LEVEL OF EFFORT. The historic baseline -- adjusted to FY96 -- for the amount of space-available care which an MTF provides to Medicare dual-eligibles (patients over age 65 or with special qualifiers, i.e., disability) for MTF outpatient, inpatient, and USTF care; a region must provide the same amount of LOE care in the first year of the demonstration as it did during the baseline calculation year, before its enrolling MTFs are able to receive any added HCFA revenue for enrolled patients (final definition pending negotiations and legislation; see also space-available care).