| Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Money Follows the Person (MFP): Updated State Transitions annual report for calendar years 2017 to 2020. The MFP demonstration, established by Congress through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, enables state Medicaid programs to help Medicaid beneficiaries who live in institutions transition into the community, and gives people with disabilities and older adults more choice in deciding where to live and to receive long-term services and supports. From the time transitions began in 2008 to the end of 2020, states had transitioned 107,128 people to community living through MFP. The brief shows how MFP transitions varied by state and target population over time. MFP grantee states are primarily transitioning four targeted populations: older adults;
people with physical disabilities;
people with intellectual or developmental disabilities; and
people with severe mental illness. Learn more here:https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/long-term-services-supports/downloads/mfp-2020-transitions-brief.pdf |
