The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced Wednesday it has renewed Medicaid or Healthy Michigan plan coverage for 150,577 people whose eligibility was up for redetermination in September.
To help Medicaid beneficiaries with the renewal process and ensure they keep their health care coverage, MDHHS is partnering with The Salvation Army Great Lakes Harbor Light System to host a weeklong Medicaid Renewal event in Detroit from Monday, Oct. 23 through Friday, Oct. 27.
Announcement of the event comes as MDHHS shares its monthly update on Medicaid renewals.
“MDHHS and valued partners like The Salvation Army continue to do all that we can to preserve Medicaid coverage for qualifying Michigan families,” said MDHHS Director Elizabeth Hertel. “We want to be sure that as many Michiganders as possible can continue to receive Medicaid coverage so that they can keep their families healthy.”
During the Medicaid Renewal event, information about how people can renew their coverage will be available at all stops of The Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread Trucks that feed people who are in need. Details are on The Salvation Army Great Lakes Harbor Light website.
Medicaid and Healthy Michigan Plan beneficiaries must renew their coverage over the next year to comply with federal legislation that requires states to resume the redetermination of Medicaid eligibility. Annual renewals were paused for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Michigan annual renewals are being staggered to take place monthly through May 2024.
The latest data on Medicaid renewals can be found on MDHHS’ online dashboard.
The dashboard – which is updated monthly – shows that 616,172 people have been renewed to date. The department is awaiting completed enrollment forms from another 98,395 people who were up for renewal in September and have until the end of October to return their paperwork.
There were 14,267 people who were disenrolled in September because they were no longer eligible and 2,775 whose eligibility was not renewed for procedural reasons – such as not providing requested verification documents like driver’s license, pay stubs and bank statements.
MDHHS can reinstate eligibility back to the termination date for people who were disenrolled based on a procedural reason and are subsequently found to be eligible for Medicaid during a 90-day reconsideration period.
MDHHS advises all Medicaid enrollees to check their renewal month at Michigan.gov/MIBridges. MDHHS will send monthly renewal notices four months before a beneficiary’s renewal date and follow up with text messages, phone calls, and emails during their renewal month.
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