MI Comp L § 400.105b (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 400 - Social Services|Act 280 of 1939 - The Social Welfare Act (400.1 - 400.122)|280-1939-COUNTY-DEPARTMENT-OF-SOCIAL-SERVICES - County Department of Social Services (400.45...400.122)|Section 400.105b - Medical Assistance Recipients Who Practice Positive Health Behaviors; Creation of Incentives; Creation of Pay-for-Performance Incentives for Contracted Medicaid Health Maintenance Organizations; Establishment of Preferred Product and Service Formulary Program for Durable Medical Equipment; Financial Support for Electronic Health Records; Federal Waiver Request; Conflict With Federal Statute or Regulation Prohibited.

400.105b Medical assistance recipients who practice positive health behaviors; creation of incentives; creation of pay-for-performance incentives for contracted medicaid health maintenance organizations; establishment of preferred product and service formulary program for durable medical equipment; financial support for electronic health records; federal waiver request; conflict with federal statute or regulation prohibited.Sec. 105b.  (1) The department of community health shall create incentives for individual medical assistance recipients who practice specified positive health behaviors. The incentives described in this subsection may include, but are not limited to, expanded benefits and incentives relating to premiums, co-pays, or benefits. The positive health behaviors described in this subsection may include, but are not limited to, participation in health risk assessments and health screenings, compliance with medical treatment, attendance at scheduled medical appointments, participation in smoking cessation treatment, exercise, prenatal visits, immunizations, and attendance at recommended educational health programs.  (2) The department of community health shall create pay-for-performance incentives for contracted medicaid health maintenance organizations. The medicaid health maintenance organization contracts shall include incentives for meeting health outcome targets for chronic disease states, increasing the number of medical assistance recipients who practice positive health behaviors, and meeting patient compliance targets established by the department of community health. Priority shall be given to strategies that prevent and manage the 10 most prevalent and costly ailments affecting medical assistance recipients.  (3) The department of community health shall establish a preferred product and service formulary program for durable medical equipment. The department of community health shall work with the centers for medicare and medicaid services to determine if a joint partnership with medicare is possible in establishing the program described in this subsection as a means of achieving savings and efficiencies for both the medicaid and medicare programs. The preferred product and service formulary program for durable medical equipment shall require participation from the department of community health and shall permit the contracted medicaid health maintenance organizations and provider organizations to participate.   (4) The department of community health shall seek financial support for electronic health records, including, but not limited to, personal health records, e-prescribing, web-based medical records, and other health information technology initiatives using medicaid funds.  (5) The department of community health shall include in any federal waiver request that is submitted with the intent to secure federal matching funds to cover the medically uninsured nonmedicaid population in the state language to allow the department of community health to establish, at a minimum, the programs required under subsections (1) and (2).  (6) The department of community health shall not implement incentives under this section that conflict with federal statute or regulation. History: Add. 2007, Act 100, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 2007 Popular Name: Act 280