Personal care services are a Medicaid optional benefit.
Sources:
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU) and The University of California at San Francisco's (UCSF) analysis based on The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Form 372, December 2009, Table 2C. "Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Data Update" available at http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7720.cfm.
Definitions:
NA: No waiver offered. Personal Care Services: One of several optional state plan services which serves as one of three main ways a state can provide Medicaid home and community-based services. The other two are the 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Service Waiver and Home Health Benefit.
