Laura
03-26-2009, 05:02 PM
March 24, 2009
Increase Access to CDPAP Call today
Issue: Increase consumer direction in long term care through increased access to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP), including requiring county enrollment targets, ensuring consistency among counties in approved service levels, and implementing a cash & counseling demonstration as part of CDPAP, not as a new program.
Action: Call NYS Assembly and Senate Health Committee Chairs TODAY!
Senator Thomas Duane 518-455-2451
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried 518-455-4941
Leave the following message:
“I'm a registered voter from (your locality) calling to urge you to support increased access to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program by requiring county enrollment targets and statewide consistency in approved service levels, and using the $1 million proposed by the Governor for a new cash & counseling demonstration to expand access to CDPAP.”
Background: This years’ Disability Priority Agenda included as the top health priority to push for increased access to and use of consumer-directed models of service for community-based long term care to generate structural Medicaid savings and ensure people with disabilities of all ages are served in the most integrated setting. People with disabilities want to choose and manage their own services, delivered in their homes. The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) saves state Medicaid dollars because the reimbursement rate for services is nearly 1/3 less than traditional, agency-directed services. Broadening use of the CDPAP program will generate structural Medicaid savings and increase access to services in the most integrated setting. To accomplish this, we have proposed language to amend the CDPAP statute to require county enrollment targets and statewide consistency in approved services levels, and use of the resources the Governor proposed for a new cash & counseling demonstration to assist people to transition to CDPAP.
If you have any questions about this action alert, please contact Lindsay Miller, Advocacy Coordinator at lmiller@ilny.org or call 518-465-4650.
Melanie Shaw
Executive Director
New York Association on Independent Living
One Commerce Plaza
99 Washington Ave., Suite 806A
Albany, NY 12210
Ph. 518-465-4650
FAX 518-465-4625
email mshaw@ilny.org
website www.ilny.org
Increase Access to CDPAP Call today
Issue: Increase consumer direction in long term care through increased access to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP), including requiring county enrollment targets, ensuring consistency among counties in approved service levels, and implementing a cash & counseling demonstration as part of CDPAP, not as a new program.
Action: Call NYS Assembly and Senate Health Committee Chairs TODAY!
Senator Thomas Duane 518-455-2451
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried 518-455-4941
Leave the following message:
“I'm a registered voter from (your locality) calling to urge you to support increased access to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program by requiring county enrollment targets and statewide consistency in approved service levels, and using the $1 million proposed by the Governor for a new cash & counseling demonstration to expand access to CDPAP.”
Background: This years’ Disability Priority Agenda included as the top health priority to push for increased access to and use of consumer-directed models of service for community-based long term care to generate structural Medicaid savings and ensure people with disabilities of all ages are served in the most integrated setting. People with disabilities want to choose and manage their own services, delivered in their homes. The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) saves state Medicaid dollars because the reimbursement rate for services is nearly 1/3 less than traditional, agency-directed services. Broadening use of the CDPAP program will generate structural Medicaid savings and increase access to services in the most integrated setting. To accomplish this, we have proposed language to amend the CDPAP statute to require county enrollment targets and statewide consistency in approved services levels, and use of the resources the Governor proposed for a new cash & counseling demonstration to assist people to transition to CDPAP.
If you have any questions about this action alert, please contact Lindsay Miller, Advocacy Coordinator at lmiller@ilny.org or call 518-465-4650.
Melanie Shaw
Executive Director
New York Association on Independent Living
One Commerce Plaza
99 Washington Ave., Suite 806A
Albany, NY 12210
Ph. 518-465-4650
FAX 518-465-4625
email mshaw@ilny.org
website www.ilny.org