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The Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) is preparing to make decisions with far-reaching implications for hospitals and CHA needs you.
SB 934 would expand California's existing prohibition on conversion therapy to include a prohibition on efforts to change an individual's gender identity. Recent amendments taken at CHA’s request delete the provisions that undermined the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act. CHA is now neutral.
On June 26, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the tax and managed care payment policies for the next iteration of the Hospital Fee Program (Program 9). California still awaits final approval from CMS on the fee for service payments. In the meantime, CHA has been working with the state on...
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.
What’s happening: This week, CHA’s Board of Trustees voted to formally support Proposition 2, the Save for California’s Future Act.
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...
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.
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,...
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.
