Minnesota Medicaid Launches New Community First Services & Supports HCBS Program

On October 1, 2024, the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Aging & Disability Services Division launched the new Medicaid Community First Services and Supports (CFSS) program to provide home- and community-based services (HCBS) for beneficiaries needing assistance with activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, health-related tasks, or behavior monitoring and redirection. With the launch, DHS is transitioning nearly 50,000 Medicaid beneficiaries who have been receiving personal care assistance (PCA) and about 3,900 who have been receiving consumer support grant (CSG) services to access the new CFSS services. To avoid disruption during the transition . . .