1. A. The Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration is a federal demonstration program awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the department. The demonstration is a transition program that targets individuals using qualified institutional services and moves them to home and community-based long-term care services. The MFP rebalancing demonstration will stop allocation of opportunities when the demonstration expires.

   1. 1. For purposes of these provisions, a qualified institution is a hospital, nursing facility, or intermediate care facility for people with developmental disabilities.

2. B. Individuals must meet the following criteria for participation in the MFP Rebalancing demonstration.

   1. 1. Individuals with a developmental disability must:

      1. a. be from birth through 20 years of age;
      2. b. occupy a licensed, approved and enrolled Medicaid nursing facility bed for at least 60 days or have been hospitalized in an acute care hospital for 60 days with referral for nursing facility placement; and
      3. c. be Medicaid eligible, eligible for state developmental disability services and meet ICF/DD level of care.
   2. 2. The participant or his/her authorized representative must provide informed consent for both transition and participation in the demonstration.
3. C. Individuals who participate in the demonstration are not required to have a protected request date on the registry.
4. D. Children’s choice waiver opportunities created using the MFP methodology do not create a permanent funding shift. These opportunities shall be funded on an individual basis for the purpose of this demonstration program only.
5. E. All other children’s choice waiver provisions apply to the money follows the person rebalancing demonstration.

Authority Note

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 36:254 and Title XIX of the Social Security Act.

Historical Note

HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Bureau of Health Services Financing and the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, LR 35:1892 (September 2009), amended by Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing and the Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, LR 43:2524 (December 2017), amended by the Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing, and the Office for the Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, LR 48:1543 (June 2022).