Legal

CDPH’s Centralized Application Evolution

The Center for Health Care Quality (CHCQ) licenses and certifies over 14,000 health care facilities and agencies in California in 30 different licensure and certification categories. Keeping licensing and certification practices consistent throughout California can be challenging. The Centralized Program Flex Unit (CPFU), a division of CHCQ, has a mission to ensure standardization and consistency […]

CHA Unveils Appellate Advocacy Tracker

What’s happening: CHA has released an appellate advocacy tracker that reports CHA’s amicus efforts to provide courts with important factual context and legal analysis, highlighting the ramifications of legal issues for hospitals.  

What else to know: The tracker contains both the links to the amicus documents that CHA files and the outcome of these efforts.  

CHA Encourages Members to Participate in the Vitality Index Payer Scorecard

What’s happening: CHA is endorsing member participation in the Vitality Index Payer Scorecard, which will provide critical information to support CHA’s advocacy to hold insurers accountable for timely and accurate reimbursement.  

What else to know: The CHA Board of Trustees has endorsed this tool, which will automatically draw de-identified claims and remittance information from hospitals without requiring additional reporting or surveys.  

CHA Will Host Vitality Payer Scorecard Webinar

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What’s happening: CHA is hosting a complimentary, members-only webinar on Feb. 27 at 10 a.m. (PT) to highlight the American Hospital Association Vitality Payer Scorecard, which was recently endorsed by the CHA board.  

What else to know: The scorecard captures necessary and normalized data points without sharing protected health information. The automated process is based on de-identified claims and remittance files and eliminates the need for CHA surveys on this issue.  

CHA Files Amicus Brief Challenging HHS Online Tracking Rule

What’s happening: CHA has filed an amicus brief (friend of the court brief) with 16 other hospital associations in a lawsuit challenging a rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights. 

What else to know: The rule restricts the use of common third-party web technologies that capture internet protocol addresses on portions of hospitals’ public-facing web pages. 

2024 Consent Law Seminar

CHA’s 2024 Consent Law Seminar is your opportunity to gain insights on new laws and regulatory updates affecting risk managers, privacy officers, and sensitive patient-care situations. The seminar will focus on legal gray areas, provide updates on recent case law outcomes, and offer frontline perspectives on challenging consent situations.

New Patient Medicare Appeals Processes Proposed

What’s happening: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would establish an appeals process for Medicare beneficiaries who were admitted as an inpatient but whose status changed to outpatient during their hospital stay. 

What else to know: Policies are being established in response to a court order following a class action case filed in 2011.