Connecticut ‘Money Follows the Person’ Program Helped 86% Of Participants Avoid Reinstitutionalization One Year After Transition

About 86% of the 2,262 people who participated in Connecticut's Money Follows the Person (MFP) program between 2008 and 2014 remained in the community during the year after transition from an institutional setting. Only 14% were reinstitutionalized. Factors that led to reinstitutionalization were mental health disability, difficulties with family members before transition, and not exercising choice and control in daily life.

The MFP program serves Medicaid beneficiaries over age 65, younger beneficiaries with physical disabilities, beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and beneficiaries with mental illness who are long-term residents of hospitals, nursing homes, an intermediate care . . .