ELIGIBILITY:
All Medicaid recipients 0 through 20 years of age not receiving Individual Family Support waiver services. However, once a recipient receiving Individual Family Support waiver services has exhausted those services they are then eligible for EPSDT Personal Care Services.
COVERED SERVICES:
Basic personal care-toileting & grooming activities.
Assistance with bladder and/or bowel requirements or problems.
Assistance with eating and food preparation.
Performance of incidental household chores, only for the recipient
Accompanying, not transporting, recipient to medical appointments.
Does NOT cover any medical tasks such as medication administration, tube feedings, urinary catheters, ostomy or tracheostomy care.