Assessments

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.

A presentation that outlines the goals of Pennsylvania's Cash & Counseling project. A presentation and handout on Frequently Asked Questions specific for this state are also provided.

This presentation prepared by the Autism Society of Micigan outlines the cornerstones of Person Centered Planning. In addition to evaluation examples, suggestions for working with different populations in the process are provided.

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.

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 overview provides information on the factors that influence the cost of FMS.

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