Home Care Workers & Consumers Demand Answers on $11Billion CDPAP Contract As Program Collapses From PE Control

NEW YORK, NY (03/02/2026) (readMedia)-- On Tuesday, home care workers, consumers, and lawmakers are holding a press conference at the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York (CIDNY) to demand transparency and public accountability into the state's $11 billion contract with Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), the company that now administers the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP.) CDPAP is the Medicaid program that serves older and disabled New Yorkers in need of home care. One year into the $11 billion transition to a private equity-backed Statewide Fiscal Intermediary (SFI), as many as 150,000 workers and 90,000 consumers have fled the program due to PPL's payment failures, most switching to more expensive traditional home care.

CDPAP is a lifeline for New Yorkers in need of home care, and provides hundreds of thousands of caregiving jobs. But basic information about what has happened to the money paid to PPL to operate this critical program remains hidden from lawmakers and the public. Governor Kathy Hochul continues to claim that the new system saved New York $1.2 billion dollars, but no details have been provided to back this claim. New Yorkers have no clear picture of how Medicaid dollars meant to provide care are being spent, or whether the switch to PPL is actually saving money while delivering adequate care to hundreds of thousands of older and disabled New Yorkers. Home care workers, recipients, and advocates are urging Albany lawmakers to include legislation in the budget sponsored by Sen. Leroy Comrie and AM Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas that would require regular public reporting on how CDPAP dollars are spent, implementing common sense oversight to protect both essential services and public dollars.