CDPAP Recommendations: A beginner's Guide at FAFHHC

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A Beginners Guide to CDPAP Recommendations
Finding the Right Service
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Do you or a loved one need in-home health care
services? Are you uncomfortable with the thought
of a stranger coming into your home to give you
the care you need? CDPAP could be the answer.
The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program
(CDPAP) lets you choose a relative or friend to
be your caregiver.
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Benefits of CDPAP
CDPAP has many advantages for participants.
Someone receiving care under CDPAP is a
consumer, not a client or patient. This is
because the program emphasizes the consumers
role in planning and implementing their own care.
One major benefit of CDPAP is that a family
member or friend can be your caregiver. You dont
have to let a stranger into your home or have
someone you dont know perform intimate tasks for
you. You get the same caregiver every day.
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ELIGIBILITY FOR CDPAP

• To participate in CDPAP as a consumer, you must
  meet these requirements
• Be a New York state resident
• Be on Medicaid with coverage for community-based
  long-term services
• Require home care
• Have a stable medical condition

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New York State Medicaid is phasing in new
criteria for CDPAP. Consumers will need to show
that they need help with at least three
activities of daily living. Consumers with
dementia or Alzheimers disease only have to
demonstrate the need for help with at least two
daily living activities. The nurse assessor will
develop a plan of care in collaboration with you.
This plan of care determines what your personal
assistant has the authorization to do.
MEDICAL ELIGIBILITY
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Who Can Be a Personal Assistant under CDPAP?
Almost anyone can serve as a personal assistant
under CDPAP. Caregivers must be at least 18 years
old. The only people who arent eligible to be a
personal assistant are

• The consumers spouse
• The consumers parent, if the consumer is younger
  than 21 years old
• The consumers designated representative

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How Your Personal Assistant Can Help You
Your CDPAP personal assistant can help you with a
variety of tasks. However, all services the
caregiver provides must follow your plan of care.

• Checking vital signs like pulse and blood
  pressure
• Administering oxygen
• Giving insulin injections
• Changing sterile wound dressings for injuries
• Applying topical treatments
• Monitoring special diets

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Your personal assistant will be an independent
contractor for a fiscal intermediary. The
fiscal intermediary is usually a licensed home
care services agency. This agency processes
paychecks and serves as the middleman between you
or your designated representative and Medicaid.
CDPAP RECOMMENDATIONS
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