The Community Alternatives Program for Children (CAP/C) offers long-term, home-based nursing and other medically necessary services, supplies, and equipment to children with special healthcare needs and who live at home with their family.
CAP/C participants can receive an array of services:
- Case management
- In-home nursing or nurse aide care
- Respite time
- Home modifications such as wheelchair ramps, ceiling lifts, bathroom modifications
- Vehicle modifications, including special needs car seats
- Palliative care, expressive therapy, bereavement counseling
- Adapted tricycles
- Caregiver training and education
In addition, your child's CAP/C enrollment provides other services funded by Medicaid:
- private insurance co-pays and deductibles
- specialized therapy
- wheelchairs, walkers, standers, and other positioning and mobility devices
- assistive technology and augmentive communication devices
- diapers and incontinence supplies
- respiratory supplies and equipment
- enteral formula and supplies
- other medically necessary services
CAP/C is managed by the
North Carolina Division of Medical Assistance