California Healthline: State, Stakeholders Work To Renew Community-Based...
by David Gorn California health officials and stakeholders yesterday gathered in Sacramento to lay out a path to renew the Community-Based Adult Services program, which must be renewed by May 2014 or...
View ArticleSenior Services Coalition of Alameda County: Is Medi-Cal Coverage for Adult...
January 8, 2014 - The court settlement that preserved Medi-Cal coverage for Adult Day Health Care will expire on August 31, 2014. That settlement gave the benefit its new name – CBAS, for...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: San Francisco Adult Day Centers Get Reprieve From 10%...
by David Gorn The state Department of Health Care Services has granted an exemption from a Medi-Cal reduction to nine San Francisco adult day health care facilities catering to a frail and elderly...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: Legislators Hope To Restore Medi-Cal Provider Cut,...
In a California Healthline report by Deirdre Kennedy, experts discussed the impacts of a large Medi-Cal provider rate cut, and the legislative attempt to reverse it. California has some of the lowest...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: Adult Day Centers Still Struggling
by David Gorn, California Healthline Sacramento Bureau It has been a tough couple of years for Moli Steinert, executive director of Stepping Stone, a collection of four facilities in San Francisco...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: Duals Demonstration Project Begins
by David Gorn The duals demonstration project launched last week in five counties, according to officials from the Department of Health Care Services, which is overseeing the project. Only one county...
View ArticleCAADS: Call to Action – 10% RATE RESTORATION ADVOCACY UPDATE
From our colleagues from CAADS: We need every friend of CBAS to contact the Assembly and Senate Budget Sub-Committees and Committee Chairs Skinner and Leno along with new Speaker Toni Atkins (San...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: Bill To Extend Adult Day Program OK’d
by David Gorn A state Senate committee this week unanimously approved a measure to extend the end date of the adult day health care program as a Medi-Cal benefit in California. Adult day care is...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: Governor Rejects Adult Day Health Bill; Future of...
by David Gorn On Monday, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoed a bill to codify Community Based Adult Services as a Medi-Cal benefit and continue offering it as a benefit into the future. The state has attempted...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: One Waiver Down, One More To Go?
by David Gorn With its current waiver, California successfully expanded Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, and launched the dual eligibles demonstration project. That federal-state agreement — known as a...
View ArticleCalifornia Healthline: State ‘A Few Weeks’ From Waiver Draft
by David Gorn The state is weeks away from finishing the first draft of a new 1115 federal Medicaid waiver, according to Jennifer Kent, director of the Department of Health Care Services. In her first...
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