This technical assistance brief, prepared for the Integrated Care Resource Center, provides basic information for states participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ capitated Financial Alignment Demonstration covering Medicare-Medicaid enrollees. Although not a comprehensive...

States that contract with health plans to provide comprehensive Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible enrollees in nursing facilities can work with these plans to reduce avoidable hospitalizations.

Describes how states and the federal government have grappled with the usage of taxes or assessments on health care providers to help fund the Medicaid program and an evaluation of the methodology the federal government has developed to deal with it.