What’s happening: The California Health Care Foundation has issued an Explainer document that describes and compares two key Medi-Cal programs: the Assisted Living Waiver (ALW) and Community Supports (a component of California’s Medi-Cal reform initiative, California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM)).
What else to know: The document provides an overview of the ALW and the CalAIM Community Supports Nursing Facility Transition/Diversion initiative, and it explores challenges and opportunities for integration of home- and community-based services into Medi-Cal managed care. Case studies examine the beneficiary experience in both ALW counties and counties without ALW.
