New York’s 2025 Budget Makes Big Changes To The State’s Consumer-Directed Program

Last month, the New York state budget for 2025 passed. It will bring on sweeping changes for home care stakeholders and recipients in the state. The most notable change the budget makes to CDPAP is that it will designate one statewide fiscal intermediary to oversee the program. There are also many questions about how having one statewide FI would work in practice. Aside from changes to CDPAP, the budget included a minimum wage increase for home care workers, and Medicaid rate increases for hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living communities.