A federal judge has provided more time for consumers and workers to enroll in a key Medicaid-funded home caregiver program in New York, as Department of Justice officials raised concerns about the ...

Thousands of New Yorkers with disabilities had been struggling to meet the April 1 deadline for enrolling in the CDPAP caregiver program, which was being overhauled amid waste and fraud concerns. New ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has announced significant progress with the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) transition to a new fiscal intermediary, ...

Some 280,000 New Yorkers use the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. A fraction have been able to sign up with the state's chosen provider.

A CDPAP industry followed, with over 600 middleman home care agencies flooding the new market, and program participation expanded from 20,000 to 250,000. But instead of the state administering the ...

Carolyn Gusoff has covered some of the most high profile news stories in the New York City area and is best known as a trusted, tenacious, consistent and caring voice of Long Island's concerns. New ...

NY's Department of Health asked for employee help, even as the agency has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with a private vendor for the same work. New York Department of Health Commissioner Dr.

Taking advantage of a generous New York state program to aid his ailing mother, Ballal Hossain signed up a dozen family members to work as her caregivers. Over six years, they were paid $348,000 to ...

CDPAP users now have until May 15 to enroll in the Medicaid-funded caregiver program under a court agreement struck in an ongoing federal lawsuit challenging the state's overhaul of the program. State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Yorkers with disabilities and the people who support them fear that they could be left out of a key Medicaid-funded caregiver ...