Florida

This report assesses the effects of Cash & Counseling on Medicaid beneficiaries' primary informal caregivers and describes the experiences of their directly hired workers. The abstract (free) and full report (subscription required) are available.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Intended to provide historical perspective on the federal government's involvement in the Cash & Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation as an example of the federal role in consumer direction, this article describes how previous research and analysis led to DALTCP's interest in sponsoring this social experiment.

This Request for Proposals was developed for the Consumer-Directed Care Plus Program. The F/E A RFP includes sections on minimum programmatic requirements, financial specifications, and contract provisions.

This article explores savings outcomes and programmatic factors that may support savings in the Cash & Counseling Demonstration, using a convenience sample of Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries from three states: Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey.