The Administration for Community Living (ACL) is offering this grant to address the challenge of quantifying the impact of prevention education, particularly within its Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program. The SMP program empowers Medicare beneficiaries to prevent, detect, and report healthcare fraud through outreach and education. As it’s difficult to measure the effects of prevention, this grant seeks applications to research and identify methodologies for quantifying these efforts, including potential cost savings. Projects should conduct a literature review, determine best measurement practices for healthcare fraud prevention education, and implement a pilot study with SMP grantees to demonstrate developed tools. This cooperative agreement will be funded at $200,000 per year for a three-year period.
Opportunity ID: 235441
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | HHS-2013-ACL-AOA-SH0-0059 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Measuring the Value of Prevention within the SMP Program |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Income Security and Social Services |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 93.048 — Special Programs for the Aging_Title IV_and Title II_Discretionary Projects |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 23, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 08, 2013 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 08, 2013 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date. |
| Archive Date: | Aug 07, 2013 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $200,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $225,000 |
| Award Floor: | $75,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Faith-based and community organizations that meet eligibility requirements are eligible to receive awards under this funding opportunity announcement. Individuals, foreign entities, and sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible to compete for, or receive, awards made under this announcement. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Administration for Community Living |
| Description: | Educating consumers to prevent health care fraud is the essence of the mission and message of the Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program. The SMP mission is to empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education. The 54 SMP projects recruit and train volunteers to educate Medicare beneficiaries about how to protect their Medicare numbers, examine their Medicare Summary Notices to detect discrepancies, and report suspicious activity when detected. The SMP program seeks to empower seniors through increased awareness and understanding of health care programs to protect them from the economic and health-related consequences associated with Medicare fraud, error, and abuse. The SMP program, like many other federal, state, and local programs, must estimate the benefits that the program provides. However, since there is not currently a way to quantify the effects of prevention education, measuring the impact of the SMP program on the extent and cost of fraud and abuse is difficult. For that reason, with this Funding Opportunity Announcement, ACL seeks applications that will describe how to best conduct research on prevention education, such as that conducted by the SMP program, to determine how to best measure and quantify the effects of these efforts. This research may include, but is not limited to, identification of methodologies for measuring cost savings or avoidance associated with SMP’s fraud prevention efforts. Specifically, ACL is interested in reviewing and supporting applications that will describe how the applicant will: · Conduct a literature review of methods to quantify the effects of community education on prevention to identify an appropriate methodology for measuring these efforts in general and within the SMP context; ACL plans to fund one (1) cooperative agreement at the federal funding level of $200,000 per year, over a three (3) year project period, pending availability of federal funds. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://acl.gov/Funding_Opportunities/Announcements/Index.aspx |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Rebecca Kinney
Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov Email:Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 235441 Full Announcement-1 -> work plan template.pdf
Folder 235441 Full Announcement-1 -> instructions for completing project summary abstract.pdf
Folder 235441 Full Announcement-1 -> appendix a – smp logic model.pdf
Folder 235441 Full Announcement-1 -> hhs-2013-acl-aoa-sh0-0059.pdf
Folder 235441 Full Announcement-1 -> budget justification sample template & instructions.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Rebecca Kinney Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov Email: Rebecca.Kinney@acl.hhs.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93.048 | HHS-2013-ACL-AOA-SH0-0059 | Measuring the Value of Prevention within the SMP Program | PKG00178556 | May 23, 2013 | Jul 08, 2013 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
235441 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
235441 Other-1.1.pdf
235441 SF424A-1.0.pdf
235441 SF424B-1.1.pdf
235441 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
235441 Project-1.1.pdf
235441 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
235441 FaithBased_SurveyOnEEO-1.2.pdf
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