Michigan HHS Expands Opioid Health Home Services To Additional Counties

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) expanded its Medicaid Opioid Health Home (OHH) initiative to more Michigan counties to provide intensive care management and care coordination services for Medicaid beneficiaries with an opioid addiction. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved Michigan's Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) to expand the OHH initiative into Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan (PIHP) Regions 6, 7 and 10. The expanded SPA will allow thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries meeting the eligibility criteria to receive OHH services.

A Health Home is a benefit awarded to Medicaid beneficiaries who . . .