Lawmakers put administrators for the state’s controversial home health care program in the hot seat Tuesday as concerns over the newest iteration of the program mount.
For years, the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, which is the state’s Medicaid-run home health care program for the elderly and disabled, had allowed hundreds of different private insurance companies to administer the program as fiscal intermediaries.
But the state budget enacted last year changed the model for the program so that one fiscal intermediary, Public Partnerships LLC or PPL, would oversee the program starting April 1…