DAY SIXTY-SIX: Tennessee ADAPT demands Frist support MiCASSA and Money Follows the Person.

Senator Frist, We Demand Freedom!

Currently Medicaid leaves the decision how states provide long term care up to each individual state. Unfortunately that allows states, like Tennessee, to choose the most expensive and least wanted form of long term care, nursing homes. In Tennessee there are 6,458 individuals who have expressed they want out of the nursing home. Tennessee spends $898 million a year in nursing home expenditures. Tennessee only spends $6 million for home and community based services

There is another option, Senate Bill 401, or known by many as MiCASSA. MiCASSA would change the federal Medicaid rules so that states would provide choices to people of how and WHERE they would receive the services they need. 

ADAPT of Tennessee and others have continually asked Senator Frist to co-sponsor MiCASSA or at least have a meeting to discuss the importance of this bill to the people it affects. That is why Tennessee ADAPT is at Senator Frist's office today.

1. To request Senator Frist to sign a statement that he agrees to co-sponsor MiCASSA, S. 401
   
   OR
   
2. To meet with us to discuss the merits of the bill.

Support the action in Memphis

Call Senator Frist’s offices TODAY!
Ask Senator Frist to co-sponsor 

MiCASSA Senate Bill 401

AND

Federal Money Follows the Person Senate Bill 528

Washington Office:
SH-509
Washington, D.C. 20510-4205
Phone: (202) 224-3344
Fax: (202) 228-1264

Main District Office:
28 White Bridge Rd., #211
Nashville, TN 37205
Phone: (615) 352-9411
Fax: (615) 352-9985

Memphis
Phone: (901) 683-1910
Fax: (901) 683-3610

Address:
5100 Poplar Ave. #514
Memphis, TN 38137

Knoxville
Phone: (865) 637-4180
Fax: (865) 637-9886

Address:
800 Market St., Ste. 121
Knoxville, TN 37902

Chattanooga
Phone: (423) 756-2757
Fax: (423) 756-5313

Address:
735 Broad St., Ste. 701
Chattanooga, TN 37402

Jackson
Phone: (731) 424-9655
Fax: (731) 424-8322

Address:
200 East Main St., Ste. 111
Jackson, TN 38301

Kingsport
Phone: (423) 323-1252
Fax: (423) 323-0358

Address:
10368 Wallace Alley St., #7
Kingsport, TN 37663