Industry Resources | December 5, 2014
California Medicaid 1115 Waiver Request Letter For Amendment To Implement Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System
On November 21, 2014, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted a Medicaid waiver On November 21, 2014, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted a Medicaid waiver amendment to implement a county-based organized delivery system (ODS) that would provide expanded residential treatment benefits based on medical necessity to all beneficiaries. Currently, statewide DMC residential treatment services are only available to pregnant/post-partum women in facilities with 16 or fewer beds. Through the waiver, DHCS seeks to create a DMC residential treatment service operable in facilities of any size. Counties participating in the DMC . . .