By David Gorn, California Healthline
After more than a year of battling over eliminating and then restructuring adult day health care coverage for Medi-Cal beneficiaries, California’s budget for delivering that care is similar to what it was before all the haggling started.
The Community-Based Adult Services program grew out of a lawsuit challenging the state’s proposal and replaces the Adult Day Health Care program. CBAS will provide services to 80 percent of previous ADHC beneficiaries and is funded at a similar level to the original program.
“The original budget for ADHC was $170 million, and the current CBAS budget is
Of course, that doesn’t count the expense of legal battles, or the daunting number of man hours spent designing and implementing a new system, not to mention the constant arguing and debating over more than a year, she said. Missaelides sighed at the idea of it. Continue reading














