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Michigan Advocate Details State's Medicaid Maternal Health Strategy
In an interview-style piece, Ta'Sheena Williams, Policy Director of the Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health, discusses the state's approach to maternal and child health policy. She highlights Michigan's work to strengthen Medicaid coverage and reimbursement, expand community-based care models, address racial disparities in maternal outcomes, and invest in prevention and maternal health systems. The piece reflects on policy choices Michigan has made rather than announcing a new action or rule change.
Why it mattersState Medicaid agencies and maternal health advocates can look to Michigan's reimbursement and community-care strategies as a model for addressing maternal health disparities within Medicaid programs.