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Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID - formerly known as ICF/MR) is a disability benefit that is offered through United States Medicaid funding. Section 1905(d) of the Social Security Act[1] enacted benefits and made funding available for "institutions" (which consisted of 4 or more beds) for individuals with mental retardation or developmental disabilities (MR/DD), the Act states these facilities providing for the MR/DD population must provide adequate "active treatment," currently defined by Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[2]

Since the regulations creation there has been a major change in the stigma regarding the field of developmental disabilities. The Act places substantial emphasis on how MR/DD people living in their own homes, controlling their own lives while interacting with others and being an integrated part the home community has become beneficial. In 1999, the Supreme Court of the United States made an important ruling on this topic in Olmstead v. L.C. [3]