MDHHS seeking proposals to improve specialty behavioral health care for Medicaid beneficiaries

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is seeking proposals from entities to serve as the state’s Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans to ensure Medicaid beneficiaries receive behavioral health care services and support.

Michigan’s specialty behavioral health care system provides health care coverage to about 300,000 Michiganders, including adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbance, individuals with substance use disorder and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. MDHHS contracts with regional PIHPs to manage and deliver these Medicaid-covered services in conjunction with the Community Mental Health Service providers embedded in the communities across the state.

“Michigan Medicaid beneficiaries deserve access