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Consumer-directed care: SMMC long-term care Participant Direction Option (PDO) and Consumer-Directed Care Plus (CDC+)

Workers an enrollee or representative hires directly under the SMMC long-term care Participant Direction Option or APD's CDC+ program; everyone who renders care, family members included, is Level 2 screened.

PDO / CDC+ · ON FILE
Registries named
2
Required
1
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
2 of 2
Rules checked
October 16, 2026

Required checks

Named by a regulation, a statute or the state's Medicaid agency

  1. Florida Sexual Offender and Predator Registry

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Sex offender registry check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before the worker renders any service, within Level 2 screening: registries of every state lived in during the past 5 years
    BASIS
    § 435.04(1)(a), F.S.; § 409.221(4)(i), F.S.; SMMC Model Health Plan Contract, Exhibit II-B (LTC), PDO; CDC+ Handbook (Oct. 2015), ch. 3

    A security background investigation under this section also includes a search of the sexual predator and sexual offender registries of any state in which the current or prospective employee resided during the immediate preceding 5 years.

    Read the source leg.state.fl.us

Expected checks

Standard practice, or implied by a provider's enrollment duties; no rule names them outright

  1. List of Excluded Individuals/Entities

    HHS Office of Inspector General

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against the HHS-OIG list
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    No Florida rule found names it for participant-hired workers; 42 CFR 1001.1901 bars Medicaid payment for services by an excluded person

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Level 2 fingerprint-based screening before rendering services; a worker screened, qualified and not unemployed more than 90 days need not be rescreened but attests to no disqualifying offense since (§ 409.221(4)(i), F.S.; CDC+ Handbook, ch. 3)
  • PDO: the managed care plan pays for the Level 2 screening and makes the clearance determination (SMMC Model Health Plan Contract, Exhibit II-B)

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Florida's rules for this program, checked against the regulations as of October 16, 2026. Rules change, and an agency's own contract or license can add to them. Confirm what applies to you with Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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