APD > Consumer Directed Care Plus (CDC +)
CDC+ is a long-term care program alternative to the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid Waiver. The program provides the opportunity for individuals to improve the quality of their lives by being empowered to make choices about the supports and services that will meet their long-term care needs and to help them reach their goals.
Announcements
- Florida Direct Service Workforce Survey
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in association with the University of Florida, Agency for Persons with Disabilities and the Department of Elder Affairs, is conducting an important study on workers employed in consumer-directed care programs in seven states, including Florida. Read more…
- CDC+ PCA Transition Training Schedule
- CDC+ PCA Under 21 Implementation Schedule
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- Nursing and Therapy Assessment Rate Changes
Effective April 1, 2012 all Medicaid waiver Nursing services, Nursing assessments, and assessments for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Respiratory Therapy services will be authorized for reimbursement at the Medicaid State Plan rates. These new rates are lower than the current Medicaid waiver rates and may affect your existing CDC+ monthly budget.
- FIU Consumer Directed Care Study —Are you age 60 or older? Florida International University (FIU) is looking for volunteers for a research study for older adults who are currently participating in a consumer directed care program. Participants will take part in an in-person interview to examine the decision-making and care management activities of adults age 60 or older in consumer directed care. Interviews can take place in the convenience of your home or at another location in the community where you are comfortable.
- Notices of Companion Service Rate Changes That May Affect CDC+ Monthly Budgets Effective September 1, 2011
Claim Submissions
This is where you are to enter your CDC+ timesheets, invoices, and reimbursement requests
Participants
The on-line CDC+ Participant Refresher Training must be succesfully completed
by all CDC+ participants or their representatives by July 1, 2011. For persons
who do not have computer access, please contact the CDC+ Central Office
Customer Service (866-761-7043) to request a hard copy training packet with
instructions. The CDC+ Refresher Training is an annual requirement.
A viewable and downloadable version of the Participant Notebook and
Appendix. The Appendix includes all forms that are used by participants
in the CDC+ Program.
Consultants
All forms required for Waiver Support Coordinators to become enrolled
with Medicaid to provide consultant services and to be entered into the
CDC+ Consultant Registry, which is required before a CDC+ participant
can select a consultant.
Fiscal/Employer Agent Enrollment Forms
These are all the forms required for the consumer (participant) and his or her employees and vendors to become enrolled with the Fiscal/Employer Agent. These documents provide authorization required by the Federal government and the state of Florida to pay your employees and vendors, withhold and pay employer and employee taxes and other required payroll withholdings, and communicate with the IRS and the Florida Department of Revenue on your behalf as it relates to your CDC+ household business.
- Fiscal/Employer Agent Enrollment Forms
Household Employer Forms
Forms required by the Federal government to be used by all employers
to provide to their employees and/or to have prominently displayed
in the workplace.