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CHA DataSuite has issued a hospital-specific analysis – designed in the Business Intelligence platform – of the Medicare hospital federal fiscal year (FFY) 2024 wage index and occupational mix data.
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CHA acknowledges the 20th anniversary of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System – the clarion call for patient safety – with an op-ed recognizing all California hospitals have done to respond over the last two decades, and their continued commitment to quality improvement.
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CHA has provided member hospitals and health systems with revised reports to provide them with a comparative review of the wage and occupational mix data that will be used to develop the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2020 Medicare hospital wage index.
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CHA has provided member hospitals and health systems with preliminary reports on Medicare hospital wage index and occupational mix data. The reports are intended to provide a comparative review of the data that will be used to develop the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021 Medicare hospital wage index. Hospitals are urged to review these data and submit requests for corrections by Feb. 14.
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On Sept. 27, CHA submitted the attached comments on the Enhancements of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings report, which proposed improvements to the overall star rating methodology.
In the letter, CHA urges CMS to remove the hospital star ratings until all comments are responded to and errors are addressed. CHA also shares concerns about CMS using the contractor who developed and implemented the five star methodology to also conduct the evaluation of it.
CHA strongly supports alternative approaches to an overall five star rating, as well as the proposal to remove hospitals that do not meet the public reporting thresholds for measures from its k-means clustering analysis, which adversely affects the star ratings categories.
CHA also supports CMS’ proposal to run the k-means clustering analysis to convergence, ensuring that each observation within a cluster is more similar to the other observations within that cluster than to observations in the other clusters.
CHA is pleased that CMS has announced it is postponing the October 2017 update of its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings as it continues to examine potential changes to the methodology based on public feedback. While data from the October Star Ratings Preview Reports will not be published on Hospital Compare, Star Ratings released in December 2016 will remain on the site until the next update.
What’s happening: This year’s National Patient Safety Awareness Week, which runs from March 9-15, is themed “Moving the Needle,” focusing on the importance of taking action to enhance safety for both patients and the teams that care for them.
What else to know: National Patient Safety Awareness Week is an opportunity for hospitals and health systems to renew their commitment to providing the highest quality and safest patient care.
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On Dec. 16, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will begin distributing approximately $9 billion in Phase 4 Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is reopening the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) reporting portal for Period 1 to allow providers to complete or correct their applications.
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CHA has submitted comments on the federal fiscal year 2024 inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), skilled-nursing facility (SNF) PPS, and inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) PPS proposed rules. CHA encourages members to use the drafts as a template to submit their own comment letters.
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On Dec. 22, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) committed “serious error” and exceeded his authority under the Medicare Act — a legal win for the CHA-sponsored challenge on the issue of the area wage index.