The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reimbursing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for COVID-19 tests.

MICHIGAN, USA — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to change a policy that would raise the asset limit for Medicaid qualifications. Typically, Medicare has a limit averaging around $2,000 for one person. For couples coverage, that limit is just over $3,000.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded $248 million to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as reimbursement for safety measures the state took during the pandemic.

Questions remained Tuesday about which programs would be covered by the federal funding pause announced Monday and which would not.

FEMA and the Michigan State Police/Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division announced on Jan. 21, 2025 that $248,096,445 has been made available to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of March 27,

U.S. senators will soon determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the nation’s next health secretary. If the environmental attorney from California takes the reins of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

A federal waiver will allow able-bodied Michigan adults to keep getting food benefits without meeting work requirements.

Children, infants, rural communities and seniors are some of the groups Protect Our Care Michigan say will be negatively impacted by Medicaid funding cuts.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is preparing to send a second shipment of family planning resources to more than 300 locations across the state through the Take Control of Your Birth Control program.

No policy changes have been made yet, officials said. How a biological mother knew the location of her foster daughter is one lingering question.

We urge MDHHS to withdraw its contract termination notices and return to the negotiating table with the state’s public mental health system in good faith.

The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.