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Upcoming Federal Reporting Requirements for Hospital Outreach Laboratories – Participant Information
CHA invites members to join a webinar featuring policy experts from the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) on the latest updates to the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) following passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA). The legislation provides a temporary reprieve from Medicare CLFS payment cuts and establishes a new timeline for private...
AB 1883 (Bryan, D-Los Angeles)
AB 1883 would restrict employers’ use of workplace surveillance tools that recognize, make inferences or predictions about an individual’s emotional state, or collect neural data to monitor workers. Author’s amendments taken in the Senate Appropriations Committee strike the private right of action.
AB 1669 (Pacheco, D-Downey)
AB 1669 would require colleges and universities to allow a student facing medical or mental health challenges to take a voluntary medical leave of absence for up to one year and then return to school to complete their studies. Amendments taken in the Senate Appropriations Committee provide that the bill does not waive graduation or...
CHA Urges Continued Collaboration, Improvements to Audit Tool in Comments on AB 40 Regulations
What’s happening: Last week, CHA submitted comments to the Emergency Medical Services Authority on the proposed Chapter 1.2 Ambulance Patient Offload Time Emergency Medical Services Authority regulations, which implement provisions of Assembly Bill 40 (2023).
CHA Alert: Action Needed on Distressed Hospital Loan Program, Hospital Mandates Bills
What’s happening: Earlier this week, CHA issued a dual alert asking members to sign on to coalition letters for its two sponsor bills: Assembly Bill (AB) 2353 (Pacheco, D-Downey), which would require an independent cost evaluation of mandates on hospitals, and AB 1923 (Soria, D-Merced), which would revive the Distressed Hospital Loan Program. For AB 2353, members should also submit a support letter highlighting previously imposed mandates that have caused the hospital to...
Future of Medi-Cal Commission Advisory Group Discusses Draft Priorities
What’s happening: The Advisory Group for the Future of Medi-Cal Commission held its second meeting on March 3. The group met to review and provide feedback on draft priorities that will help shape the commission’s recommendations for the long-term direction of California’s Medicaid program.
Hospital Action Required to Retain HPSA Designation
What’s happening: Approximately 100 of California’s roughly 374 Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations are currently "Proposed for Withdrawal" on July 1. This is largely due to a federal policy shift that requires all recertifications to be conducted simultaneously, as well as resource shortages within the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).
CHA Sounds Alarm on Psych Hospital Staffing Regulations
What’s happening: In recent comments to California’s Health and Human Services Agency, CHA urges the state to mitigate the incredible impact of the impending staff ratio regulations for California’s psychiatric hospitals, the patients they serve, and already overcrowded emergency departments.
Affordability, Drug Pricing in Focus at Key AHA Meeting
Discussions at this week’s American Hospital Association Regional Policy Board 9 meeting will delve into several timely and weighty issues for hospitals in California and nationwide.