Nassau County Judge Jerome C. Murphy issued a temporary
restraining order (TRO) on Jan. 27, 2025, preventing the New York
State Department of Health (DOH) from moving forward with the
consolidation of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program
(CDPAP), which is already underway and intended to be completed by
April 1, 2025.
Pursuant to the CDPAP amendments Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into
law in April 2024, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), a Georgia-based
company, is to be the state's single fiscal intermediary (FI)
to manage the wages and benefits of personal assistants who work
with chronically ill or physically disabled Medicaid beneficiaries.
The move to a single FI would displace the nearly 700 middlemen
currently serving approximately 246,000 consumers across the state.
As part of the transition, existing FIs were required to transfer
data related to their consumers by Jan. 15, 2025. The TRO halts
this process until is hearing is held to determine whether
