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Article by Stefanie Cole published November 2016 in Michigan medicine
Michigan’s baseline Medicaid eligibility for non-disabled adults uses roughly 133–138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) — commonly translated into about $18,000 a year for a single adult and roughly...
Michigan has recently raised long‑term care Medicaid countable asset limits from the decades‑old $2,000 cap to roughly $9,600 for single applicants and comparable increases for couples, with the new t...
Michigan’s medically needy or “spend‑down” pathway lets people whose income exceeds Medicaid limits become eligible by applying unpaid medical bills against the excess; the state’s 2026 long‑term care...
Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) will accept many unpaid medical bills toward a Medicaid “spend‑down” but commonly denies or refuses to count bills that lack required identif...
Michigan’s Medicaid expansion (the Healthy Michigan Plan) generally covers adults with household incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), and eligibility is calculated using Modified Adj...
Michigan applies the federal “5% income disregard” primarily through MAGI-based Medicaid rules by effectively allowing applicants to be tested against a threshold that is 5 percentage points higher th...
Michigan raised the long-term care asset threshold above the old $2,000 floor: for nursing‑home eligibility and the MI Choice waiver the recent policy changes set single-person countable asset limits ...