MEMORANDUMSeptember 17th, 2020
FiledSeptember 17th, 2020On November 17, 2011, the parties reached a settlement in the lawsuit Esther Darling, et al. v. Toby Douglas, et al., which challenged the State’s elimination of Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) as an optional Medi-Cal benefit. Under the settlement, ADHC will become a new program, called Community Based Adult Services (CBAS) on March 1, 2012. CBAS will be funded through an 1115 Medi-Cal Waiver and will have some different rules for participant and provider eligibility. Eventually, CBAS will be offered primarily through managed care organizations in geographic areas where Medi-Cal managed care is available. This summary is to help explain the new requirements for eligibility for CBAS.