ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
To qualify for Head and Spinal Cord Injury (HASCI) Waiver Services, a person must:
- receive Case Management through the DDSN Head and Spinal Cord Division
- be eligible for Medicaid or already covered by Medicaid
- request HASCI Waiver Services through his/her HASCI Case Manager
- meet Nursing Facility or ICF/IID level of care
- have urgent circumstances affecting his/her health or functional status and depend on others to provide or assist with critical health needs, basic activities of daily living or require daily monitoring or supervision to avoid institutionalization
- need services not available from or adequate with existing resources, including family, private means and other agencies/programs to meet the basic needs of the individual to allow him/her to remain in the home
- have adequate natural supports to live safely in a private home or other community setting with the type/amount of services available from the HASCI Waiver
REASONS HASCI WAIVER WILL BE TERMINATED
HASCI Waiver services will be terminated when a person:
- voluntarily withdraws or no longer wishes to receive services funded by the Waiver
- is no longer financially eligible for Medicaid as determined by the SC Department of Health and Human Services
- is admitted to an acute care hospital for more than 30 days
- no longer meets Nursing Facility or ICF/IID level of care
- is admitted to a Nursing Facility or ICF/IID
- does not receive two waiver services in a calendar month
- moves out of the state
