Organized Health Care Delivery System (OHCDS): The term “organized health care delivery system” is a term of art appearing in a federal regulation, 42 C.F.R. ‘ 447.10(b), concerned with the payment of Medicaid monies to providers of services. In order to be an OHCDS the contractor must provide at least one Medicaid funded health care service to its consumers directly through its own employees. The OHCDS designation allows for the contractor to bill on behalf of individual providers for the payment of Medicaid payable services if the subsumed providers have a contract with the OHCDS providing for the billing arrangement.
