ROCHESTER, N.Y. — CDPAP enrollees, home care workers and advocates criticized the healthcare plan offered by Public Partnerships, LLC, also known as PPL, on Wednesday.
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It was a cold Thursday in February, even with a warm sun blazing through Western New York’s arctic skies. In Buffalo, you take what you can get. But like warm weather in winter, what you get often isn’t enough...Such is the story for home care workers and consumers in Western New York.
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In the last few weeks, new information has come to light regarding New York State’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, as many consumers continue their advocacy against the company running the program.
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A health insurer offering shoddy coverage to low-wage workers at taxpayer expense will be replaced next year. But will what comes next be any better?
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Home care advocates warn that requiring the use of E-Verify, the federal employment verification program, could incorrectly bar immigrant workers from the industry and disrupt New York's CDPAP program.
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On Wednesday afternoon, New Yorkers who are enrolled in a Medicaid-funded home care program rallied outside the State Capitol calling on the Hochul administration to extend an Oct. 1 deadline for their caregivers to complete required paperwork.
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Public Partnerships set an Oct. 1 deadline for personal assistants, but workers say they found out about the requirement too late.
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Thousands of home care workers statewide have an Oct. 1 deadline to be recertified, but many are scrambling to complete a required physical exam in time.
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