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[Headline] Money Follows the Person By Stephanie Thomas November 1st was the deadline for states to apply for the federal Money Follows the Person Rebalancing initiative. It's our understanding 37 states applied. Grants, totaling $890 million, were awarded to 17 states in January 2007: AR, CA, CT, IA, IN, MD, MI, MO, NE, NH, NY, OH, OK, SC, TX, WA, WI. Twenty one other states have been asked by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, CMS, to clarify how their plan to rebalance long term care with their proposals. CMS is taking the rebalancing part of this initiative very seriously. The Congressional Budget Office (the same office that gave MiCASSA such a lousy cost estimate) estimates 100,000 people will get out. We should celebrate gaining movement toward real choice and community services. Money Follows the Person has the opportunity to being to tear down the walls of the institutional bias. States could see they can give flexibility so people have real choice in where they get their long term care, and it doesn't have to cost more money overall. So what now? Well, there is more we can do make use of the momentum we have going. First of all, if your state didn't apply this is an excellent opportunity for an Olmstead suit. They've had years to get it together and now the Feds have handed them a great tool to give people choice. If they couldn't even be bothered to apply there is real argument that they are not even trying to do what the Supreme Court said. Start identifying people who want out. Challenge your state to get them out. If your state didn’t apply, or did not get a grant, now is the time to actively remind them that you don't have to have this grant to do MFP. There is not any reason they cannot move the money from the nursing home / institution to the community under the current rules and regulations. States can and are doing it with no federal assistance! Targeted Case Management (TCM) is a Medicaid program that can be used to pay for identifying and coordinating services for folks transitioning out of institutions. This is a link to a good article on TCM: http://www.hcbs.org/ files/ 29/ 1440/ targeted-casemanagementSPAO41404.doc As former CMS Administrator said about MFP: "States have NO MORE EXCUSES.” Second, if your state GOT a grant but you aren’t crazy about the whole plan, don't worry. This is round one. MFP is definitely made for a "do it, fix it" approach. Once states are approved they have to do something called a Demonstration Operational Protocol (DOP) Basically, it's a more detailed plan of how the state will use the grant. (Hint: it's also a plan of how they can make MFP an ongoing part of long term care.) They won't get their grant money unless their plan is approved by CMS, and they have 3-12 months to do it in. It has to include all policies, operating procedures and an evaluation plan. CMS is encouraging states to have all the stakeholders (this means you too) to be involved, and section 6071(1) of the Deficit Reduction Act requires it. For more information on the DOP you can go to the CMS website or email: bob.adapt@sbcglobal. Let's celebrate MFP as a real advance in freeing our people. Then let's put it to good use. And of course we must renew the push for MiCASSA: The Community Choice Act.
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[Headline] Catholic Entities Back Bill To Help Disabled Avoid Nursing Homes WASHINGTON (CNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and two other national Catholic organizations have backed proposed federal legislation that would enable many people with disabilities to live in their communities instead of in nursing homes. The legislation would help those with disabilities use Medicaid resources to choose independent living, with reliance on community-based services, over Medicaid-funded institutionalized care. In a joint letter to key House and Senate sponsors of the bill, the heads of the USCCE Committee on Domestic Policy, the Catholic health Association of the United States and the National Catholic Partnership on Disability urged passage of the Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act, known as M3CASSA. "With the services that MiCASSA would make available, more people with disabilities will be able to move from institutional care to lives of independence in their communities," the Catholic leaders said.
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[Flyer with text 'The crime of disability' and a drawing of a person holding onto bars on a window, and with their left foot chained to a ball in the corner. Text on the bottom reads 'If being old and disabled isn't a crime, why are more than three million of us locked up?']
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[Headline] ADAPT Has Victories with Initial HUD eeting By Cassie James After our month long campaign to get HUD Secretary Jackson to live up to his previous commitment to meet with ADAPT regarding the ACCESS ACROSS AMERICA proposal, 15 ADAPT representatives met with HUD Secretary Jackson on Monday May 15, 2006. The feel was positive after the meeting, with Jackson, three of his Assistant Secretaries and several other key HUD staff. The three areas Secretary Jackson agreed to are important steps in moving forward on implementing ACCESS ACROSS AMERICA. Jackson agreed to: 1. Send a Secretary Directive encouraging Housing Authorities to help with Money Follows the Person. 2. Host a meeting with CMS and ADAPT at the table so we can assure we are all on the same page in this goal and moving forward on areas that are in our power to help create this pool of vouchers. 3. Meet with ADAPT three times a year to discuss progress on ACCESS ACROSS AMERICA and other issues such as the modification program that could help modify existing units for people with disabilities. ADAPT Power! If we continue the pressure with congress, HUD, and CMS we can make this happen!
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Tennessee Needs The ... Community Choices Act of 2006 In Tennessee, facilities receive the lion's share of the long-term care budget. Washington, the state next to Tennessee in total population, has state waivers that provide citizens with Home and Community Based Services rather than forcing them into costly institutions. [ADAPT logo] The nursing home industry dominates long-term care funding in Tennessee resulting in poor care to fewer people at a greater public cost. Washington, with a much smaller federal Medicaid match serves over 70 thousand people with its long-term care Medicaid program, most in the community. Tennessee serves fewer than 40 thousand and almost exclusively in expensive and undesirable institutions. www.adapt.org
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group would split up further into teams of four or five to visit all of the congress members on a particular floor. After leaving the hotel, my group marched up Capitol Hill past the House Office buildings, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Capitol to the Hart Senate Office Building. The object of the visits today is to deliver MiCASSA materials to all the Congress members, their offices and staff. MiCASSA, the Community Choice Act, has a long history that goes back before me. I was at the action in Atlanta Georgia in 1996 when Newt Gingrich said he would introduce the bill in the next legislative session. Back when it was introduced, the legislation was called CASA; it has gone through some changes that have made it a much better bill without being watered-down by compromise. MiCASSA is basically the same concept as when it was introduced nearly ten years ago. MiCASSA will be re-introduced in the 2007 legislative session and it will have its strongest support ever. This year it has a streamlined name: MiCASSA - The Community Choice Act, to better describe the main advantage of the bill. The teams delivered copies of the legislation, a press release and the transcript of the Day of Testimony. Six months ago in Nashville, to kick-off our ADAPT action there, people who had lived in nursing homes gave public testimony about their experience living in an institution corn-pared with living in the community. The personal narratives are a compelling argument for MiCASSA. In the evening of the final day, ADAPT celebrates together. This action in particular was one to observe. From the dual hit on Housing Authorities, to the reverberating walls of the Hilton lobby, to the back-to-back success with HUD and the RNC and finally, to the accomplishments of today, this has been a success.
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