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This week, CMS released the following rules:
Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System (PPS) Final Rule Hospice Payment Final Rule Long-Term Acute Care Hospital PPS Final Rule
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Effective July 1, 2019, SB 1152 requires hospitals to have a written plan for coordinating services and referrals for homeless patients. Successful implementation will hinge upon working with your regional health care and social service agencies to ensure appropriate homeless patient discharge. Further, the law requires that hospitals maintain a log of homeless patients discharged and the destinations to which they were released after discharge.
Join Peggy Broussard Wheeler, CHA vice president, rural health & governance, at the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS) Volunteer Services mini-conferences as she explains the intricacies of SB 1152 and the updates since our 2019 California Hospital Volunteer Leadership Conference.
Registration is available until August 12, 2019. Select your desired location below for more information and to register.
Northern California | August 15, 2019 | NorthBay Healthcare Green Valley Administration Center, Fairfield
Southern California | August 16, 2019 | Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles
Questions should be directed to Melanie Shanley at (916) 552-7648 or volunteers@calhospital.org.
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The CHA Center for Behavioral Health (CBH) is calling for nominations to fill four vacancies on its advisory board.
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At this year’s Disaster Planning for California Hospitals Conference, to be held Sept. 10-11 in Pasadena, attendees will have a unique opportunity to hear directly from hospital executives about their role during and after a crisis.
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Every year, 380,000 babies in the United States are born prematurely. For families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), life can be traumatic, but also full of love and hope. In this series, we follow one California family as they experience NICU life at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital for the second time around.
Prematurity is not unusual — it affects one in ten babies. But for those who haven’t experienced the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) first-hand, that world can seem mysterious and scary.
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CHA has provided member hospitals and health systems with preliminary analyses of Medicare Hospital Wage Index and Occupational Mix data. The analyses are intended to provide hospitals with a comparative review of the wage and occupational mix data that will be used to develop the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021 Medicare hospital wage index.
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Last week, CHA sent pharmacy staff at member hospitals a survey about their new or remodeled clean room projects. The information requested in the survey will support CHA’s advocacy with respect to the rapidly approaching Dec. 1 deadline for hospitals to comply with new sterile compounding regulations.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule for the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020 inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) prospective payment system (PPS).
CMS finalized a 2.9% market basket update, offset by reductions including a productivity adjustment of 0.4% and an Affordable Care Act-mandated 0.75% reduction, resulting in a payment increase of approximately 1.75%. After accounting for a $10 million decrease as a result of an update to the outlier threshold, CMS estimates overall payments will increase by $65 million compared to FFY 2019. CMS also finalized its proposals to revise and rebase the market basket to reflect a 2016 base year rather than a 2012 base year, and remove the one-year lag in wage index data used under the IPF PPS. As a result, CMS will apply the FFY 2020 pre-floor, pre-reclassified inpatient prospective payment system wage index data.
For the IPF Quality Reporting Program, CMS finalized the adoption of one new measure — Medication Continuation Following Inpatient Psychiatric Discharge (National Quality Forum #3205) — beginning with the FFY 2021 payment determination and subsequent years.
The proposed rule is effective Oct. 1. Additional information is available in a CMS fact sheet.
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Earlier this week, Covered California released a report — Health Purchaser Strategies for Improving Quality of Care and Delivery System Reform — that reviews in detail the strategies used by health purchasers to drive value in health care.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020 final rule for the skilled-nursing facility prospective payment system (SNF PPS). The provisions in the proposed rules will be effective Oct. 1, 2020.
Highlights of the final rule include: