Michigan Legislature Fiscal Forum January 2014 Community Mental Health Services In Michigan

This report by Margaret Alston, a senior financial analyst for the Michigan House Fiscal Agency, discusses changes taking place in 2014 to Michigan's financing and delivery of public mental health and addiction treatment services. The publication discusses changes to the constitutional, statutory, and federal authorization for delivery of community mental health services, the organizational structure of local community mental health services programs (CMHSPs), and specialty behavioral health prepaid inpatient health plans (PIHPs). Previously public mental health services in Michigan’s 83 counties were delivered by 46 CMHs that contracted with 18 PIHPs. Addiction treatment services were carved out from . . .