The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 31 grants to States to participate
in the Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration (MFP)
from January 1, 2007 through September 30, 2011. This
demonstration, created by section 6071 of the Deficit Reduction Act
of 2005 (P.L. 109-171), supports State efforts to "rebalance" their
long-term support systems by offering $1.75 billion over 5 years in
competitive grants to States. Specifically, the demonstration will
support State efforts to: a) Rebalance their long-term support
system so that individuals have a choice of where they live and
receive services; b) Transition individuals from institutions who
want to live in the community; and c) Promote a strategic approach
to implement a system that provides person centered, appropriate,
needs based, quality of care and quality of life services and a
quality management strategy that ensures the provision of, and
improvement of such services in both home and community-based
settings and institutions. The demonstration provides enhanced
federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for 12 months for
qualified home and community-based services for each person
transitioned from an institution to the community during the
demonstration period.
There have not been any program
changes. All requirements, forms, instructions, respondent response
times and response frequency, etc. are unchanged from the 2008 PRA
package. As of March 2011, CMS had awarded 44 MFP grants. In 2012,
CMS will award 3 MFP Grants, thus, the burden estimates are for 46
states and the District of Columbia (44 current Grantees and 3
being awarded in 2012 for a total of 47 MFP Demonstration
Grantees). This package also adjusts our burden estimates by adding
burden associated with the Quality of Life File questionnaire.
Although the questionnaire was included in the 2008 PRA package,
the burden estimates were inadvertently missing.
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