This afternoon, the New York State Department of Health released attestation forms and supporting information forms for fiscal intermediaries that had applied for the CDPAP RFO but which had not previously been selected as lead fiscal intermediaries. As home care insiders will recall, there was a first round of CDPAP RFO awardees (68 agencies in total) announced by New York State Department of Health in February 2021. However, due to subsequent changes in the law, the Department re-opened the RFO to additional fiscal intermediaries that had applied for the RFO but did not “win” an award in the first round. This “second” round of RFO contracts is intended for fiscal intermediaries that met certain patient census requirements during the first quarter of 2020. Today’s forms were issued in furtherance of this second round of awardees, to invite them to submit information to New York State and demonstrate that they meet the patient census requirements that are necessary to receive a lead fiscal intermediary RFO award.
As we had reported previously, based on the changes made in the law, fiscal intermediaries that actually applied and that were not awarded by the New York State Department of Health within the first round of awards, are still eligible to receive a lead contract with New York State. To be clear, this second round of potential awards does not apply to any fiscal intermediary that did not apply for a RFO in 2020. Thus, entities who wish to become a fiscal intermediary now or that somehow began providing FI services since the RFO was submitted in March 2020 cannot utilize this process to become a lead fiscal intermediary.
For the entities that did apply in 2020, but were not yet notified officially by the Department that they are a lead fiscal intermediary, such entities can still qualify as a lead fiscal intermediary if they can demonstrate that they had 200 or more consumers being serviced during the period of January 1, 2020 through March 31, 2020 in any or all of New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, and Richmond counties. In the alternative, a fiscal intermediary could be awarded a contract as a lead if it demonstrates that it serviced 50 or more consumers in any other county of New York State during the same applicable Q1 2020 period.
The Department has issued a one-page attestation form for this “second slate” of fiscal intermediary applicants to complete, alongside with a template “attestation supporting information spreadsheet,” which also has to be completed. The supporting documentation must provide sufficient evidence to confirm that the fiscal intermediary indeed was serving the requisite number of consumers, on the requisite dates, and in the requisite counties, otherwise the entity will not qualify to receive the lead fiscal intermediary award from New York State.
The deadline to submit the attestation and supporting documentation is November 29, 2022. The State has also announced that the anticipated contract award date for all the lead fiscal intermediaries (inclusive of first and second “slate” awardees) is now January 15, 2023. After the lead contracts are awarded by the State, the non-lead fiscal intermediaries will be required to begin transitioning consumers to lead fiscal intermediaries.
If you have any questions about the CDPAP RFO process, please let us know.