[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 54 (Thursday, March 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 15594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06109]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
Expansion and Capacity Building Funding: Senior Medicare Patrol
Program Project Grants
ACTION: Notice of intent to provide expansion and capacity building
funding to the incumbent Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) grantees under
limited competition.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living is announcing the
application deadline and a single case deviation from maximum
competition for the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) Program project
grants. The SMP program has 54 SMP project grants which are currently
awarded on two different three-year cycles with 26 awarded in one year
and the other 28 awarded the following year. The purpose of this
deviation is to award a 4th year non-competing continuation to the 26
SMP project grantees with a three (3) year budget period set to expire
May 31, 2014 so that all 54 SMP project grants can be moved to the same
competitive three (3) year cycle beginning in FY 2015.
Program Name: Senior Medicare Patrol.
Award Amount: $4,373,902 ($168,277 per grantee).
Project Period: 6/1/2011 to 5/31/2015.
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement.
Statutory Authority: Title IV and Title II of the Older
Americans Act (42 U.S.C. 3032), as amended by the Older Americans
Act Amendments of 2006 Public Law 109-365 and HIPAA of 1996 (Pub. L.
104-191)
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.048
Discretionary Projects
DATES:
Application Submission deadline: April 21, 2014.
The anticipated budget period start date is June 1, 2014.
I. Program Description
The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) program is a national program
providing cooperative agreements to grantees in every state, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to
help Medicare beneficiaries detect, prevent and report potential health
care fraud, error and abuse. In doing so, they not only protect
beneficiaries, they also help preserve the integrity of the Medicare
program. Because this work often requires face-to-face contact to be
most effective, SMPs nationwide recruit, train, and manage over 5,100
volunteers every year to help in this effort. The focus of the SMP
program is providing beneficiary education to prevent the fraud before
it ever occurs.
Justification for the Exception to Competition
Historically, the 54 SMP project grants have been awarded using two
different three-year cycles with 26 awarded in one year and the other
28 awarded the following year. This was originally done to alleviate
the administrative burden of awarding 54 new grants at one time.
However, the SMP program has gone through a number of changes since its
inception, as has the ACL. Given these changes the split award of the
SMP project grants has become an administrative burden in itself by
necessitating twice the effort to prepare and award the grants. Moving
the 54 SMP grants to the same grant cycle will allow the program to
move forward as one instead of two separate steps as needed with the
current split grant cycle. Failure to move forward with this deviation
would disrupt ACL's ability to improve and advance the SMP program as
one cohesive and consistent program nationally.
II. Eligible Applicants
Incumbent Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) grantees with award
expiration dates of 5/31/14.
III. Evaluation Criteria
Information previously provided in semi-annual reports, as well as
information in the non-competing extension application will be
considered to determine satisfactory progress of the grantee project
and ensure that proposed activities are within the approved scope and
budget of the grant. Areas that will be evaluated include:
A. Project Relevance & Current Need
B. Approach
C. Budget
D. Project Impact
E. Organizational Capacity
IV. Application and Submission Requirments
A. SF 424--Application for Federal Assistance
B. SF 424A--Budget Information
C. Separate Budget Narrative/Justification
D. SF 424B--Assurances. Note: Be sure to complete this form according
to instructions and have it signed and dated by the authorized
representative (see item 18d of the SF 424).
E. Lobbying Certification
F. Program narrative--no more than 10 pages.
G. Work Plan
H. Grantees will be required to access the non-competing application
kit in GrantSolutions.gov to submit all materials for this application.
V. Application Review Information
Applications will be objectively reviewed by Federal staff
utilizing the criteria listed above in Section III.
VI. Agency Contact
For further information or comments regarding this program
expansion supplement, contact Rebecca Kinney, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, Administration
on Aging, Office of Elder Rights, One Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20001; telephone (202) 357-3520; fax (202) 357-3560;
email [email protected].
Dated: March 14, 2014.
Kathy Greenlee,
Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 2014-06109 Filed 3-19-14; 8:45 am]
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