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This year’s symposium will tackle the most pressing challenges facing behavioral health care professionals and offer insights into complying with California’s shifting policies. Explore the issues keeping behavioral health care professionals up at night and learn innovative ways to connect patients to community-based care. Sessions will cover nursing ratios, perinatal mental health, EmPATH, co-responder models, […]
AB 1199 would align California with current federal and national accreditation standards by allowing hospitals to conduct medical staff recredentialing and reappointment every three years instead of every two years.
Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Support Letter
Senate Health Committee Support Letter
Senate Appropriations Committee Support Letter
Assembly Health Committee Support Letter
AB 2194, as amended, would retain the two Board of Supervisor seats of the Orange County organized health system commission, known as CalOptima, establish staggered terms for board members, and require an independent external audit of the commission’s governance. With these latest amendments, CHA and the Hospital Association of Southern California remain neutral. Senate Local Government Committee...
October 19 & 20 | Sacramento As the health care landscape continues to evolve, hospital leaders face growing operational and regulatory challenges. Join CHA and finance executives from across California for an in-person conference examining the latest state and federal policy developments impacting hospitals today. Topics will include Medicare and Medi-Cal financing, state-directed payments, financial...
This week, the Legislature advanced its own version of the state budget in a suite of bills that take critical steps toward shoring up health care across California.
What’s happening: CHA is sharing two analyses prepared by Health Policy Alternatives (HPA) that cover Medicaid rules on directed payments and targeted supplemental payments as well as the implementation of community engagement (work requirement) provisions.
What’s happening: Claims and prior authorizations will not be processed by Medi-Cal Rx if the prescribing health care provider is not enrolled in Medi-Cal fee-for-service (FFS) with a Type 1 National Provider Identifier. Prescribers not yet enrolled should immediately submit their Medi-Cal provider enrollment application via the Provider Application and Validation for Enrollment page.
What’s happening: As a reminder, ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes will be required for Medi-Cal Rx claims starting this fall.
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Access and Information has released an updated version of the Advisory Guide on Functional Program.
What’s happening: As a reminder, all hospitals must submit an ambulance patient offload time (APOT) reduction protocol — required under Assembly Bill (AB) 40 (2023) — to the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) annually on or before June 30. CHA recommends hospitals submit their protocols as soon as possible.
