Hometown helps you get paid to care for your loved ones
For years, Texas Medicaid has helped people get paid to care for their loved ones. Here's how it works.
Under Medicaid, the CDS (Consumer Directed Services) option allows individuals to select a trusted person (a family member, neighbor, spouse) as their in-home healthcare provider and get paid for it.
The catch: Texas requires a business entity to employ the loved one, do payroll, taxes, state paperwork and timesheets in order for them to get paid for the care they provide. Texas allows partners called FMSAs to handle this work for you. And that's how Hometown helps! It costs your family nothing; Medicaid pays us directly.
Your loved one has Medicaid servicesYour loved one has (or gets) Medicaid services
Programs like CLASS, HCS, TxHmL, and STAR+PLUS include attendant care hours.Programs like CLASS, HCS, TxHmL, and STAR+PLUS all include attendant care hours.
They tell their case manager: "we want CDS"
That switches the hours from agency-managed to family-managed.That switches those hours from agency-managed to family-managed. It's a standard option, not a special favor.
They pick Hometown as their FMSA
We walk through the enrollment packet together, in English or Spanish.
They hire you (or whoever they trust)
Hiring paperwork once. In many programs, family members can be paid.You fill out hiring paperwork once. In many programs, family members can be paid attendants.
You log hours, we get you paid
Paid every period, taxes withheld, W-2 at year end.Hometown pays you every period, withholds taxes, and sends a W-2 at year end.
Sound like your family? Get in line early.
Waitlist members get a call first, plus help figuring out if CDS fits.Hometown opens for enrollment soon. Waitlist members get a call first, plus help figuring out if CDS fits your situation.
Be first in line
We'll call you when enrollment opens in your program.
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