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The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the State's Medicaid Agency, uses federal, state, and county funds to provide health care coverage to the State's acute and long-term care Medicaid populations , low-income groups, and small businesses. Since 1982, when it became the first statewide Medicaid managed care system in the nation, AHCCCS has operated under a federal Research and Demonstration 1115 Waiver authority that allows for the operation of a total managed care model.