Cash and Counseling

This study assesses the effects of consumer direction on the experiences and well-being of the primary informal caregivers of children who participated in Florida's Cash & Counseling demonstration. Instead of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver benefits, the demonstration program provided a monthly allowance and let parents hire providers and manage the other services and goods their child needed.

Arkansas’ Cash & Counseling Demonstration program, IndependentChoices, was studied to examine the ways in which consumer-direction affects the cost of Medicaid personal care services, as well as the cost and use of other Medicaid and Medicare services. The study also examines the affect the program had on service utilization.

This study of Florida's Cash & Counseling demonstration program, Consumer Directed Care (CDC), compares children's use of services and quality of care under traditional versus consumer-directed approaches to Medicaid HCBS.

These talking points were developed for West Virginia's Personal Options program. They provide information on support services and the participant responsibilities.

This paper focuses on the first three stages of the CCDE: Choosing states and the evaluator, preparation, and implementation/data gathering. This paper is part of Consumer Voice and Choice in Long-Term Care, a book inspired by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- and Scripps Gerontology Center- supported conference.

This guide to self determination programs in Michigan provides information on person centered planning, service options, budget development, fiscal services and more.

A description of Florida's Cash & Counseling program implemented under an Independence Plus 1115 waiver amendment including information on organization and structural administration, reporting items, and benefits.

This website contains forms, brochures and enrollment information for Florida's Consumer Directed Care program.

This notebook is used for training consumers in Florida's Consumer-Directed Care Plus program, this notebook highlights roles and responsibilities for consumers.

This section of Vermont's program manual provides more information on what allowable budget uses are under the Flexible Choices program and further information about program eligibility.