Overview

The Participant Direction Option (PDO) is a model of service delivery that offers more autonomy, choice, control, and responsibility to participants receiving certain long-term care services. The PDO empowers Medicaid recipients by allowing them to hire, train, supervise, and dismiss their direct service workers. The PDO is available to all long-term care enrollees who have any PDO service on their authorized care plan and who live in their own home or family home.

Participants can

• Manage your monthly authorization using reports provided by Public Partnerships;
• Select, hire, train, and manage your own attendant care workers;
• Determine your workers' schedules and tasks so you're choosing how and when services are delivered to you;
• Establish performance evaluation criteria for each employee;
• Review and approve employee timesheets; and
• Be in charge, but also have help and support available when you need it.