Users questions 

Is BlueCare the same as TennCare?

Joe Ford

Is BlueCare the same as TennCare?

TennCare provides health insurance coverage through the use of managed care. TennCare’s health plans are AmeriGroup (part of Anthem), BlueCare and TennCare Select (part of BlueCross and BlueShield of Tennessee), and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan (part of UnitedHealthcare).

What types of TennCare are there?

  • Categories.
  • Medically Eligible.
  • TennCare Medicaid.
  • TennCare Standard.
  • Uninsured.

How do I know if I still have TennCare?

You can call TennCare Connect at if you already have TennCare, but you have questions. Or if you don’t have TennCare, but you have questions.

What TennCare choices?

TennCare CHOICES in Long-Term Services and Supports (or CHOICES for short) is for adults (age 21 and older) with a physical disability and seniors (age 65 and older). CHOICES offers services to help a person live in their own home or in the community. These services are called Home and Community Based Services or HCBS.

Will TennCare pay for home health care?

Your TennCare health plan (or MCO) must be able to safely meet your needs at home. The cost of your home care includes any home health or private duty nursing that TennCare provides. This doesn’t mean you’ll receive services up to the cost of nursing home care.

Can a family member get paid to be a caregiver in TN?

Participants can receive care and support services either in their home, the home of a caregiver or family member, in an adult foster care home, or in an assisted living community. Under CHOICES, the adult children of aging parents can be paid to be caregivers.

How do I apply for TennCare choices?

How to Apply

  1. If you have TennCare and are interested in the CHOICES or Employment and Community First CHOICES program, you can call your TennCare health plan (MCO).
  2. If you don’t have TennCare, and are interested in CHOICES, contact your local Area Agency on Aging and Disability (AAAD) for free at 1-

Will Medicaid pay for assisted living in Tennessee?

Administered by the state, the program provides medical services to eligible individuals. Benefits cover hospital, nursing home, and outpatient services. In Tennessee, Medicaid is called TennCare. TennCare CHOICES is the program that pays for long-term care in a nursing facility, assisted living facility, or at home.

What does Katie Beckett cover?

The Katie Beckett Waiver covers children with complex medical needs up to their 19th birthday. Around age 18, it’s recommended that families apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). If approved, your child will receive a small cash benefit as well as full Medicaid benefits.

What is Consumer direction?

Consumer direction is a movement originating in the 1960s that provides individuals the opportunity to exercise more choice and control over long term care services. This opportunity for increased control includes both younger and older people with disabilities, as well as individuals with developmental disabilities.

What is Consumer Direct care?

Consumer Directed Care (CDC) is an approach to the planning and management of care which allows consumers and carers more power to influence the design and delivery of their services, and allows them to exercise a greater degree of choice in what services are delivered, when and where.

What does CDC stand for in aged care?

Consumer Directed Care (CDC) is a way of delivering care that gives individuals choice and flexibility. The government has included CDC principles in Aged Care laws (User Rights Principles 2014) to ensure older people’s rights are protected.

What is a service facilitator?

A Service Facilitator is a third party to which a Distributor outsources the responsibility for managing some portion of its technical, financial, legal, or operational role in distributing the Information. Service Facilitators have no right to use Information outside the Distributor’s Service.

What is the role of the facilitator?

What Is a Facilitator? The definition of facilitate is “to make easy” or “ease a process.” What a facilitator does is plan, guide and manage a group event to ensure that the group’s objectives are met effectively, with clear thinking, good participation and full buy-in from everyone who is involved.

What is process facilitation?

Process facilitation is about having a clear destination and a strong route map. This means you can all contribute fully to the event, knowing that our neutral facilitator is managing the timings and structure. …

What are skills of facilitation?

Facilitation skills are the abilities you use to provide opportunities and resources to a group of people that enable them to make progress and succeed. Some examples include being prepared, setting guidelines, being flexible, active listening and managing time.

What is a good facilitator?

An excellent facilitator is one who knows not only how to speak comfortably in front of an audience but can also convey the meeting process in a simple, concise manner. Facilitators are expected to paraphrase back individual ideas for purposes of getting better clarity and/or to validate the speaker’s intention.