Current Senior Issues
MI Choice Medicaid Waiver
The MI Choice Waiver is a home and community-based program for eligible adults and adults with disabilities who meet income and asset criteria to receive long-term supports and services in their home.
PERSON-CENTERED
Most older adults and people with disabilities want to receive care at home rather than an institutional setting. MI Choice makes this possible for over 15,000 Michigan residents.
Michigan spends only 43% of Medicaid LTSS funds on Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS), far below the national average of HCBS spending of 55%. Rebalancing Michigan’s long-term care system by increasing access to the MI Choice program supports individual choice.
QUALITY
MI Choice participants report high levels of satisfaction with the program, with 90% of participants expressing satisfaction with their care. The AAAWM MI Choice program rates highly in measures of clinical quality, as demonstrated by our NCQA Accreditation in Case Management for Long-Term Services and Supports.
COST-EFFECTIVE
The MI Choice program serves nursing facility-eligible participants at a cost of $88.31 per day, which is 58% less than the Medicaid nursing facility daily rate of $208.50 per day, allowing 2.4 participants to be served for the cost of one nursing home resident.
