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Maryland Community First Choice self-directed personal assistance

Maryland Community First Choice self-directed personal assistance is a state Medicaid HCBS/self-direction or participant-direction pathway relevant to caregiver households because eligible members can receive home- and community-based personal assistance or related supports outside an institution. This coverage record is verified for the source-family cell from official state or Medicaid authority sources and a current application/front-door path. Exact current income category tables, rate schedules, provider enrollment mechanics, family/spouse paid-provider rules, waiting-list status, and local authorization workflows remain in backlog_records for a deeper Medicaid LTSS inventory before definitive screening or amount estimates.

Maryland Community First Choice self-directed personal assistance is a state Medicaid HCBS/self-direction or participant-direction pathway relevant to caregiver households because eligible members can receive home- and community-based personal assistance or related supports outside an institution. This coverage record is verified for the source-family cell from official state or Medicaid authority sources and a current application/front-door path. Exact current income category tables, rate schedules, provider enrollment mechanics, family/spouse paid-provider rules, waiting-list status, and local authorization workflows remain in backlog_records for a deeper Medicaid LTSS inventory before definitive screening or amount estimates.

Eligibility

  • Care recipient must have a qualifying disability
  • Relationship: parent, child, sibling, grandparent, other relative, non relative

Services

Maryland Community First Choice self-directed personal assistance is a state Medicaid HCBS/self-direction or participant-direction pathway relevant to caregiver households because eligible members can receive home- and community-based personal assistance or related supports outside an institution. This coverage record is verified for the source-family cell from official state or Medicaid authority sources and a current application/front-door path. Exact current income category tables, rate schedules, provider enrollment mechanics, family/spouse paid-provider rules, waiting-list status, and local authorization workflows remain in backlog_records for a deeper Medicaid LTSS inventory before definitive screening or amount estimates.

How to apply

  • Call Maryland Access Point at 844-627-5465.
  • Call the Community First Choice Program at 410-767-1739.

Use the official program page for application details: official program page.

  • md-community-options-waiver (companion): Community Options Waiver participants may interact with CFC personal assistance, but CFC self-directed personal assistance is tracked here as the entitlement pathway.