Home Health & Hospice Week
MFP Expands To 5 New States And Territories
The Biden-Harris administration is pumping more funds into Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded about $25 million in planning grants to five new states and territories to expand access to home and community-based services (HCBS) through MFP, CMS says in a release. “With these awards, 41 states and territories across the country will now participate in MFP,” the release cheers. “We are expanding access to home and community-based services so even more states and territories are equipped to best serve the millions of seniors and people with disabilities across the country,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says in the release. “We’re putting the full weight of this agency behind solutions that can meet people where they are and help get them to where they want to be when it comes to health care,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure says. “Money Follows the Person has a proven track record of helping seniors and people with disabilities transition safely from institutional care to their own homes and communities.” The five new states and territories are Illinois, Kansas, New Hampshire, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico. It’s “the first time MFP grants have been made available to territories,” CMS notes. The grants will fund early phase planning for MFP.
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