Briefs & Reports

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) requires children (and a few adults) receiving services from both the Children’s Special Health Care Services (CSHCS) program and the Medicaid program to enroll in Medicaid HMOs. As of May 1, 2015, there were 17,996 joint CSHCS/Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicaid HMOs – an increase of 373 … Read More

Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP) enrollment remains high, far exceeding original expectations. HMP enrollees are required to report any changes in their economic or health care coverage circumstance as those changes occur. They are also subject to an annual redetermination of eligibility; those that entered the program in April and May 2014 were recently subject to … Read More

While the Michigan Department of Human Services and Michigan Department of Community Health were combined in April into the new Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, legislative action on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015-2016 budgets occurred separately for the two former departments. The House/Senate Conference Committee on the Community Health budget finished its work … Read More

In previous editions of The Michigan Update we have written about Michigan’s plan to implement an integrated delivery system of health care for adults dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid (duals). The demonstration will last for three years and in four regions of the state. The entire Upper Peninsula is one region; eight counties in … Read More

According to MAXIMUS, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) contractor for MIChild enrollment, there were 44,508 children enrolled in the MIChild program as of May 1, 2015. The May enrollment total reflects an increase of 647 from the 43,861 children enrolled as of April 1, 2015. Of the total number of children enrolled, 892 enrollees are … Read More

On May 26, 2015, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed managed care rule intended to update and strengthen the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) regulations last updated in 2003. “This proposed rule would modernize the Medicaid managed care regulations to reflect changes in the usage of managed … Read More

Date: Thursday, May 28, 2015 Time: 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. EDT The wait is over. CMS has finally released a new set of proposed Medicaid managed care and CHIP regulations – the first major update of federal rules for health plans in state-sponsored programs in more than a decade. The changes seek to align Medicaid … Read More

HMA Information Services (HMAIS) will present the free webinar, “Implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Ruling in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center: A Real-world Analysis” at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 30. The U.S. Supreme Court last month limited the ability of healthcare providers to file lawsuits against state Medicaid programs over the adequacy of … Read More

HMA Principal Dr. Jeffrey Ring’s guest blog, “Culturally Responsive Care: Why and How” is currently featured on the website www.equityofcare.org. Equity of Care is the national collaborative effort of the America’s Essential Hospitals, American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges and Catholic Health Association of the United States. … Read More

HMA is pleased to announce recent additions to our IT Advisory Services team: Stephen DePooter (Chicago) is the former CIO of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS). During his tenure at HFS, Stephen led the development and implementation of a unique Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) partnership between the states of Illinois … Read More