EDWP (SOURCE & CCSP) Waiver Services
What is the EDWP Program?
SOURCE + CCSP (Traditional/Enhanced) are part of the EDWP. Both SOURCE and CCSP assists individuals who are elderly and/or functionally impaired to remain in their homes and/or communities. For eligible consumers, EDWP offers community-based services as an alternative to nursing facility placement. The Department of Community Health administers and operates the EDWP.
- A Medicaid waiver provides recipients certain services not normally covered by Medicaid for a person with intellectual, developmental, physical disabilities. These services can take place in the person’s home or in the community.
- The Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program (formerly CCSP) serves frail, elderly, and disabled Georgians. It provides coordinated services in their home or community.
- The Elderly and Disabled Waiver Program can provide adult day care, alternative living services, personal care, home delivered meals, and respite care for family caregivers.
What services are available through this program?
Who is eligible for EDWP?
Home-Delivered Services
▪ Skilled nursing services
▪ Physical, speech and occupational therapy
▪ Medical social services and home health aide assistance
▪ Personal care and assistance with meals
Personal Support Services
▪ Assistance with meal preparation, hygiene and nutrition
▪ Light housekeeping, necessary errands, and other support services
▪ In-home respite care provided by an aide
The eligibility criteria for EDWP include the following:
▪ Functional impairment caused by physical limitations NOTE: Alzheimer’s and dementia are physical conditions.
▪ Unmet need for care
▪ Approval of an intermediate level of care (LOC) certification for nursing home placement
▪ Approval of care plan by client’s physician
▪ Medicaid eligible or potentially eligible after admission to EDWP
▪ Client chooses community-based, rather than institutional services
▪ Services fall within the average annual cost of Medicaid reimbursed care provided in a nursing facility. Health and safety needs can be met by EDWP
▪ Participation in one waiver program at a time
▪ Medicare home health services or hospice (Medicare or Medicaid) does not meet consumer need for services
▪ Home Delivered Meals is not the only service need
▪ The home environment is free of illegal behavior and threats of bodily harm to other persons.
A client is not required to be homebound to receive EDWP services.
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