Understanding the Office of Health Care Affordability: Hospital Perspectives and Impacts
The Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) is preparing to make decisions with far-reaching implications for hospitals and CHA needs you.
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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.
DHCS Releases Hospital Fee Program 9 Draft Fee & Payment Schedule
What's happening: With the major federal approvals of Hospital Fee Program 9 on June 26, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) can begin assessing the fee and implementing the managed care portion of the program. While federal approval of the fee-for-service (FFS) payment components is still pending and expected to be received in the coming weeks,...
CARB to Host Public Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Reporting
What’s happening: The California Air Resources Board (CARB) will hold a virtual public workshop to share new details on forthcoming regulations implementing Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions reporting requirements, authorized under Senate Bill 253, for 2027 and beyond.