This week, our In Focus section comes from HMA Principal Anne Winter and Consultant Nicole McMahon, who provide an overview of HMA’s new impact analysis and implementation tool for the Medicaid manage care rules finalized earlier this year. On April 25, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Medicaid managed care rules to modernize federal Medicaid managed care regulations. Many of the new rules go into effect July 2017. The hard work of implementing the new Medicaid managed care regulations will fall squarely on the shoulders of states and Medicaid managed care health plans. For managed care plans, they must step up their operational, administrative, and reporting capabilities to accommodate new state oversight requirements across all aspects of the contract performance.