Adjustments for Disaster-Recovery States to the Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011 and Fiscal Year 2012 Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) Rates for Federal Matching Shares for Medicaid and Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance and Guardianship Assistance Programs

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This notice describes the methodology for calculating the higher federal matching funding that is made available under section 1905(aa) of the Social Security Act, as amended by section 2006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("Affordable Care Act") and provides the adjusted Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) rates for the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2011 and Fiscal Year 2012 for disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment states. Section 1905(aa) of the Social Security Act provides for an increase in the FMAP rate for qualifying states that have experienced a major, statewide disaster.