Specifications include, but are not limited to: a) Processing wages and benefits for each personal assistant (PA), including establishing the amount of each PA’s wages; b) Processing all applicable income tax and other required wage withholdings including Social Security and federal, state, local income taxes; c) Complying with worker’s compensation, disability and unemployment requirements; d) Ensuring the health status of each PA is assessed prior to service delivery pursuant to 10 NYCRR § 766.11(c) and (d) or any successor regulation; e) Maintaining personnel records for each PA, including time records and other documentation needed for wages and benefit processing and a copy of the medical documentation required above by 4.1(b), as well as documentation, where applicable, of completed background checks and completed training requirements; f) Maintaining records for each consumer including copies of Local Departments of Social Services’ (LDSS’) or Managed Care Organization’s (MCO’s) service authorizations or reauthorizations; g) Monitoring the consumer’s (or if applicable, the consumer's designated representative’s) continuing ability to fulfill the consumer's responsibilities under CDPAP and promptly notifying the authorizing entity (i.e., the LDSS or MCO) of any circumstance that may affect the consumer’s (or if applicable, the consumer's designated representative’s) ability to fulfill those responsibilities; h) Entering into PA reimbursement agreements with MCOs for the provision of services; i) Entering into a Department approved memoranda of understanding with Consumers that describes the parties' (Consumer, FI and LDSS or MCO as appropriate) responsibilities under CDPAP; and j) Any additional services required to be performed pursuant to regulations established by the Commissioner of Health specifying the responsibilities of FIs providing services under this title.
