Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program (CDPAP): In-home assistance for qualified individuals with a focus on help with activities of daily living, home safety and personal care.
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CDPAP is a New York State Medicaid program that allows consumers to recruit, hire, and direct their own home care workers. The program allows Consumers the flexibility to hire family members and friends to care for them in the Consumer’s own home. The program is designed to provide the Consumer an alternative to an assigned aide by home care servicing agency, and to allow the consumer more choice and flexibility in home care.
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CDPAP is Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program, a New York State Medicaid program that allows patients to recruit, hire, and direct their own home care workers. The program allows the flexibility to hire family members and friends to care for them in their own home. CDPAP is designed to provide an alternative to an assigned aide and to allow more choice and flexibility in home care.
You must have Medicaid or be eligible for Medicaid, require home care, and be self-directing, or have a representative that can direct your care. To be self-directing, one must be capable of making choices regarding one’s activity of daily living and the management of his or her consumer directed personal assistants; understand the impact of these choices; and assumes responsibility for the results of these choices. Additional factors may assist in determining qualifications for CDPAP. Please contact a CDPAP representative at 833.463.5272 to learn more.
For more information regarding our CDPAP program, please call 833.463.5272 to speak to a CDPAP representative.
The program allows the flexibility to hire family members and friends to care for them. The person must be an adult who is not “legally responsible” for a Medicaid consumer’s care and support may be a CDPAP Personal assistant.
Those excluded from being a personal assistant:
However, a parent of an adult child (21 years of age or older) may serve as that adult child’s CDPAP personal assistant.
Individuals train their personal assistants to perform the tasks they need done whether those tasks are medical or not.
A fiscal intermediary acts as the payroll agent for the patient and personal assistant. Elara Caring will be the fiscal intermediary and enter into an agreement with the patient. The agreement will describe each party’s responsibilities under the CDPAP program, including the fiscal intermediary’s responsibilities, which include processing each personal assistant’s wages, processing all income tax and other required wage withholdings and complying with worker’s compensation, disability and unemployment requirements, which include:
