Trusted Choice Homecare

Who We Are

Trusted Choice Homecare has been operating as a Fiscal Intermediary (FI) for New York State’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services (CDPAS) program since November of 2016. Trusted covers all of New York State, works with most insurance providers, and has direct relationships with local Departments of Social Services. Trusted understands the power of the consumer-directed model as a vehicle that allows our consumers to receive the personal care services they need, while still maintaining their independence. We work with each individual receiving services to ensure they are completely satisfied with the program as a whole.

CDPAP stands for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. This New York State Medicaid program allows chronically ill or physically disabled consumers who need help with everyday activities or skilled nursing to hire their home care assistants. Consumers can choose their caregivers, who may or may not be family members or friends. However, the consumer or his or her representative assumes the responsibility for training, supervising, and terminating the caregivers. The CDPAP may cover services typically provided by a personal care attendant, home health care aide, or a nurse, known as Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services or CDPAS.

The purpose of the CDPA is to help those who have to leave a job to take care of a loved one who is disabled or chronically unwell. For example, an older person who needs daily assistance may be uncomfortable with hiring a stranger to enter the home every day. Some medical tasks, such as giving injections, maybe outside the scope of a personal assistant. The CDPA allows the person to pay an adult child over the age of 21 or another trusted relative to provide care. The caregiver cannot be a spouse, but he or she may live in the home of the person they care for if the level of care required makes that necessary.