CMS Deferral Letter To California Medicaid Program Citing Program Integrity Concerns
In this letter dated May 13, 2026, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services informed the California Department of Health Care Services, which oversees the Medicaid program that CMS intended to defer paying federal matching funds due to program integrity concerns. DHCS said that although the letter cites program-integrity concerns, it provides no specifics as to what these concerns are other than “statistical outliers . . .
