Healthy Michigan Plan: Low cost for quality health care Dental benefits Rewards for healthy behavior Ages 19-64 years Even if you don’t qualify for Medicaid, you could still qualify for the Healthy Michigan Plan. MI Dual Special Needs plans: ...
The article announces that six Medicaid health plans in Michigan, including Sparrow PHP, Total Health Care and HAP Midwest Health Plan, appealed the contract rebid decisions of the state on serving more tha...
byUniversity of Michigan Credit: CC0 Public Domain Community health workers employed by Medicaid health plans can help low-income people who face barriers to care rely less on the emergency room, and more on outpatient care, a new study finds. The CHWs in the study worked with Medicaid partic...
Michigan's Maternal Infant Health Program, offered at no cost to Medicaid-eligible pregnantwomen, provideshome visits, care coordination and referrals, transportation to doctor's offices and interventions based on individual care plans. The comprehensive approach involves nurses, social workers and other ...
MichiganMedicaid in Michigan has several programs that provide in-home assistance. TheChoice Waiverprovides a broad range of services, such as help with personal care, chore and homemaker services, and respite care at home. TheHome Help Programcovers a more limited range of services. Finally, the...
The study is particularly timely for this state. Michigan recently implemented its own work requirement and the decision to do so was an embattled one. Four middle-aged women who are enrolled in HMP have sued the state saying that the work requirement would pose a threat to their...
On September 16, Michigan’s Republican Governor Rick Snyder signed a law altering the state’s Medicaid program that uses similar principles. In the Michigan law, newly insured beneficiaries can receive their health benefits through private insurance plans (not necessarily through marketplace plans, ...
First, politicians oftentimes say things they don’t mean (remember Obama’s pledge that people could keep their doctors and their health plans if Obamacare was enacted?). Second, the plans to fix Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid don’t involve any cuts. Instead, reformers are proposing...
Michigan intends to overhaul the way it awards Medicaid managed-care contracts with a plan that could coax new players into the game, but it's going to require a cash infusion. State health care officials said a federal mandate that requires the state to pay Medicaid health plans enough to...
Meridian Health Plan of Michigan, Inc., aCentene Corporationcompany, was alsorecently selectedby theMichigan Department of Health and Human Servicesto provide highly integrated Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible Michiganders through a Highly Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan. ...