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Officers
Chair
Joan Eng, MSN, RN
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Sharp HealthCare, San Diego
Vice Chair
Margaret Swisher, RN, MSN
System VP Regulatory Readiness
Dignity Health, San Francisco
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Hear directly from CHA and the Department of Health Care Access and Information, Office of Health Care Affordability experts on how this review process will impact your hospital.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2023 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule on July 15. CMS estimates that Medicare expenditures under the OPPS will increase by $6.2 billion relative to estimated current year payments, based on changes in the proposed rule.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its calendar year (CY) 2021 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) final rule.
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On Nov. 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized Medicare payment rates for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) services. CMS estimates that Medicare expenditures under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) will increase by $1.3 billion based on changes in the final rule.
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CDPH Updates Quarantine Guidance for Health Care Personnel
Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released updated guidance on quarantine for health care personnel (HCP). All Facilities Letter (AFL) 21-08.2 aligns with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) March 10 quarantine and work exclusion guidance for HCP in response to COVID-19 vaccination. Both the CDPH AFL and CDC guidance now recommend that:
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its calendar year (CY) 2022 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) proposed rule on July 19. CMS estimates that Medicare expenditures under OPPS will increase by $1.35 billion based on changes in the proposed rule. Comments on the rule are due by 2 p.m. (PT) on Sept. 17.
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“Our affiliation with an academic medical center allowed us to bring nationally ranked programs to our South Bay community. Our patients have benefited from our ability to offer a spectrum of advanced procedures that were never previously available in our market and to provide a more advanced level of care within the community.”
– Craig Leach, President & CEO, Torrance Memorial Medical Center
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CDPH Hospital Survey for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) will soon release a COVID-19 vaccine hospital survey via an All Facilities Letter (AFL). The survey results will inform how the state allocates doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which could be available as soon as Nov. 1. There will likely be a short turnaround time to respond to the survey (a week or less), which will require information from human resources, pharmacy, employee health, information technology, and potentially other departments. Hospitals may want to determine now who will respond on behalf of their hospital or health system.
Background
On October 6, 2014, the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act) was signed into law. The Act requires post-acute care (PAC) providers — including long-term care hospitals (LTCHs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and home health agencies (HHAs) — to submit standardized data using specific reporting tools.