Accessibility Information
Your Monthly Source of Updates and Helpful Information
Important Contact Information
- Toll-free Customer Service line
1-866-761-7043 - Toll-free fax line
1-888-329-2731
CDC+ is a long-term care program alternative to the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid Waiver. The program provides the opportunity for individuals to improve the quality of their lives by being empowered to make choices about the supports and services that will meet their long-term care needs and to help them reach their goals.
Announcements
- FIU Consumer Directed Care Study —Are you age 60 or older? Florida International University (FIU) is looking for volunteers for a research study for older adults who are currently participating in a consumer directed care program. Participants will take part in an in-person interview to examine the decision-making and care management activities of adults age 60 or older in consumer directed care. Interviews can take place in the convenience of your home or at another location in the community where you are comfortable.
- CDC+ Handbook Hearing — The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is holding a Rule Hearing on the proposed CDC+ handbook. The hearing will be held on Monday, November 28, 2011, from 10 a.m. until 12 noon in Building 3, Conference Room B, at the AHCA headquaters at 2727 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee. The proposed handbook includes guidelines and requirements for the CDC+ program such as definitions, roles, responsibilities, coverage, limitations, forms, and reimbursements. A Notice of Proposed Rule appeared in Volume 37, Number 44, of the Florida Administrative Weekly (FAW) on Friday, November 4. View the draft of the proposed handbook on AHCA's website.
- Notices of Companion Service Rate Changes That May Affect CDC+ Monthly Budgets Effective September 1, 2011
- FLORIDA MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE —Effective January 1, 2012, Florida's minimum wage will increase to $7.67 per hour. All workers, except for those who perform Companion service, must be paid at least $7.67 per hour starting January 1. If you currently have directly hired employees (DHEs) earning less than this amount, please plan to submit a Purchasing Plan Update increasing their hourly rate for an effective date of January 1. We will be sending letters to those affected by the minimum wage increase. In the meantime, look at your most current Purchasing plan to ensure you are paying your DHEs at least $7.67 per hour. Additionally, keep this change in mind when negotiating rates with new employees to ensure you are compliant with this Florida wage increase. For more information, please visit http://www.floridajobs.org/minimumwage/Poster-FL_MinWage2012.pdf
Background Screening Information for CDC+ only
Claim Submissions
This is where you are to enter your CDC+ timesheets, invoices, and reimbursement requests
Participants
The on-line CDC+ Participant Refresher Training must be succesfully completed by all CDC+ participants or their representatives by July 1, 2011. For persons who do not have computer access, please contact the CDC+ Central Office Customer Service (866-761-7043) to request a hard copy training packet with instructions. The CDC+ Refresher Training is an annual requirement.
A viewable and downloadable version of the Participant Notebook and Appendix. The Appendix includes all forms that are used by participants in the CDC+ Program.
Consultants
All forms required for Waiver Support Coordinators to become enrolled with Medicaid to provide consultant services and to be entered into the CDC+ Consultant Registry, which is required before a CDC+ participant can select a consultant.
Fiscal/Employer Agent Enrollment Forms
These are all the forms required for the consumer (participant) and his or her employees and vendors to become enrolled with the Fiscal/Employer Agent. These documents provide authorization required by the Federal government and the state of Florida to pay your employees and vendors, withhold and pay employer and employee taxes and other required payroll withholdings, and communicate with the IRS and the Florida Department of Revenue on your behalf as it relates to your CDC+ household business.
- Fiscal/Employer Agent Enrollment Forms
Household Employer Forms
Forms required by the Federal government to be used by all employers to provide to their employees and/or to have prominently displayed in the workplace.