May 9, 2006, Introduced by Senators GEORGE, JOHNSON, STAMAS, GARCIA, CROPSEY, JELINEK, HARDIMAN, BROWN, McMANUS, GOSCHKA, BISHOP, CASSIS, KUIPERS and PATTERSON and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled
"The social welfare act,"
(MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 105b.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 105b. The department shall seek appropriate amendments to
the medicaid state plan and shall apply for any necessary federal
waiver of medicaid requirements to allow the department of
community health to do all of the following:
(a) Use medicaid funds to create incentives for individual
medical assistance recipients who practice specified positive
health behaviors. The incentives described in this subdivision may
include, but are not limited to, expanded benefits and positive or
negative incentives relating to premiums, co-pays, or benefits.
(b) Allow the department of community health to create pay-
for-performance incentives for contracted medicaid health
maintenance organizations. The medicaid health maintenance
organization contracts would include incentives for meeting health
outcome targets for chronic disease states and patient compliance
targets established by the department of community health.
(c) Allow the department of community health to establish a
preferred provider program for durable medical equipment. The
preferred provider program for durable medical equipment would
require participation from the department of community health, the
contracted medicaid health maintenance organizations, and provider
organizations. The department of community health shall ask that
the federal waiver waive the any-willing-provider requirement for
medicare-medicaid dual enrollees to allow the state to create a
preferred provider list for durable medical equipment.
(d) Prove financial support for electronic health records
including e-prescribing web-based medical records and other health
information technology initiatives using medicaid funds.