State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (S.D. 33) shared his reaction on Friday, April 11, to news announced April 10 of a preliminary injunction agreement which delays a controversial transition deadline for the CDPAP homecare program by NYS Department of Health (DOH) to May 15 for consumers, and to June 6 for caregivers.
As reported, DOH is transitioning the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) from around 600 individual fiscal intermediaries (FIs) to one selected, statewide FI, Public Partnership, LLC (PPL).
CDPAP is a New York State Medicaid program that allows Medicaid members who are eligible for home care services to choose and hire their own personal caregiver, or “personal assistant”. This can include a friend or family member, as long as they are not the Medicaid member’s spouse, their designated representative or the parent of a CDPAP consumer under the age of 21…