Legislative Priorities

Maintain the Integrity of Medicaid

Issue:
One out of every five Michigan residents uses Medicaid as their primary health insurance. As a result, Medicaid is crucial to assuring access to health care services for much of the low-income population in our state. Any reduction in eligibility, Medicaid benefits, or provider payment rates affects the ability of many to receive care and compromises the overall health of Michigan’s population.

Recommended Action:
Governor Snyder’s recommendation to preserve current Medicaid eligibility categories, benefits, and provider rates values prevention and promotes long-term fiscal strength. The legislature should support and protect the integrity of Medicaid as it currently stands. This will ensure that more providers are willing to deliver Medicaid services and that Michigan’s most vulnerable populations have access to essential care.

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Maintain the Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit

Issue:
The elimination of the Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit compromises the ability of Michigan’s most vulnerable populations to obtain essential dental care services and does not save the State of Michigan money. Maintaining this benefit preserves quality of life and prevents costly longer-term expenditures.

Recommended Action:
Michigan must maintain oral health services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries. The impact on health and the cost to the health care system is significant.

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Promote an All-Payer Patient-Centered Medical Home Model of Care

Issue:
Health care is currently delivered in a fragmented manner that rewards volume over quality, generating unnecessary costs and compromising patient outcomes. A paradigm shift to the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care delivery will transform Michigan’s “illness” system to one of prevention, with subsequent increases in population health and compensatory decreases in avoidable health care expenditures.

Recommended Actions:

Michigan should construct legislation that encourages the development of an All-Payer PCMH system.
Michigan should use evidence-based results from pilot projects to steer policy development around the PCMH model.
Consistent with the PCMH Coordination and Continuity of Care Principle, Michigan should create incentives for systems change that provides integration and alignment of existing community resources, including community health services.

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Legislative Priorities

Maintain the Integrity of Medicaid

Maintain the Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit

Promote an All-Payer Patient-Centered Medical Home Model of Care

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