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The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) is a non-profit organization committed to provide timely, accurate information and data reports for California hospitals to help them continually improve patient care.  The Data Management and Analytics Staff at HQI collaborate to design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems of data acquisition to provide analytics for supporting hospital safety and quality improvement activities.  Current projects include developing and improving the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP), which is a data hub and web application allowing California

OIG Finds Hospital Overpayments for Transfer to Home Health Services

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The federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report that concludes that Medicare overpaid acute care hospitals $267 million over a two-year period, due to improper coding of the inpatient claim when the beneficiaries resumed home health (HH) services within three days of discharge.  

CDPH Making Calls, Conducting Visits to Support Hospitals

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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is calling and conducting visits to hospitals that it has identified through a new hospital dashboard it is using internally. CDPH is reiterating that this dashboard focuses on hospitals currently experiencing surges and most likely to experience them. 

Demo Shows How Hospital Quality Improvement Platform Can Identify Challenge Areas and Trends

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Join us on Aug. 20 from 1 to 1:30 p.m. (PT) to see a demo of the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform, HQI’s most dynamic analytical resource yet. The platform shows how your hospital compares to others and can identify challenge areas and trends to improve performance in critical areas. It gives you: 

See Preview of CMS’ Care Compare Website During Upcoming Webinar

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar on Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. (PT) to preview Care Compare, the updated website for quality information that will standardize and combine eight existing Compare sites.  

CHA Alert Urges Assemblymembers to Modify Seismic Mandate, Reject AG Authority Over Hospital Transactions

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On Monday, CHA issued an alert urging hospitals to write and call — by Aug. 24 — their assemblymember, and ask them to support Senate Bill (SB) 758 (Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge) related to the 2030 seismic mandate, and oppose SB 977 (Monning, D-Carmel) giving the Attorney General unprecedented oversight over hospital transactions. CHA has developed a template letter and background documents about both bills for hospitals’ use. 

Agenda Set for CHA’s Disaster Planning Virtual Conference

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The national supply chain strategy, FEMA reimbursement, crisis care guidelines, and managing hospital surges during a health care pandemic — register for the CHA Disaster Planning Virtual Conference, Sept. 15-16 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., to hear about these topics and get backstage access to speakers. 

Updates for the Week of Aug. 10

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the following updates this week:​

SNF Provider Preview Reports Now Available
Now Available: Web-Based Course on Hospice QRP Education and Training Resources by Topic with Hotlinks for Easy Access
CMS proposes updated national coverage determination for artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices

HHS Announces Opportunity to Apply for Provider Relief Fund General Distributions by Aug. 28

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The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an additional opportunity for hospitals to apply for Provider Relief Funds. Specifically, providers who missed the June 3 deadline to apply for funding equal to 2% of their total patient care revenue (from the $20 billion portion of the $50 billion Phase 1 general distribution) and certain providers who experienced a change in ownership — making them previously ineligible for Phase 1 funding — will be eligible to apply for financial relief.