A federal judge has provided more time for consumers and workers to enroll in a key Medicaid-funded home caregiver program in New York, as Department of Justice officials raised concerns about the state’s ongoing overhaul of the program.
The new enrollment deadline for patients in the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP — which controls how Medicaid pays for home health aides and caregivers to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers with disabilities — has been extended to May 15, court records show. Workers in the program now have until June 6 to register under the agreement.
The court order marked the second extension of the initial April 1 enrollment deadline for CDPAP. State health officials last month made an 11th-hour policy change to move the deadline to April 30 as Gov. Kathy Hochul faced mounting criticism of her overhaul of the program . Hochul and lawmakers approved CDPAP’s pending move to a single fiscal intermediary to run the $9 billion program . The current model relies on hundreds of companies for oversight and administration…