Consumer Directed Services in Wentzville, Missouri

Communicare Elite provides MO HealthNet Consumer Directed Services to residents of Wentzville and the surrounding St. Charles County area. If you are eligible, you choose your own personal care attendant — including a family member other than your spouse — and we handle payroll, program paperwork and Medicaid billing.

Why home care matters in Wentzville

Wentzville marks the western edge of our service area, where St. Charles County’s subdivisions give way to farmland. It has been one of the fastest-growing cities in Missouri, anchored by the GM assembly plant, and it holds a mix that is unusual for one place: new subdivisions full of young families, and long-established rural households that were here decades before any of it was built.

Those older rural households are the ones for whom this program matters most. They are far from hospitals, far from services, and far from any agency’s comfortable staffing radius — but usually close to family and neighbors who have known them for years. Consumer Directed Services turns that existing network into the care arrangement, rather than trying to import one. Progress West Hospital in O’Fallon and the SSM and Barnes-Jewish facilities further east cover the medical side, and transport to them is frequently a significant piece of a Wentzville care plan.

How CDS works for Wentzville residents

1. Confirm you are likely eligible. You need to be 18 or older, eligible for MO HealthNet, physically disabled, able to direct your own care, and assessed at a nursing facility level of care. Full requirements.
2. Request a state assessment. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services assesses you at home. Their referral line is 866-835-3505.
3. Receive an authorized care plan listing the tasks and hours approved for you. What can be authorized.
4. Choose Communicare Elite as your CDS vendor.
5. Hire your attendant — anyone but your spouse, subject to background screening. How to choose.
6. Work begins. You and your attendant sign biweekly timesheets; we run payroll and bill Medicaid. How pay works.

What your attendant can help with

See the full list of covered tasks →

Getting paid to care for a family member in Wentzville

If you already help a parent, an adult child, a sibling or a friend in Wentzville, that work can become paid employment. Missouri law excludes only the consumer’s spouse from being a paid personal care attendant — every other relationship is eligible.

How family caregivers get paid →

Distance from our office

Communicare Elite is at 4477 Woodson Rd, Suite 106, St. Louis, MO 63134, minutes from Lambert International Airport — roughly about 40 minutes from Wentzville. Most business is handled by phone, but you are welcome at the office; call ahead so someone is expecting you.

Questions from Wentzville families

Am I too far west to qualify?

Wentzville is near the western edge of our roughly 40-mile radius but within it. For an address further out, call (314) 809-6655 and we will check.

I live on a farm outside town. Does that matter?

Not for eligibility. It does make hiring locally more important, since distance is what makes attendant arrangements fail.

Do you serve Foristell and Lake Saint Louis?

Lake Saint Louis, yes. Foristell is at the very edge — call and check with your address.

Does CDS cost me anything?

No. The program is funded by MO HealthNet. You do not pay Communicare Elite and you do not pay your attendant directly.

Can I switch to Communicare Elite from another vendor?

Yes, without reapplying for the program or losing your authorized hours. How switching works.

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