Situation Report | November 22, 2021
The state Department of Health (DOH) posted a webinar recording and slides on the recent changes to Personal Care Services (PCS) and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services (CDPAS). The webinar can be found here under the “Long Term Care” tab.
As discussed in the November 8 Situation Report, some changes that became effective on November 8 include the following:
- Clarifies DOH policy that supervision and cueing may be provided as a means of assisting an individual to perform nutritional and environmental support functions or personal care functions, but are not a standalone personal care service, and may not be authorized, paid for, or reimbursed.
- Allows Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician’s Assistants (PAs) to complete and sign the practitioner order for PCS and CDPAS. HCA is trying to obtain written documentation that this change also applies to home health services.
- Allows services to be authorized for up to 12 months.
- Eliminates requirement that consumers who are receiving home care services be annually notified about the availability of CDPAS.
- Requires consumer designated representatives to make themselves available to ensure that they can carry out the consumer responsibilities and must be present at scheduled assessments or visits for non-self-directing consumers.
- Prohibits the authorization of services provided through more than one fiscal intermediary per consumer and prohibit consumers from working with more than one fiscal intermediary at a time.
Any questions on the presentation should be directed to: independent.assessor@health.ny.gov.