Medicaid coverage

Some House Republicans are proposing cuts as one way to reduce the federal deficit. Michigan’s Lieutenant Governor was in Grand Rapids today addressing the impacts potential funding cuts could have

Many budget experts, including the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, say Trump’s target of $880 billion in savings is impossible to achieve without big reductions to popular entitlement programs

For the first time in 50 years, nearly a quarter of a million Michigan seniors could have access to Medicaid services thanks to a proposal raising the limit for Medicaid qualifications

Michigan is one of six states to begin or expand their dental coverage; they did so this year.

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement, it won’t disqualify residents who fail to get their paperwork in, until the end of July. This decision comes from new guidance from the Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Medicaid insurance providers in Michigan cannot refuse benefits for sex reassignment surgeries and hormone replacement medications.The governor’s office…