Act No. 100
Public Acts of 2007
Approved by the Governor
October 1, 2007
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 1, 2007
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2007
STATE OF MICHIGAN
94TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2007
Introduced by Senator George
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1
AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled "An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 105b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
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.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 94th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 5194.
(b) House Bill No. 5198.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor