Bill Text: MI SB0649 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Human services; medical services; certain pilot projects for specialty behavioral health benefits; provide for. Amends sec. 109f of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.109f).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-12-28 - Assigned Pa 224'17 With Immediate Effect [SB0649 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0649-Chaptered.html
Act No. 224
Public Acts of 2017
Approved by the Governor
December 19, 2017
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 20, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 20, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
Introduced by Senator Shirkey
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 649
AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 109f (MCL 400.109f), as amended by 2005 PA 84.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 109f. (1) The department shall support the use of Medicaid funds for specialty services and supports for eligible Medicaid beneficiaries with a serious mental illness, developmental disability, serious emotional disturbance, or substance use disorder. Medicaid-covered specialty services and supports shall be managed and delivered by specialty prepaid health plans chosen by the department. The specialty services and supports shall be carved out from the basic Medicaid health care benefits package.
(2) Specialty prepaid health plans are Medicaid managed care organizations as described in section 1903(m)(1)(A) of title XIX, 42 USC 1396b, and are responsible for providing defined inpatient services, outpatient hospital services, physician services, other specified Medicaid state plan services, and additional services approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under section 1915(b)(3) of title XIX, 42 USC 1396n.
(3) This section does not apply to a pilot project authorized under section 298(3) of article X of 2017 PA 107.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
