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MDHHS Seeking Input on Ways to Improve Medicaid Prior to Selecting Health Plans
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is asking for input on its efforts to create a better public health care program. As part of an initiative called MIHealthyLife, MDHHS is looking for ideas about how to create a more equitable, coordinated, and person-centered system of care, dedicated to ensuring Michiganders a healthier future.
Medicaid and the Healthy Michigan Plan provide health care coverage to approximately 2.2 million Michiganders, including low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities. The health plans serving these programs are key to achieving the MDHHS mission to improve the health, safety, and prosperity of residents.
MDHHS seeks to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in the services and supports the Medicaid health plans provide. Through this online survey MDHHS hopes to receive input from people currently enrolled in Medicaid and their families; advocacy groups; community-based organizations; federally recognized Michigan Indian tribes; providers of health care, behavioral health, dental care, and other types of care; health systems; health plans; and other interested parties.
Survey questions seek feedback on broad priorities or strategic pillars – principles that will guide the state’s policy and program changes and help the state identify where MDHHS should focus its efforts. Examples of pillars include giving all children a healthy start, reducing racial and ethnic health disparities, and using data to drive outcomes.
Feedback will help guide planning and decision-making in preparation for the implementation of new Medicaid health plan contracts, as well as other MDHHS efforts to improve the health of residents served by the programs.
Survey responses must be submitted through the online survey, no later than 5 p.m., August 26, 2022.
For more information, or to stay updated on MIHealthyLife, visit MIHealthyLife.
All procurement-related questions can be sent to mdhhs-mihealthylife@michigan.gov.