Managed Healthcare Executive January 4, 2020
Michigan’s Medicaid expansion has proven successful in expanding healthcare access, according to two new studies.
The findings appear in two papers published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine by several members of the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP) evaluation team from the University of Michigan (U-M) Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI).
The studies are based on results from a survey of more than 4,000 Michiganders, out of the more than 1 million who have gotten coverage from the HMP since its launch in 2014. The program currently covers more than 642,000 state residents who make less than about $16,000 a year for an individual, or $33,000 for a family of four. Among those surveyed, over two-thirds are...