding their APOT standard will be paused through August 2026.
DHCS to Host July 30 Town Hall on Enrollment Requirements for Pharmacy and Medical Billing Claims
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will host a town hall on July 30 at 9:30 a.m. (PT) to explain Ordering, Referring, and Prescribing (ORP) enrollment requirements for claims across both pharmacy (Medi-Cal Rx) and medical (CA-MMIS) billing systems. While event registration is currently full, interested members should join the waitlist — CHA...
The Other Half of the Affordability Conversation
A pair of recent articles by nationally renowned health care policy experts — one in Health Affairs and one in The New York Times — underscores points that CHA has been making for years around the unintended consequences of artificially capping spending on health care services without adequately considering the impact on access to care, jobs, and patients’ experience.
Make Your Voices Heard on OHCA, Artificial Intelligence
Through the end of this month, hospitals have a brief window to elevate their voices on two critical issues that could be decided in a matter of weeks.
CHA Formally Supports Measure to Increase CA’s Rainy Day Fund
What’s happening: This week, CHA’s Board of Trustees voted to formally support Proposition 2, the Save for California’s Future Act.
CHA Urges OHCA to Protect All Health Care Workers
What’s happening: This week, CHA commented on the Office of Health Care Affordability’s (OHCA’s) draft regulations implementing the nonsupervisory organized labor cost adjustment to the spending targets. In the letter, CHA stresses that the proposal “falls short of the Legislature’s overarching goals and directives, fails the office’s policy imperative to treat all workers equitably, and creates a policy that is largely unworkable...
HQIP Offers Support for Hospital Equity Reports, Due Sept. 30
What’s happening: California hospitals are required to submit an annual Hospital Equity Report to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) by Sept. 30.
