IHA Daily Briefing: October 28

Medicaid IMPACT Revalidations Due to Receive Medicaid Reimbursement
The Illinois Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is currently conducting IMPACT Medicaid provider revalidations. Providers in the October cohort must complete IMPACT revalidations by this Friday, Oct. 31, in order to receive Medicaid reimbursement. IHA urges all providers to check their revalidation cycle due date-including physicians and physician groups affiliated with your hospitals-and to check for any incomplete revalidations. NOTE: If a physician providing services at your hospital does not revalidate, your hospital will not receive payment for services provided by that physician.

If you are in this revalidation cycle and do not submit your revalidation information by Oct. 31 you will be disenrolled from the IMPACT system and cannot receive retroactive enrollment. To check your revalidation due date, search the basic information page of your IMPACT enrollment. HFS has provided IHA with step-by-step instructions to check the status and due date of servicing providers that you can access here. The IMPACT Provider Revalidation website includes step-by-step instructions, a frequently asked questions document and a townhall webinar recording.

IHA Resources: Infection Prevention News You Can Use
Last week, during International Infection Prevention Week, IHA shined a light on infection prevention and the important role that infection preventionists play in protecting patients and the community from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), outbreaks, and other infectious diseases. Click here to access the final Infection Prevention News You Can Use newsletter focused on patient education and ways to integrate patients, family members, and caregivers into infection prevention and control activities to prevent HAIs, decrease length of stay, and improve health outcomes.

We encourage you to share the "Infection Prevention News You Can Use newsletters with other healthcare professionals to raise awareness of infection prevention practices.

• Emerging Pathogens
• Quality Improvement and Infection Prevention
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Environmental Cleaning
• Patient Education

IHA would like to thank our members for their dedication to their infection prevention programs. Thank you for all you do to keep your patients, colleagues, family members and community safe. If you have questions or if there are opportunities for IHA to support your efforts, we encourage you to contact [email protected].

Updated CPR Guidelines for Choking, Opioid-Related Emergencies
The "2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC)," published last week in Circulation, is the first full revision of lifesaving resuscitation guidance since 2020. A press release from the American Heart Association (AHA) said the updates include new guidance on choking in adults, children and infants. The guidelines also provide a new algorithm for treating individuals with suspected opioid overdose-including providing public access instruction on when to use naloxone.

Updates on umbilical cord clamping and CPR recommendations for infants and children in cardiac arrest are also among resuscitation guidelines included in three chapters-Neonatal Resuscitation, Pediatric Basic Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support-that were co-led by experts from AHA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The 2025 update is the first time pediatric- and neonatal-focused CPR and ECC guidelines were developed through an equal partnership between AHA and AAP.