·State program
Participant Direction of Services
Participant Direction of Services allows eligible Medicaid beneficiaries living in their own residence or a family member's home to direct and manage their personal care services, including overnight assistance.
What you get
Services, as recorded:
- Overnight Personal Assistance Services: up to eight hours of awake overnight assistance
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Pennsylvania?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — spouse, parent, or other relative — count for this program?
- 03
What counts as a qualifying disability or level of care need, and what documentation shows it?
- 04
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 05
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 06
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 07
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 08
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Disability of the person receiving care
“tasks of daily living that would be performed independently if the individual had no disability”
pa.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“X Relative Legally Responsible Person”
pa.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Elect self-direction with your Service Coordinator when developing the person-centered service plan (PCSP), at reassessment, or at any time