Bill Text: MI HB4495 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Human services: medical services; general changes to the medical assistance program; provide for. Amends secs. 105d & 106 of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.105d & 400.106) & repeals secs. 105c & 105f of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.105c & 400.105f).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-2)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-19 - Assigned Pa 98'23 With Immediate Effect [HB4495 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4495-Engrossed.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4495
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled
"The social welfare act,"
by amending sections 105d and 106 (MCL 400.105d and 400.106), section 105d as amended by 2018 PA 208 and section 106 as amended by 2018 PA 511; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 105d. (1) The department shall seek a waiver approval from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to do, without jeopardizing federal match dollars or otherwise incurring federal financial penalties, and upon approval of the waiver shall do, all of the following:
(a) Enroll individuals eligible under section 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of title XIX who meet the citizenship provisions of 42 CFR 435.406 and who are otherwise eligible for the medical assistance program under this act into a contracted health plan. that provides for an account into which money from any source, including, but not limited to, the enrollee, the enrollee's employer, and private or public entities on the enrollee's behalf, can be deposited to pay for incurred health expenses, including, but not limited to, co-pays. The account shall be administered by the department and can be delegated to a contracted health plan or a third party administrator, as considered necessary.
(b) Ensure that contracted health plans track all enrollee co-pays incurred for the first 6 months that an individual is enrolled in the program described in subdivision (a) and calculate the average monthly co-pay experience for the enrollee. The average co-pay amount shall be adjusted at least annually to reflect changes in the enrollee's co-pay experience. The department shall ensure that each enrollee receives quarterly statements for his or her account that include expenditures from the account, account balance, and the cost-sharing amount due for the following 3 months. The enrollee shall be required to remit each month the average co-pay amount calculated by the contracted health plan into the enrollee's account. The department shall pursue a range of consequences for enrollees who consistently fail to meet their cost-sharing requirements, including, but not limited to, using the MIChild program as a template and closer oversight by health plans in access to providers.
(b) (c) Give enrollees described in subdivision (a) a choice in choosing among contracted health plans.
(c) (d) Ensure that all enrollees described in subdivision (a) have access to a primary care practitioner who is licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized to engage in his or her the primary care practitioner's health care profession in this state and to preventive services. The department shall require that all new enrollees be assigned and have scheduled an initial appointment with their primary care practitioner within 60 days of initial enrollment. The department shall monitor and track contracted health plans for compliance in this area and consider that compliance in any health plan incentive programs. The department shall ensure that the contracted health plans have procedures to ensure that the privacy of the enrollees' personal information is protected in accordance with the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996, Public Law 104-191.
(e) Require enrollees described in subdivision (a) with annual incomes between 100% and 133% of the federal poverty guidelines to contribute not more than 5% of income annually for cost-sharing requirements. Cost-sharing includes co-pays and required contributions made into the accounts authorized under subdivision (a). Contributions required in this subdivision do not apply for the first 6 months an individual described in subdivision (a) is enrolled. Required contributions to an account used to pay for incurred health expenses shall be 2% of income annually. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (20), notwithstanding this minimum, required contributions may be reduced by the contracting health plan. The reductions may occur only if healthy behaviors are being addressed as attested to by the contracted health plan based on uniform standards developed by the department in consultation with the contracted health plans. The uniform standards shall include healthy behaviors such as completing a department approved annual health risk assessment to identify unhealthy characteristics, including alcohol use, substance use disorders, tobacco use, obesity, and immunization status. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (20), co-pays can be reduced if healthy behaviors are met, but not until annual accumulated co-pays reach 2% of income except co-pays for specific services may be waived by the contracted health plan if the desired outcome is to promote greater access to services that prevent the progression of and complications related to chronic diseases. If the enrollee described in subdivision (a) becomes ineligible for medical assistance under the program described in this section, the remaining balance in the account described in subdivision (a) shall be returned to that enrollee in the form of a voucher for the sole purpose of purchasing and paying for private insurance.
(d) Establish cost sharing requirements for enrollees described in subsection (1)(a) as approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
(e) (f) Implement a co-pay structure that encourages plan to encourage use of high-value services, while discouraging low-value services such as nonurgent emergency department use.
(g) During the enrollment process, inform enrollees described in subdivision (a) about advance directives and require the enrollees to complete a department-approved advance directive on a form that includes an option to decline. The advance directives received from enrollees as provided in this subdivision shall be transmitted to the peace of mind registry organization to be placed on the peace of mind registry.
(f) (h) Develop incentives for enrollees and providers who assist the department in detecting fraud and abuse in the medical assistance program. The department shall provide an annual report that includes the type of fraud detected, the amount saved, and the outcome of the investigation to the legislature.
(g) (i) Allow for services provided by telemedicine from a practitioner who is licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized under section 16171 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16171, to engage in his or her the practitioner's health care profession in the state where the patient is located.
(2) For services rendered to an uninsured individual, a hospital that participates in the medical assistance program under this act shall accept 115% of Medicare rates as payments in full from an uninsured individual with an annual income level up to 250% of the federal poverty guidelines. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(3) Not more than 7 calendar days after receiving each of the official waiver-related written correspondence from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to implement the provisions of this section, the department shall submit a written copy of the approved waiver provisions to the legislature for review.
(3) (4) The department shall develop and implement a plan to enroll all existing fee-for-service enrollees into contracted health plans if allowable by law, if the medical assistance program is the primary payer and if that enrollment is cost-effective. This includes all newly eligible enrollees as described in subsection (1)(a). The department shall include contracted health plans as the mandatory delivery system in its waiver request. The department also shall pursue any and all necessary waivers to enroll persons eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare into the 4 integrated care demonstration regions. The department shall identify all remaining populations eligible for managed care, develop plans for their integration into managed care, and provide recommendations for a performance bonus incentive plan mechanism for long-term care managed care providers that are consistent with other managed care performance bonus incentive plans. The department shall make recommendations for a performance bonus incentive plan for long-term care managed care providers of up to 3% of their Medicaid capitation payments, consistent with other managed care performance bonus incentive plans. These payments shall comply with federal requirements and shall be based on measures that identify the appropriate use of long-term care services and that focus on consumer satisfaction, consumer choice, and other appropriate quality measures applicable to community-based and nursing home services. Where appropriate, these quality measures shall be consistent with quality measures used for similar services implemented by the integrated care for duals demonstration project. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(4) (5) The department shall implement a pharmaceutical benefit that utilizes co-pays at appropriate levels allowable by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to encourage the use of high-value, low-cost prescriptions, such as generic prescriptions when such an alternative exists for a branded product and 90-day prescription supplies, as recommended by the enrollee's prescribing provider and as is consistent with section 109h and sections 9701 to 9709 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9701 to 333.9709. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(6) The department shall work with providers, contracted health plans, and other departments as necessary to create processes that reduce the amount of uncollected cost-sharing and reduce the administrative cost of collecting cost-sharing. To this end, a minimum 0.25% of payments to contracted health plans shall be withheld for the purpose of establishing a cost-sharing compliance bonus pool beginning October 1, 2015. The distribution of funds from the cost-sharing compliance pool shall be based on the contracted health plans' success in collecting cost-sharing payments. The department shall develop the methodology for distribution of these funds. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(7) The department shall develop a methodology that decreases the amount an enrollee's required contribution may be reduced as described in subsection (1)(e) based on, but not limited to, factors such as an enrollee's failure to pay cost-sharing requirements and the enrollee's inappropriate utilization of emergency departments.
(8) The program described in this section is created in part to extend health coverage to the state's low-income citizens and to provide health insurance cost relief to individuals and to the business community by reducing the cost shift attendant to uncompensated care. Uncompensated care does not include courtesy allowances or discounts given to patients. The Medicaid hospital cost report shall be part of the uncompensated care definition and calculation. In addition to the Medicaid hospital cost report, the department shall collect and examine other relevant financial data for all hospitals and evaluate the impact that providing medical coverage to the expanded population of enrollees described in subsection (1)(a) has had on the actual cost of uncompensated care. This shall be reported for all hospitals in the state. By December 31, 2014, the department shall make an initial baseline uncompensated care report containing at least the data described in this subsection to the legislature and each December 31 after that shall make a report regarding the preceding fiscal year's evidence of the reduction in the amount of the actual cost of uncompensated care compared to the initial baseline report. The baseline report shall use fiscal year 2012-2013 data. Based on the evidence of the reduction in the amount of the actual cost of uncompensated care borne by the hospitals in this state, the department shall proportionally reduce the disproportionate share payments to all hospitals and hospital systems for the purpose of producing general fund savings. The department shall recognize any savings from this reduction by September 30, 2016. All the reports required under this subsection shall be made available to the legislature and shall be easily accessible on the department's website.
(9) The department of insurance and financial services shall examine the financial reports of health insurers and evaluate the impact that providing medical coverage to the expanded population of enrollees described in subsection (1)(a) has had on the cost of uncompensated care as it relates to insurance rates and insurance rate change filings, as well as its resulting net effect on rates overall. The department of insurance and financial services shall consider the evaluation described in this subsection in the annual approval of rates. By December 31, 2014, the department of insurance and financial services shall make an initial baseline report to the legislature regarding rates and each December 31 after that shall make a report regarding the evidence of the change in rates compared to the initial baseline report. All the reports required under this subsection shall be made available to the legislature and shall be made available and easily accessible on the department's website.
(10) The department shall explore and develop a range of innovations and initiatives to improve the effectiveness and performance of the medical assistance program and to lower overall health care costs in this state. The department shall report the results of the efforts described in this subsection to the legislature and to the house and senate fiscal agencies by September 30, 2015. The report required under this subsection shall also be made available and easily accessible on the department's website. The department shall pursue a broad range of innovations and initiatives as time and resources allow that shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(a) The value and cost-effectiveness of optional Medicaid benefits as described in federal statute.
(b) The identification of private sector, primarily small business, health coverage benefit differences compared to the medical assistance program services and justification for the differences.
(c) The minimum measures and data sets required to effectively measure the medical assistance program's return on investment for taxpayers.
(d) Review and evaluation of the effectiveness of current incentives for contracted health plans, providers, and beneficiaries with recommendations for expanding and refining incentives to accelerate improvement in health outcomes, healthy behaviors, and cost-effectiveness and review of the compliance of required contributions and co-pays.
(e) Review and evaluation of the current design principles that serve as the foundation for the state's medical assistance program to ensure the program is cost-effective and that appropriate incentive measures are utilized. The review shall include, at a minimum, the auto-assignment algorithm and performance bonus incentive pool. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(f) The identification of private sector initiatives used to incent individuals to comply with medical advice.
(11) By December 31, 2015, the department shall review and report to the legislature the feasibility of programs recommended by multiple national organizations that include, but are not limited to, the council of state governments, the national conference of state legislatures, and the American legislative exchange council, on improving the cost-effectiveness of the medical assistance program.
(5) (12) The department in collaboration with the contracted health plans and providers shall create financial incentives for all of the following:enrollees who demonstrate improved health outcomes, practice healthy behaviors, or complete screenings or procedures that improve health outcomes.
(a) Contracted health plans that meet specified population improvement goals.
(b) Providers who meet specified quality, cost, and utilization targets.
(c) Enrollees who demonstrate improved health outcomes or maintain healthy behaviors as identified in a health risk assessment as identified by their primary care practitioner who is licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized to engage in his or her health care profession in this state. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(6) (13) The performance bonus incentive pool for contracted health plans that are not specialty prepaid health plans shall include inappropriate utilization of emergency departments, ambulatory care, contracted health plan all-cause acute 30-day readmission rates, and generic drug utilization when such an alternative exists for a branded product and consistent with section 109h and sections 9701 to 9709 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9701 to 333.9709, as a percentage of total. These measurement tools shall be considered and weighed within the 6 highest factors used in the formula. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.targets established for at least 3 and no more than 5 objectives established by the department in collaboration with the contracted health plans. Targets should focus on key current health priorities, improve health equity, utilize established measurements to set a baseline for performance improvement, and be determined at least 6 months before the measurement period to support planning and execution necessary for achievement of desired outcomes.
(7) (14) The department shall ensure that all capitated payments made to contracted health plans are actuarially sound. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(15) The department shall maintain administrative costs at a level of not more than 1% of the department's appropriation of the state medical assistance program. These administrative costs shall be capped at the total administrative costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, except for inflation and project-related costs required to achieve medical assistance net general fund savings. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(16) The department shall establish uniform procedures and compliance metrics for utilization by the contracted health plans to ensure that cost-sharing requirements are being met. This shall include ramifications for the contracted health plans' failure to comply with performance or compliance metrics. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(8) (17) The department shall may withhold , at a minimum, 0.75% no more than 1% of payments to contracted health plans , except for specialty prepaid health plans, for the purpose of expanding the existing a performance bonus incentive pool. Distribution of funds from the performance bonus incentive pool is contingent on the contracted health plan's completion of the required performance or compliance metrics. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(18) The department shall withhold, at a minimum, 0.75% of payments to specialty prepaid health plans for the purpose of establishing a performance bonus incentive pool. Distribution of funds from the performance bonus incentive pool is contingent on the specialty prepaid health plan's completion of the required performance of compliance metrics that shall include, at a minimum, partnering with other contracted health plans to reduce nonemergent emergency department utilization, increased participation in patient-centered medical homes, increased use of electronic health records and data sharing with other providers, and identification of enrollees who may be eligible for services through the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(9) (19) The department shall may measure contracted health plan or specialty prepaid health plan performance metrics, as applicable, on application of standards of care as that relates to appropriate treatment of substance use disorders and efforts to reduce substance use disorders. This subsection applies whether or not either or both of the waivers requested under this section are approved, the patient protection and affordable care act is repealed, or the state terminates or opts out of the program established under this section.
(20) By October 1, 2018, in addition to the waiver requested in subsection (1), the department shall seek an additional waiver from the United States Department of Health and Human Services that requires individuals who are between 100% and 133% of the federal poverty guidelines and who have had medical assistance coverage for 48 cumulative months beginning on the date of their enrollment into the program described in subsection (1) by the date of the waiver implementation to choose 1 of the following options:
(a) Complete a healthy behavior as provided in subsection (1)(e) with intentional effort given to making subsequent year healthy behaviors incrementally more challenging in order to continue to focus on eliminating health-related obstacles inhibiting enrollees from achieving their highest levels of personal productivity and pay a premium of 5% of income. A required contribution for a premium is not eligible for reduction or refund.
(b) Suspend eligibility for the program described in subsection (1)(a) until the individual complies with subdivision (a).
(21) The department shall notify enrollees 60 days before the enrollee would lose coverage under the current program that this coverage is no longer available to them and that, in order to continue coverage, the enrollee must comply with the option described in subsection (20)(a).
(22) The medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall remain in effect for not longer than a 16-month period after submission of a new or amended waiver request under subsection (20) if a new or amended waiver request is not approved within 12 months after submission. The department must notify individuals described in subsection (1)(a) that their coverage will be terminated by February 1, 2020 if a new or amended waiver request is not approved within 12 months after submission.
(23) If a new or amended waiver requested under subsection (20) is denied by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall remain in effect for a 16-month period after the date of submission of the new or amended waiver request unless the United States Department of Health and Human Services approves a new or amended waiver described in this subsection within the 12 months after the date of submission of the new or amended waiver request. A request for a new or amended waiver under this subsection must comply with the other requirements of this section and must be provided to the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations committees and the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, at least 30 days before submission to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. If a new or amended waiver request under this subsection is not approved within the 12-month period described in this subsection, the department must give 4 months' notice that medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall be terminated.
(24) If a new or amended waiver requested under subsection (20) is canceled by the United States Department of Health and Human Services or is invalidated, medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall remain in effect for 16 months after the date of submission of a new or amended waiver unless the United States Department of Health and Human Services approves a new or amended waiver described in this subsection within the 12 months after the date of submission of the new or amended waiver. A request for a new or amended waiver under this subsection must comply with the other requirements of this section and must be provided to the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations committees and the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on the department budget at least 30 days before submission to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. If a new or amended waiver under this subsection is not approved within the 12-month period described in this subsection, the department must give 4 months' notice that medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall be terminated.
(25) If a new or amended waiver request under subsection (23) or (24) is approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services but does not comply with the other requirements of this section, medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall be terminated 4 months after the new or amended waiver has been determined to be in noncompliance. The department must notify individuals described in subsection (1)(a) at least 4 months before the termination date that enrollment shall be terminated and the reason for termination.
(26) Individuals described in 42 CFR 440.315 are not subject to the provisions of the waiver described in subsection (20).
(10) (27) The department shall make available at least 3 years of state medical assistance program data, without charge, to any vendor considered qualified by the department who indicates interest in submitting proposals to contracted health plans in order to implement cost savings and population health improvement opportunities through the use of innovative information and data management technologies. Any program or proposal to the contracted health plans must be consistent with the state's goals of improving health, increasing the quality, reliability, availability, and continuity of care, and reducing the cost of care of the eligible population of enrollees described in subsection (1)(a). The use of the data described in this subsection for the purpose of assessing the potential opportunity and subsequent development and submission of formal proposals to contracted health plans is not a cost or contractual obligation to the department or the state.
(28) This section does not apply if either of the following occurs:
(a) If the department is unable to obtain either of the federal waivers requested in subsection (1) or (20).
(b) If federal government matching funds for the program described in this section are reduced below 100% and annual state savings and other nonfederal net savings associated with the implementation of that program are not sufficient to cover the reduced federal match. The department shall determine and the state budget office shall approve how annual state savings and other nonfederal net savings shall be calculated by June 1, 2014. By September 1, 2014, the calculations and methodology used to determine the state and other nonfederal net savings shall be submitted to the legislature. The calculation of annual state and other nonfederal net savings shall be published annually on January 15 by the state budget office. If the annual state savings and other nonfederal net savings are not sufficient to cover the reduced federal match, medical coverage for individuals described in subsection (1)(a) shall remain in effect until the end of the fiscal year in which the calculation described in this subdivision is published by the state budget office.
(29) The department shall develop, administer, and coordinate with the department of treasury a procedure for offsetting the state tax refunds of an enrollee who owes a liability to the state of past due uncollected cost-sharing, as allowable by the federal government. The procedure shall include a guideline that the department submit to the department of treasury, not later than November 1 of each year, all requests for the offset of state tax refunds claimed on returns filed or to be filed for that tax year. For the purpose of this subsection, any nonpayment of the cost-sharing required under this section owed by the enrollee is considered a liability to the state under section 30a(2)(b) of 1941 PA 122, MCL 205.30a.
(30) For the purpose of this subsection, any nonpayment of the cost-sharing required under this section owed by the enrollee is considered a current liability to the state under section 32 of the McCauley-Traxler-Law-Bowman-McNeely lottery act, 1972 PA 239, MCL 432.32, and shall be handled in accordance with the procedures for handling a liability to the state under that section, as allowed by the federal government.
(31) By November 30, 2013, the department shall convene a symposium to examine the issues of emergency department overutilization and improper usage. The department shall submit a report to the legislature that identifies the causes of overutilization and improper emergency service usage that includes specific best practice recommendations for decreasing overutilization of emergency departments and improper emergency service usage, as well as how those best practices are being implemented. Both broad recommendations and specific recommendations related to the Medicaid program, enrollee behavior, and health plan access issues shall be included.
(32) The department shall contract with an independent third party vendor to review the reports required in subsections (8) and (9) and other data as necessary, in order to develop a methodology for measuring, tracking, and reporting medical cost and uncompensated care cost reduction or rate of increase reduction and their effect on health insurance rates along with recommendations for ongoing annual review. The final report and recommendations shall be submitted to the legislature by September 30, 2015.
(11) (33) For the purposes of submitting reports and other information or data required under this section only, "legislature" means the senate majority leader, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations committees, the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, and the chairs of the senate and house of representatives standing committees on health policy.
(12) (34) As used in this section:
(a) "Patient protection and affordable care act" means the patient protection and affordable care act, Public Law 111-148, as amended by the federal health care and education reconciliation act of 2010, Public Law 111-152.
(b) "Peace of mind registry" and "peace of mind registry organization" mean those terms as defined in section 10301 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.10301.
(c) "State savings" means any state fund net savings, calculated as of the closing of the financial books for the department at the end of each fiscal year, that result from the program described in this section. The savings shall result in a reduction in spending from the following state fund accounts: adult benefit waiver, non-Medicaid community mental health, and prisoner health care. Any identified savings from other state fund accounts shall be proposed to the house of representatives and senate appropriations committees for approval to include in that year's state savings calculation. It is the intent of the legislature that for fiscal year ending September 30, 2014 only, $193,000,000.00 of the state savings shall be deposited in the roads and risks reserve fund created in section 211b of article VIII of 2013 PA 59.
(b) (d) "Telemedicine" means that term as defined in section 3476 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3476.
Sec. 106. (1) As used in this act, "medically indigent individual" means any of the following:
(a) An individual receiving family independence program benefits or an individual receiving supplemental security income under title XVI or state supplementation under title XVI subject to limitations imposed by the director according to title XIX.
(b) Except as provided in sections 106a and 106b, an individual who meets all of the following conditions:
(i) The individual has applied in the manner the department prescribes.
(ii) The individual's need for the type of medical assistance available under this act for which the individual applied has been professionally established and payment for it is not available through the legal obligation of a public or private contractor to pay or provide for the care without regard to the income or resources of the patient. The department is subrogated to any right of recovery that a patient may have for the cost of hospitalization, pharmaceutical services, physician services, nursing services, and other medical services not to exceed the amount of money expended by the department for the care and treatment of the patient. The patient or other person acting on the patient's behalf shall execute and deliver an assignment of claim or other authorizations as necessary to secure the right of recovery to the department. A payment may be withheld under this act for medical assistance for an injury or disability for which the individual is entitled to medical care or reimbursement for the cost of medical care under chapter 31 of the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.3101 to 500.3179, or under another policy of insurance providing medical or hospital benefits, or both, for the individual unless the individual's entitlement to that medical care or reimbursement is at issue. If a payment is made, the department, to enforce its subrogation right, may do either of the following: (a) intervene or join in an action or proceeding brought by the injured, diseased, or disabled individual, the individual's guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors, against the third person who may be liable for the injury, disease, or disability, or against contractors, public or private, who may be liable to pay or provide medical care and services rendered to an injured, diseased, or disabled individual; (b) institute and prosecute a legal proceeding against a third person who may be liable for the injury, disease, or disability, or against contractors, public or private, who may be liable to pay or provide medical care and services rendered to an injured, diseased, or disabled individual, in state or federal court, either alone or in conjunction with the injured, diseased, or disabled individual, the individual's guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors. The department may institute the proceedings in its own name or in the name of the injured, diseased, or disabled individual, the individual's guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors. As provided in section 6023 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.6023, the department, in enforcing its subrogation right, shall not satisfy a judgment against the third person's property that is exempt from levy and sale. The injured, diseased, or disabled individual may proceed in his or her the injured, diseased, or disabled individual's own name, collecting the costs without the necessity of joining the department or the state as a named party. The injured, diseased, or disabled individual shall notify the department of the action or proceeding entered into upon commencement of the action or proceeding. An action taken by the state or the department in connection with the right of recovery afforded by this section does not deny the injured, diseased, or disabled individual any part of the recovery beyond the costs expended on the individual's behalf by the department. The costs of legal action initiated by the state must be paid by the state. A payment must not be made under this act for medical assistance for an injury, disease, or disability for which the individual is entitled to medical care or the cost of medical care under the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 418.941; except that payment may be made if an appropriate application for medical care or the cost of the medical care has been made under the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 418.941, entitlement has not been finally determined, and an arrangement satisfactory to the department has been made for reimbursement if the claim under the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 418.941, is finally sustained.
(iii) The individual has an annual income that is below, or subject to limitations imposed by the director and because of medical expenses falls below, the protected basic maintenance level. The protected basic maintenance level for 1-person and 2-person families must be not less than 100% of the payment standards generally used to determine eligibility in the family independence program. For families of 3 or more persons, the protected basic maintenance level must be not less than 100% of the payment standard generally used to determine eligibility in the family independence program. These levels must recognize regional variations and must not exceed 133-1/3% of the payment standard generally used to determine eligibility in the family independence program.
(iv) The individual, if a family independence program related individual and living alone, has liquid or marketable assets of not more than $2,000.00 in value, or, if a 2-person family, the family has liquid or marketable assets of not more than $3,000.00 in value. The department shall establish comparable liquid or marketable asset amounts for larger family groups. Excluded in making the determination of the value of liquid or marketable assets are the values of: the homestead; clothing; household effects; $1,000.00 of cash surrender value of life insurance, except that if the health of the insured makes continuance of the insurance desirable, the entire cash surrender value of life insurance is excluded from consideration, up to the maximum provided or allowed by federal regulations and in accordance with department rules; the fair market value of tangible personal property used in earning income; an amount paid as judgment or settlement for damages suffered as a result of exposure to Agent Orange as defined in section 5701 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.5701; and a space or plot purchased for the purposes of burial for the person. For individuals related to the title XVI program, the appropriate resource levels and property exemptions specified in title XVI must be used.
(v) Except as provided in section 106b, the individual is not an inmate of a public institution except as a patient in a medical institution.
(vi) The individual meets the eligibility standards for supplemental security income under title XVI or for state supplementation under the act, subject to limitations imposed by the director of the department according to title XIX; or meets the eligibility standards for family independence program benefits; or meets the eligibility standards for optional eligibility groups under title XIX, subject to limitations imposed by the director of the department according to title XIX.
(c) An individual who is eligible under section 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(VIII) of title XIX, also known as the healthy Healthy Michigan plan. This subdivision does not apply if either of the following occurs:
(i) If the department is unable to obtain a federal waiver as provided in section 105d(1) or (20).
(ii) If federal government matching funds for the program described in section 105d are reduced below 100% and annual state savings and other nonfederal net savings associated with the implementation of that program are not sufficient to cover the reduced federal match. The department shall determine and the state budget office shall approve how annual state savings and other nonfederal net savings must be calculated by June 1, 2014. By September 1, 2014, the calculations and methodology used to determine the state and other nonfederal net savings must be submitted to the legislature.
(2) As used in this act:
(a) "Contracted health plan" means a managed care organization with whom the department contracts to provide or arrange for the delivery of comprehensive health care services as authorized under this act.
(b) "Federal poverty guidelines" means the poverty guidelines published annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under its authority to revise the poverty line under section 673(2) of subtitle B of title VI of the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981, 42 USC 9902.
(c) "Medical institution" means a state licensed or approved hospital, nursing home, medical care facility, psychiatric hospital, or other facility or identifiable unit of a listed institution certified as meeting established standards for a nursing home or hospital in accordance with the laws of this state.
(d) "Title XVI" means title XVI of the social security act, 42 USC 1381 to 1383f.
(3) An individual receiving medical assistance under this act, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, shall notify the department and, if the individual is enrolled in a contracted health plan, the contracted health plan if either of the following occurs:
(a) The individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, file a complaint in which the department or the contracted health plan may have a right to recover expenses paid under this act.
(b) The individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, seek to settle an action, without filing a complaint, in which the department or the contracted health plan may have a right to recover expenses paid under this act.
(4) The notice required under subsection (3)(a), along with a copy of the complaint and all documents filed with the complaint, must be provided to the department and, if applicable, the contracted health plan within 30 days after the complaint is filed with the court. The individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel shall certify that notice and a copy of the complaint have been provided to the department and, if applicable, the contracted health plan on the summons and complaint form. This certification must be made in cases with the following case type codes: NF (no-fault automobile insurance), NH (medical malpractice), NI (personal injury, auto negligence), NO (other personal injury), and NP (product liability), and in any other case in which the department or the contracted health plan may have a right to recover expenses paid under this act. The state court administrator shall revise the summons and complaint form to allow certification under this subsection.
(5) The notice required under subsection (3)(b) must be provided in writing to the department and, if applicable, the contracted health plan before the action is settled and must include the proposed settlement terms, including the settlement amount, attorney costs, attorney fees, and Medicaid health plan or Medicare subrogation interest amounts, if applicable.
(6) If notice is not given as required by subsections (3) through to (5), the department or the contracted health plan may file a legal action against the individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, to recover expenses paid under this act. The attorney general or the contracted health plan shall recover any cost or attorney fees associated with a recovery under this subsection.
(7) An attorney who knowingly fails to timely notify the department or the contracted health plan as required by this section is subject, at the discretion of the department, to a $1,000.00 civil fine for each violation. The civil fine is payable to the department and must be deposited in the general fund. The money deposited in the general fund under this subsection may be used to offset the cost to this state for operating the Medicaid program.
(8) The department has first priority against the proceeds of the net recovery from the settlement or judgment in an action settled in which notice has been provided under subsection (3). A contracted health plan has priority immediately after the department in an action settled in which notice has been provided under subsection (3). The department and a contracted health plan shall recover the full cost of expenses paid under this act unless the department or the contracted health plan agrees to accept an amount less than the full amount. If the individual would recover less against the proceeds of the net recovery than the expenses paid under this act, the department or the contracted health plan, and the individual shall share equally in the proceeds of the net recovery. The department or a contracted health plan is not required to pay an attorney fee on the net recovery. As used in this subsection, "net recovery" means the total settlement or judgment less the costs and fees incurred by or on behalf of the individual who obtains the settlement or judgment.
(9) The individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel shall not release the claims of the department or the contracted health plan against third parties or insurers without the consent of the department or the contracted health plan.
(10) All of the following apply with respect to the subrogation interest of the department or the contracted health plan, or both:
(a) Within 30 days of receiving the notice required under this act, the department and, if applicable, a contracted health plan shall provide to the individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, a written itemization of expenses paid under this act for which the third party may be liable.
(b) If the department or a contracted health plan fails to provide the notice required by subdivision (a), the obligation of the individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, to protect the subrogation interest of the department or the contracted health plan, or both if both failed to provide notice, is discharged. The department or the contracted health plan retains the right to pursue recovery through its own means.
(c) A reported subrogation amount is valid unless supplemented by the department or a contracted health plan.
(d) An individual, his or her the individual's representative, or his or her the individual's legal counsel, or all 3, satisfy the obligation to protect the subrogation interest of the department or a contracted health plan if a settlement agreement provides for reimbursement of the total amount of expenses in the last received written itemization from the department or the contracted health plan, reduced by any applicable fees and costs for which a reduction is allowed under statute or administrative rule.
Enacting section 1. Sections 105c and 105f of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.105c and 400.105f, are repealed.
