Fwd: one example of pc option

>From: SteveGoldADA@cs.com
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:48:03 EDT
>Subject: one example of pc option
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>New Mexico passed its Personal Care option in 1999 .  What follows is one 
>response to the 4/11/01 Information Bulletin:
>
> "It's GREAT and that's because folks with disabilities were at the table 
>with the bureaucrats writing the regs.  We have a consumer directed option 
>that our Center (San Juan Center for Independence in Aztec, NM) is fiscal 
>intermediary for.  The [New Mexico] regs are very broad on the amount of 
>hours a person can receive, where and what services.  The person with a 
>disability develops the plan as to what they want the attendant to do, ie, 
>transportation, bowel and bladder, medication management, cueing, etc.  It's 
>not just limited to those with physical disabilities either.  The person
with 
>the disability is the employer.  They do the hiring, firing and managing.  
>Just in the last month we've been able to get two folks out of the nursing 
>home under the PC Option.  We're also paying attendant $10.20 an hour which 
>is attracting some good folks.  We live in a rural area and have already 
>created jobs for over 100 people in just a few months.  We also have the 
>Medicaid Buy-In for the Working Disabled.  It just started in January of
this 
>year but we already see it opening the door for a lot of folks, who were 
>before not elgible for Medicaid before, now becoming elgible for Medicaid 
>through the buy-in which now opens the door for them for the PC Option.  
>Better yet, it's really working and again, it's because we were again
sitting 
>at the table with Medicaid writing the Medicaid Buy-In regs.  I know it's 
>working because I see the results right here at the Center.  One of my staff 
>has not been elgible for Medicaid in the past and so lives with mom, even 
>though we have a great PC Option,  because she doesn't qualify.  On January 
>2, 2001,  she went and applied for and received the Medicaid Buy-In, got her 
>Medicaid card which made her elgible for the PC Option, is getting an 
>attendant, and moved into her own apartment this Saturday!  When you see it 
>working at home, you know you done good!
>
> If anyone wants copies of the regs, they can contact Ramon Gurule, the 
>Medicaid contact for the PC Option, call him at 505-827-3153 and I think you 
>can look at the regs on NM Medicaid's Web Site.  
> 


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