| The Benefits of CDPAP : An Alternative Medicaid Home Care Program |
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| Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:16 |
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The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) is an alternative to traditional Medicaid home care. It allows the Medicaid recipient or another responsible person to hire an aide who is independent of any home healthcare agency. Medicaid then pays the aide based on the hours of care it authorizes. CDPAP is a wonderful program for the Medicaid beneficiary at home who desires to select his or her own aide, perhaps retaining a longtime aide that has previously been paid privately. Pursuant to a recent addition to CDPAP regulations, certain relatives may now serve as the aide. The new regulation states: “A consumer’s spouse, parent or designated representative may not be the consumer directed personal assistant for that consumer; however, a consumer directed personal assistant may include any other adult relative of the consumer who does not reside with the consumer or any other adult relative who resides with the consumer because the amount of care the consumer requires makes such relative’s presence necessary.” |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 10:23 |
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