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Comments on the proposed rule are due to CMS by June 9. Join CHA’s Megan Howard and Chad Mulvany as they provide a summary of the proposed rule implications on your organization and how you can share your concerns on the impending changes.
This legislation is the most significant change to recycling and waste disposal since the 1980s and impacts everyone from all levels of government, schools, colleges, and universities to businesses such as hospitals, and individual residents — essentially anyone who generates organic waste. The following FAQs describe the requirements that businesses — including hospitals — must...
Mountains Community Hospital is a full-service hospital with 17 medical/surgical beds, a 24-hour emergency department, a heliport, 18 extended care and recovery beds, full laboratory and radiology facilities, and two surgical suites. Medical services include: Dentistry Dermatology Emergency medicine Family practice General surgery Internal medicine Opthamology Orthopedics Pathology Pediatrics Podiatry Psychology Radiology 29100 Hospital Rd.Lake […]
Why you should attend: Hear from Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, a leader on behavioral health in the Legislature, and get an update on public policies, politics, and financial issues shaping behavioral health care in California.
When: Dec. 12-13 at the Kimpton Sawyer Hotel in Sacramento.
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Following last week’s release of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed $322 billion budget for 2025-26, work will now focus on ensuring allocations from a recently approved managed care organization tax are delivered in accordance with the intent of the ballot measure passed in November.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued several new and updated All Facilities Letters (AFLs).
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is tasked with providing emergency assistance to hospitals. The FEMA application process is complex, and the review process takes time. However, a hospital can request an expedited payment while it waits for its application to be processed. In partnership with Region 9 FEMA and CalOES, CHA is hosting a...
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This post has been archived and contains information that may be out of date.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is tasked with providing emergency assistance to hospitals. The FEMA application process is complex, and the review process takes time. However, a hospital can request an expedited payment while it waits for its application to be […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has issued an updated policy that simplifies procedures and documentation requirements for the public assistance (PA) program to support rapid recovery for applicants.
Late yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the attached final rule updating the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) for calendar year 2018. CHA is extremely disappointed that CMS finalized its proposal to significantly cut Medicare payments to hospitals for drugs that are acquired under the 340B Drug Pricing Program. Specifically, CMS will pay separately payable, non pass-through drugs (other than vaccines) purchased through the 340B program at a rate of the average sales price minus 22.5 percent, rather than average sales price plus 6 percent. In a change from the proposed rule, CMS will exclude sole community hospitals in rural areas, prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals and children's hospitals from this policy for calendar year 2018. Critical access hospitals are not subject to the OPPS, so they are not impacted by this policy.
CHA will work collaboratively with state and national hospital associations in a coordinated effort to reverse the policy. However, without additional legislative or administrative action, the policy will take effect Jan. 1, 2018, threatening access to care for our most vulnerable patients.
