California Signs Memorandum of Understanding with CMS – Becomes Fifth State to Adopt Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles Initiative

On March 27, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative (MMAI) in California (the Demonstration).  California is now the fifth state to implement the MMAI, after Massachusetts, Washington, Ohio, and Illinois.  Nineteen other…