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- Title
Money Follows the Person: Un-burning Bridges and Facilitating a Return to the Community.
- Authors
Reinhard, Susan C.
- Abstract
In about 2003, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched a large demonstration called Money Follows the Person (MFP) to test incentives for states to move Medicaid clientele out of nursing homes in a randomized trial. The idea was that the first year after discharge from the nursing home, states could use the money (up to the amount a nursing home would have cost) for services in the community and the waiting lists for community care would not be reduced. Though this demo is still in place, lessons are already being learned from it. As brief background, the article describes other nursing facility transitions programs that preceded MFP. It also outlines the lessons learned so far in helping older people leave nursing homes-even those who had been in nursing homes for many years.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT aid; COST control; ENDOWMENTS; MANAGED care programs; MEDICAID; NURSING home patients; ORGANIZATIONAL change; PEOPLE with disabilities; QUALITY assurance; STATE governments; PILOT projects; ELIGIBILITY (Social aspects); HOME environment; SENIOR housing; INDEPENDENT living; TRANSITIONAL programs (Education); PATIENT Protection &; Affordable Care Act
- Publication
Generations, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
0738-7806
- Publication type
Article