Michigan Senate Approves Recovery Bill Family Health Insurance

Family Health Insurance The Michigan Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would require the state Department of Community Health to develop a program to recoup costs paid by Medicaid for people who lived in nursing homes or received in-home care services before their death, the Detroit News reports. Michigan Gov.Family Health Insurance Jennifer Granholm (D) was expected to sign the bill.

The state is the last in the nation to pass an estate recovery program required by federal law. Department of Community Health Director Janet Olszewski, Family Health Insurance in a letter to state senators earlier this month, wrote that the state could lose $5 billion — or more than 50% of the state’s $8.6 billion Medicaid budget — in federal Medicaid payments if the state does not comply will the requirement by Sept Family Health Insurance.