Hey, are you concerned about your health and you don’t know whom to hire to take care of yourself? Then you are in the right place. We promise to provide you best CDPAP of your choice to help you get better.
CDPAP “Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program” An initiated started by New York State Medicaid. The purpose of CDPAP is to assist the consumer or patient to choose his health care worker. A patient or a consumer has a free hand to choose his or her caregiver, that may be his or her family member or relatives.
The clients get peace of mind by hiring their family members to take care of them. Apart from this, you get paid for your work. All you need to do is to take care of your mother/father/uncle/aunt or any of your family members with love.
We are here to provide you best caretakers. Besides, we will help you and your family members through the whole process, and we are gonna provide you with proper training.
If you are feeling alone as a patient, then no worries you can hire any random person for you to get treated.
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Who are Caregivers?
Well, it’s a good question and a point to be noticed. Caregivers are those persons who help you with your daily activities. Caregivers are supposed to provide you with proper care including the following:
- Transportation to the hospitals
- Get yourself dressed up
- The caregiver will purchase medicine for you
- Is responsible to monitor your medical conditions
- He/She Will help you in getting in and out of chairs and beds
- Prepare healthy and Nutritious food for you
- He/She will prepare your clothes
- Your caregiver is responsible to help you in taking bath and shower
- Housework
- Buying groceries and other necessary items
A thing to be considered is that there is no restriction to be a caregiver. All you need to do is to manage all these above-mentioned points and yeah, you are a caregiver.
You do not need to have a license or certification to become a caregiver.
What are the advantages of CDPAP?
While discussing all the related questions you need to know why you need a CDPAP. Yes, this is the most important question to be considered.
You are given a free hand and you can order your caregiver for anything. If you choose CDPAP then there is no such restriction to staying at the hospital for days.
Well, if you are feeling alone at your home and you can’t take care of yourself then it’s a better option to hire a caregiver by CDPAP. Your Caregiver will stay the whole day with you even if you go for a walk, you can take him/her with you. He is the person who is responsible to listen to you whenever you need him.
CDPA program helps the family members to know about their patients by telling them about their behavioral changes. The caregiver will observe different stages in the behavior of a patient like sadness, happiness, depression, confusion, or memory loss.
Things to be considered to hire a CDPAP
Here are some points mentioned for you guys to be considered when you are hiring a CDPAP.
- The first and foremost thing you should keep in view is to be Medicaid first
- You will only be entertained when you are seriously in need of a caregiver
- You need to mention your health situation while filling the form
- If you are self-sufficient or you have a representative or a person to direct your supervision
Congratulations, you are now eligible for the Consumer directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).
To get approved for CDPAP
The most important question that comes to your mind while choosing a Care Directed Personal Assistance Program is “what things to do for the approval”. All you need is a prescription or a doctor’s note, send it to us and our experts will go through it, if the patient really needs assistance, then your application is approved.
On the condition that you don’t have Medicaid, then we will be offering you a free Medical Support Service. This service will be provided to only those clients or patients who need personal assistance.
In case you don’t have Medicaid and you need Personal Assistance then we will hire a medical specialist keeping in view your ailment. The specialist will examine you and will decide whether you need CDPAP or not. The Medicaid specialist will decide the plan for your health care services.
Moreover, our Medicaid specialist will decide the frequency, duration, and amount of the service.
Last but not least to get approval, the family members or relatives who want to be the caregivers require to get authorization first then they will get paid for their assistance. The payment will be on weekly basis and the caregiver will get paid for his services.
Filling the CDPAP form to check the eligibility for CDPAP
Our CDPAP form contains three portions:
- Patient Information
- Patient Insurance Information
- Caregiver/Aid Information
All you need here is to click the form and fill in the above-asked information in the required option.
Here is a step-by-step guide for you to fill out the CDPAP form.
In the first column of patient information of the CDPAP form, you need to add your first and last name separately on the said box. Choose your gender (male/female). Add your phone number and email address along with your residential address. In the address column write your street address and in the second box write down your apartment or suit. Write your city name and in the second box write your state or province. In the last box of patient information write the postal or zip code of your area. Search on the internet if you don’t know your postal or zip code.
In the Patient’s Insurance Information, fill the box with the Medicaid Client’s SSN or Id Number. Choose the birth date of the patient and write in detail the health situation a patient is feeling. This is all you need while filling in the Insurance information of a patient.
The last thing to be mentioned is in the caregiver information. Write the first and last name of the caregiver, and your relationship with him. Email address and phone number of the caregiver.
At last, agree with all the terms and conditions and privacy policies of our page. Submit and check eligibility.
Congratulations, you are done.