·State program
Personal Care Services
Personal Care Services is a Wisconsin Medicaid benefit providing assistance with activities of daily living including bathing, toileting, feeding, dressing, mobility, and personal hygiene. Services are medically necessary, ordered by a provider, and provided in the member's home or community setting under supervision by a registered nurse.
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 Wisconsin?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — non 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
“covered personal care services are medically-oriented activities related to assisting a member with ADL necessary to maintain the member in their place of residence in the community”
forwardhealth.wi.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“Wisconsin Medicaid will not reimburse services furnished by the provider when family and other household members provide the medically necessary services without reimbursement”
forwardhealth.wi.gov →
How to apply
- 01
The member's provider orders personal care services and a Medicaid-enrolled personal care agency's RN supervisor requests prior authorization by submitting the Personal Care Screening Tool (PCST), which can be filled out online at https://fsia.wisconsin.gov/ or on paper, based on an in-person evaluation of the member in their home.