The Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) administers Mississippi’s Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP), using federally imposed civil money penalty funds returned to the state for projects that directly benefit residents of Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities and improve quality of care or quality of life.
Status and timing
Mississippi maintains an open application window for CMP grant proposals except when otherwise directed by CMS. No fixed Mississippi closing date, clock time, or time zone is published. Under current CMS guidance, standard projects should be submitted at least 90 days before the desired project start date, and multi-year projects should generally be submitted at least 120 days before the start of Year 1.
Eligibility
Potential applicants include certified nursing facilities, academic or research institutions, state, local, or tribal agencies, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, vendors, professional associations, resident or family councils, consumer advocacy organizations, and other qualified organizations able to implement a compliant project benefiting certified nursing facility residents. A primary applicant that is not itself a nursing home must identify committed participating nursing homes and provide required letters of support.
Funding and match
CMS currently sets a $6,000 maximum per participating nursing home per project for Resident or Family Council, Consumer Information, Training to Improve Quality of Care, and Activities to Improve Quality of Life categories. A facility may participate in up to three separate training projects over a three-year period, for up to $18,000 total across those distinct projects. CMS may consider requests above a category cap case by case with strong justification. The current application treats cost sharing as applicable when present; no universal mandatory non-federal match was identified.
Allowable project direction
Current CMS guidance supports resident-centered quality improvement, consumer engagement, staff training and technical assistance, mental and behavioral health projects, and workforce enhancement projects that improve competency, education, training, culture change, or professional development for direct-care workers.
Important non-allowable limits
CMP funds cannot be used for nursing-home services or supplies that are already the facility’s responsibility, capital improvements, nursing-home employee salaries, palliative care services, duplicative state or federal funding, or high-dollar complex or sophisticated technology. Current CMS State Operations Manual guidance specifically identifies telemedicine services and equipment as non-allowable and also bars complex technology such as telemedicine, alert systems, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. Accordingly, Nonagon N9+ should not be represented as an eligible CMPRP-funded device or telemedicine project.
Application package and submission
Applicants must use the current CMS-approved CMPRP Application Form and Application Budget Spreadsheet and follow the current Application Handbook and submission checklist. Supporting materials can include participating nursing-home letters of support, the list of participating nursing homes and CMS Certification Numbers, detailed budget and justification, and project results for prior CMP-funded work when applicable. Applicants submit first to the Mississippi Division of Medicaid for state review; only the State Agency forwards accepted applications to the CMS CMPRP Team for final determination.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. This is a strong Mississippi long-term-care quality improvement funding channel with an open application window and broad organizational eligibility. N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. QC Healthcare / Dr. Miltie direct-vendor fit: 20/100. Vendors may be eligible applicants, but current federal rules prohibit telemedicine services/equipment and high-dollar complex technology. A direct Dr. Miltie or QC Healthcare role should be considered only for a separately allowable non-technology quality-improvement, training, workforce, behavioral-health, or technical-assistance concept with verified nursing-facility partners and Marc approval where required.
Authoritative sources
Mississippi Division of Medicaid — Civil Money Penalty Grant Awards Program
CMS — Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program