Participant Self Direction

This tip sheet suggests steps that managed care plans can take to ensure that case managers are effectively trained on approaches to promote person-centered planning in self-directed delivery models for home- and community-based services.

This questionnaire helps individuals and health plan case managers to select an appropriate person to be informally designated as a representative decision-maker.

This questionnaire helps case managers to assess the ability of an individual to self-direct services, and if the individual requires assistance from a representative.

This informational bulletin summarizes guidance on implementing Section 2402 (a) of the Affordable Care Act, the provision that requires all states develop systems for delivering person-centered planning and self-direction of home and community-based services and supports.

This technical assistance tool covers key issues in the development of requests for proposal (RFPs) and contract provisions related to participant-direction options in Medicaid managed LTSS (MLTSS) or integrated Medicare and Medicaid programs.

This video describes one social worker's approach to person-centered planning and explanation of self-direction.

This document accompanies the video and provides questions to help health plan case managers examine their impressions and opinions of what they have watched in the video.

The National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services explains participant direction and how it can be included in contract language, and staff from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System give an example of how Arizona implemented participant direction in its long-term care system (ALTCS).