Adult Medicaid
Star Plus Programs
STAR+PLUS is a Medicaid managed care program designed to provide health care, acute and long-term support through a managed care system. It is available to adults.
Services:
Long-term services and supports can include:
- Day Activity and Health Services (DAHS)
- Personal assistance services
- Habilitation services (learning to do activities of daily living)
- Emergency response services
Other services under the STAR+PLUS Home and Community-Based Services program include:
- Personal assistance services
- Adaptive aids
- Adult foster care home services
- Assisted living
- Emergency response services
- Home delivered meals
- Medical supplies
- Minor home modifications (making changes to your home so you can safely move around)
- Nursing services
- Respite care (short-term care to provide a break for caregivers)
- Therapies (occupational, physical and speech-language)
- Transition assistance services if someone is leaving a nursing facility to live in their home
Primary Home Care
Primary Home Care (PHC) provides non-technical, non-skilled, in-home attendant services to people who have an approved medical need for assistance with personal care tasks. PHC is available to eligible people whose health problems cause them to be functionally limited in performing activities of daily living according to a practitioner's statement of medical need. Attendants provide PHC services.
Services:
- Escorting a person to medical appointments for diagnosis and/or treatment.
- Home management to help with housekeeping activities that support the person's health and safety.
- Personal care related to the care of the person's physical health.
Personal Attendant Services (PAS)
- Bathing: Including water preparation, assistance in/out of tub/shower, bed/spa bathing, or bedside sponge bath
- Dressing: Assisting with dressing/undressing and laying out clothes
- Meal Preparation & Feeding: Cooking full meals, warming food, planning meals, cutting food, spoon- or bottle-feeding, and providing assistance with eating using adaptive devices
- Grooming & Hygiene: Shaving, teeth brushing, nail care, skin/hair routine, and applying lotion or makeup (non-prescription only)
- Medication Assistance: Reminding clients to take medications, opening containers, measuring doses, reordering from pharmacy—only when client can direct the process
- Toileting: Includes assisting with diapers, ostomy/urinal care, catheter bags, feminine hygiene, toilet hygiene, and standby assistance
- Transfer & Ambulation: Non-ambulatory repositioning, assisting rising from sitting, and aiding with walkers, wheelchairs, or steps (excluding heavy lifting)
- Housekeeping & Clean-up: Cleaning personal-use areas, emptying commodes, changing bed linens, dusting, washing dishes, kitchen counters/stovetop, taking out trash
- Laundry: Sorting, hand-washing, machine washing (including at laundromat), drying, folding, and putting away clothes
- Shopping & Errands: Making shopping lists, grocery pick-ups, pharmacy visits, and storing items
- Escort Services: Accompanying clients to medical appointments or community outings (escort time is documented and allocated weekly)
Call us and we can help see if you qualify for these services.
