Michigan Medicaid

Through an Interdepartmental Agreement with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, we facilitate access to health care services for uninsured and underinsured residents by providing Medicaid outreach and eligibility determination, including referrals, coordination and monitoring of medical services. The Interdepartmental Agreement notes that these activities can often be performed in a more cost-effective manner when they are carried out in a coordinated fashion. In such cases, it recommends that those functions can be transferred to Authority Health through a transfer agreement.

Health insurance available to qualifying individuals and families who have limited income and resources. In Michigan, there are two types of Medicaid coverage: Traditional Medicaid and Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP).

Traditional Medicaid

Provides medical coverage for several Michigan programs, such as MiChild, Pregnant Women, Moms, Emergency Services Only, Medicare Savings Program and more. You may be eligible if you are any of the following:

Pregnant
Blind
Disabled
Under 19
Caretaker of a minor
Over 65
Immigrant admitted lawfully

Healthy Michigan Plan

Provides health care coverage for individuals between 19 and 64 years of age.  HMP is a Medicaid Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ACT (ACA 2014). You may be eligible if you are one of the following:

Healthy individual age 19-64
Working individual

MIChild

MIChild is a health care program for children who are under age 19 and is administered by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The program is designed to serve the uninsured children of Michigan’s low-income working families. MIChild has a higher income limit than U-19 Medicaid.

Medicare Savings Program (MSP)

The Medicare Savings Program pays for certain Medicare costs. In some cases, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services may refund the beneficiary a portion of the Medicare Part B premium on an annual basis.

Medicaid for Pregnant Women

Medicaid is available to an eligible woman while she is pregnant, including the month her pregnancy ends and during the two calendar months following the month her pregnancy ends, regardless of the reason (such as live birth or miscarriage, as examples).

Maternity Outpatient Medical Services (MOMS)

Maternity Outpatient Medical Services (MOMS) is a health coverage program administered by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The MOMS program provides health coverage for pregnant or recently pregnant women who are eligible for Emergency Services Only (ESO) Medicaid.

Michigan Medicaid Staff

Tamika Withers
Medicaid Finance Manager

Michele Adams-Calloway
Social and Community Service Manager

Rashidah Cottingham
Medicaid Finance Specialist

See What You Qualify For

Traditional Medicaid

Provides medical coverage for several Michigan programs, such as MiChild, Pregnant Women, Moms, Emergency Services Only, Medicare Savings Program and more.

You may be eligible if you are any of the following:

  • Pregnant
  • Blind
  • Disabled
  • Under 19
  • Caretaker of a minor
  • Over 65
  • Immigrant admitted lawfully

Healthy Michigan Plan

Provides health care coverage for individuals between 19 and 64 years of age.  HMP is a Medicaid Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ACT (ACA 2014).

You may be eligible if you are one of the following:

  • Healthy individual age 19-64
  • Working individual