Crain’s Detroit: Michigan HMOs propose pilot projects to reform mental health system

Michigan’s 11 Medicaid health plans Tuesday called on the state Legislature to go further than a state panel recommended on putting Michigan on the path to giving the HMOs a greater role in the state’s $2.4 billion Medicaid behavioral health system. Earlier this month, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services issued a 91-page interim report Read more about Crain’s Detroit: Michigan HMOs propose pilot projects to reform mental health system[…]

MLive: Lawmakers say mental health cuts put Michigan counties in bad spot

ANN ABROR, MI – Lawmakers representing the Ann Arbor area in the state Legislature say they’re concerned about the state of mental health funding and service delivery in Michigan, and what might be coming next. Cuts at the state level in recent years already have created a crisis for community mental health service providers across Read more about MLive: Lawmakers say mental health cuts put Michigan counties in bad spot[…]

Crain’s Detroit: Voices of families need to be considered in debate to reform state’s Medicaid behavioral health system

Some of the voices least heard in the discussion to privatize the Medicaid-funded behavioral health system in Michigan or improve the current system are the families of those 350,000 people with mental health problems, substance abuse addictions or the intellectually or developmentally disabled. I sat down recently with 10 family and board members of the Read more about Crain’s Detroit: Voices of families need to be considered in debate to reform state’s Medicaid behavioral health system[…]

Crain’s Detroit: Snyder’s proposed health budget up 2.8%, but no funding for mental health integration pilot projects

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is proposing a 2.8 percent increase in the state’s fiscal 2018 health and human services budget, but no additional funding for mental health integration pilot projects or potential cutbacks in federal Medicaid funding. Of the state’s proposed $56.3 billion state budget, 45 percent, or $25.54 billion, is to fund the Michigan Department of Read more about Crain’s Detroit: Snyder’s proposed health budget up 2.8%, but no funding for mental health integration pilot projects[…]