·State program
Consumer Directed Services
Consumer Directed Services allows Medicaid beneficiaries with nursing facility-level care needs to recruit and manage a paid personal assistant from relatives, friends, neighbors, or worker registries, with financial management services and a care advisor.
What you get
Services, Coverage, as recorded:
- the beneficiary negotiates the personal assistant's rate of pay, within a CAP service-plan budget based on assessed needs
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
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Does the person receiving care live in North Carolina?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
How to apply
- 01
Express interest in consumer-direction to your CAP case management entity (CME); the CME schedules a training/orientation session and the beneficiary completes a self-assessment questionnaire to determine readiness, which the CME evaluates to approve consumer-direction