Family-Directed Services, Designing a New Medicaid Option for Families
Through a task force, the Department of Health and Welfare has partnered with the Center on Disabilities and Human Development (CDHD), Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities, Idaho Parents Unlimited (IPUL), and Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. (Co-Ad.) to create Family-Directed Services, a new Medicaid option for families of children with developmental disabilities.
Family-Directed Services is a Medicaid option that is being designed for families who want a more hands on and flexible approach in determining the types of service their children receive and who provides them. While this option is not currently available, it will be included in the new system redesign for children with developmental disabilities.
Family-Directed Services is being modeled after Idaho’s Self-Direction option for adults. For more information on that option, visit www.selfdirection.idaho.gov/.
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