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Under Section 2703 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), the Health Home service model is meant to help chronically ill Medicaid and Healthy Michigan Plan beneficiaries manage their conditions through an intensive level of care management and coordination. The Opioid Health Home is centered on whole-person, team-based care, with peer recovery coaches at the center of care.

Program objectives

Opioid Health Home providers are also required to utilize health information technology to coordinate the care of Opioid Health Home patients. Through the delivery of the core health homes services, Opioid Health Home has the following objectives:

• Improve patient outcomes and long-term recovery
• Provide efficient, coordinated, and integrated behavioral and physical healthcare
• Increase access to healthcare
• Increase hospital post-discharge follow up
• Create a continuum of care
• Reduce healthcare costs
• Reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions
• Reduce unnecessary emergency room visits
• Increase the use of health information technology

What are qualifying health conditions?

You must be diagnosed with:

• Opioid Use Disorder

Resources

• Care Plan Components Example OHH
• State Plan Amendment (SPA) 20-1501 Approval Letter
• OHH Handbook
• MSA Policy Bulletin 21-25
• Health Home Provider (HHP) Application
• Contact Information for the Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans and Designated Opioid Health Home Partners
• US DHHS Guidance on Telemedicine for Buprenorphine
  • Use of Telemedicine While Providing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
  • Telemedicine and Prescribing Buprenorphine for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

Health Home Encounter Codes and Rates for OHH 

System Information (coming soon)

Forms and materials

• Poster
• MDHHS-5515 Consent to Share Behavioral Health Information for Care Coordination Purposes
  • Consent Form
  • Michigan Behavioral Health Standard Consent Form Webpage

Questions?

Comments or questions about the Opioid Health Home can be sent to: MDHHS-BHDDAHealthHomes@michigan.gov.