tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 5

Medicaid: CMS Pushes Self-Directed Care

Medicaid benes would hire and manage their own assistants under proposed rule Businesses relying on Medicaid revenues should get ready for a possible change. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants Medicaid beneficiaries to be able to hire, manage and fire their own personal care assistants, rather than get aide services through a home health agency. In a proposed rule scheduled for publication in the Jan. 18 Federal Register, CMS sets out a self-directed care option for Medicaid-funded personal services. Beneficiaries could even hire their own family members to furnish aide services, CMS notes in a press...

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