Part 2: Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Waivers
If you already have a Case Manager or Early Interventionist (CM/EI), you can contact them and ask for any information they have regarding the waiver. Tell them you would like to apply for an HCBS Waiver. If you are not receiving Case Management or Early Intervention, you may contact the state agency that operates the HCBS waiver you are interested in, as listed below.
Important Note: It is important to discuss whether you or your family member may need HCBS waiver services now or later in life. Some waivers have very long waiting lists so it is important that you learn how long the wait list for that waiver may be so that you can receive the services when you need them.
In certain situations, a person might get an HCBS waiver slot faster.
For the Community Supports waiver, these situations include:
- People receiving state-funded day services
- Family members of Armed Services members who live in South Carolina
For the Intellectual Disability / Related Disability Waiver, these situations include:
- Discharge from ICF/IDD: People leaving regional centers or community-based ICF/IIDs directly into waiver funding (including people that transition directly into Home Again from the ICF/IID and then into waiver funding)
- People facing a serious and immediate risk of harm: People needing a service through the waiver that, if not provided, will likely cause serious and immediate harm, and who need immediate direct care or supervision related to their disability.
- New Housing Participants: People entering community-based housing sponsored, licensed or certified by OIDD needing waiver services.
The last category includes two types of people:
- Those needing a service through the waiver that, if not provided, will likely cause serious and immediate harm, and who need direct care or supervision related to their disability.
- Those needing a service through the waiver that, if not provided, will likely cause serious and immediate harm, and who have recently lost or are at risk of losing their primary caregiver.
If you believe you should qualify under one of these categories to receive a HCBS waiver slot more quickly, contact OIDD.
Contacts for Waiver Services
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Call the local CLTC office or submit an online referral at:
Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (OIDD)
- Phone: 1-800-289-7012