Senior Medicare Patrol Projects
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Application: Apr 16, 2018
For programmatic or technical
questions:
Stacey Platte
202.795.7420
Stacey.Platte@acl.hhs.gov
For grants management or budget
questions:
Sean Lewis
202.795.7384
Sean.Lewis@acl.hhs.gov
The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Projects program offers funding to provide local outreach, education, and assistance to Medicare beneficiaries through a volunteer workforce that is trained to empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report health care fraud, errors, and abuse.
SMP projects should:
- Teach Medicare beneficiaries to protect their Medicare numbers
- Teach beneficiaries to detect billing discrepancies on their quarterly Medicare Summary Notice statements
- Teach how to report suspicious activity for further investigation
- Actively disseminate fraud prevention and identification information through the media, outreach campaigns, and community events
Eligible applicants are public or private nonprofit entities including:
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public, state controlled, and private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized and other than federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
Funding is expected to be for 5-one year budget periods with the breakdown:
- Up to $230,000 per budget period for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
- Up to $95,000 per budget period for Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Additional funding will be allocated to successful applicants based on the total Medicare beneficiary population in each state/territory and the population of rural Medicare beneficiaries in each state/territory, which is listed on page 11 of the application instructions.
Links to the full announcement and online application procedures are available through grants.gov.
Applicants are requested, but not required, to submit a letter of intent through email to Stacey Platte by February 26, 2018.
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- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, view details
- Administration for Community Living, view details
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