What’s happening: Last week, Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) announced it had submitted over 1 million signatures in support of the Health Care Endangerment Act. The initiative filed by the union would arbitrarily cap the earnings of health care professionals — forcing quality doctors, nurses, and health care leaders out of California.
What’s happening: CHA has filed an amicus brief (friend of the court) in a lawsuit involving a member of the medical staff at Hoag Memorial Hospital. The case involved allegations of misconduct by a physician at his private office and at home, not at the hospital. Although the physician had clinical privileges at the hospital, under California law, he was not employed by Hoag.
What’s happening: Last week, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted its Hospital Fee Program tax model for calendar year 2026 (Program 10) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
What’s happening: The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will issue disproportionate share hospital (DSH) April payments for the period of February-March 2026.
What’s happening: On March 27, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) uploaded three new hospital data sets that hospitals must download before the files are deleted on May 11.
What’s happening: U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui led a bipartisan letter requesting that the fiscal year 2027 appropriations bill include language barring the use of funds for implementation of any 340B Rebate Model, including the previously proposed pilot program.
What’s happening: Due to federal policy shifts, many of California’s Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) designations are currently “Proposed for Withdrawal” on July 1. An updated and more comprehensive list from the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) is available to help hospitals located in a HPSA assess their status.
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.
AB 2405 would require law enforcement agencies to transport individuals to the nearest appropriate emergency department, with specified exceptions (e.g., trauma, STEMI, stroke, mass casualty, declared emergency, diversion, etc.), and to report certain data to the Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA). The bill would also grant EMSA oversight authority, including the ability to audit, require corrective...
AB 2448 would require electronic health record (EHR) companies to develop and enable capabilities, policies, and procedures to segregate medical information related to gender-affirming care, abortion, and abortion-related services by July 1, 2024. This bill serves as a technical cleanup to AB 352 (Bauer-Kahan, 2023), clarifying that EHR systems must not only be developed but...