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Welcome to Virginia’s Money Follows the Person Website!
Virginia is one of 31 states participating in a five-year, $1.75 billion Money Follows the Person (“MFP”) Demonstration project designed to create a system of long-term services and supports that better enable individuals to transition from certain long-term care institutions into the community. This project supports Virginia’s Olmstead initiative and complements the efforts of the recently awarded Systems Transformation Grant that aims to improve the infrastructure for community-based long-term supports. Virginia’s MFP project, administered by the Department of Medical Assistance Services, will make over $28 million in federal Medicaid funds available to support Virginia’s seniors and individuals with disabilities.
The “MFP” project is scheduled to begin Summer 2008. Currently, several agencies and stakeholders are developing an “Operational Protocol” that will serve as Virginia’s program manual or Guidebook for the project. This Guidebook will be submitted to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval before transitions to the community can begin under the project. Once the Guidebook is approved, you will be able to access it here.
Virginia’s MFP project will permanently add services and supports to select home and community-based Medicaid waivers. The following chart illustrates the waiver services that will be added as a result of the MFP Demonstration Project:
| Waiver | Waiver Service to be Added |
|---|---|
| Elderly and Disabled with Consumer Direction (EDCD) | Environmental Modifications Assistive Technology Transition Coordination Transition Services |
| HIV/AIDS (AIDS) | Environmental Modifications Assistive Technology Transition Services |
| Technology Assisted (TECH) | Personal Emergency Response System Transitional Services |
| Individual and Family Developmental Disabilities Supports (DD) | Consumer- Directed Supported Employment Transition Services |
| Mental Retardation (MR) | Consumer- Directed Supported Employment Transition Services |
| Day Support | Consumer- Directed Supported Employment |
Transition services, transition coordinators, and consumer-directed supported employment are new services.
- Transition services are for up-front household expenses for people moving from a provider-operated living arrangement to a private residence.
- Transition coordinators assist in moving individuals out of institutions.
- Consumer-Directed Supported Employment provides a consumer-directed option for individual supported employment services.
Individuals who choose to participate in the MFP project may also be able to access:
- Supplemental funds for home modifications that exceed $5,000; and
- Temporary rental payments while home modifications are being completed.
To participate in the MFP project, you must:
- Have lived for at least six (6) months in a nursing facility, an intermediate care facility for individuals with mental retardation, or a long-stay hospital licensed in Virginia; and
- Plan to move to a “qualified residence.” A qualified residence is: 1) a home that you or your family member owns or leases; 2) an apartment with an individual lease, with lockable access and egress, that includes living, sleeping, bathing and cooking areas over which you or your family has domain and control; or 3) a residence in a community-based residential setting in which no more than four (4) unrelated individuals reside.
Please check this site frequently for updates!
