Transitioning Medicaid Enrollees from Institutions to the Community: Number of People Eligible and Number of Transitions Targeted Under MFP, Number 1, January 2009.

摘要

The Money Follows the Person (MFP) Demonstration is the most ambitious program to date aimed at helping Medicaid enrollees transition from institutions to the community. Over a five year period, 30 grantee states and the District of Columbia plan to provide transition services to approximately 36,000 people who have been institutionalized for six months or more in nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded. The MFP program targets only 0.9 percent of the approximately one million people who could be eligible each year. However, the program has the potential to increase the rate of transition for people in long-term institutional care in the grantee states by 15 to 40 percent annually. The extent to which the program increases transition rates will depend on grantees ability to implement their programs, whether they target people who would not transition without assistance, and whether they can overcome barriers to moving high-need individuals into the community.