Senior Medicare Patrol Projects

For programmatic or technical questions:
Rebecca Kinney
202.795.7475
rebecca.kinney@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:

• State governments
• County, city, or township governments
• Special district governments
• Public, state controlled, and private institutions of higher education
• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
• Tribal organizations
• Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
• Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
• Independent school districts
• Public housing authorities
• Indian housing authorities
• For-profit organizations and small businesses

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; the population of rural Medicare beneficiaries in each state/territory; and the population of Medicare beneficiaries with limited income in each state/territory, which is listed on page 3 of the application instructions.

Links to the full announcement and online application procedures are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab.