Division - COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Section 400.45 - Creation, powers, duties, and composition of county family independence agency; powers and duties of family independence agency board; offices; salary and expenses; prohibition; appointment and oath of board members; appointment and qualifications of directors, employees, and assistants; evaluation of county director; availability of writings to public
Section 400.46 - County social services board; administration of powers and duties; appointment and terms of members; oath; vacancies; conducting business at public meeting; notice; quorum; meetings; chairperson; effect of failure to attend meetings; compensation and expenses; availability of writings to public
Section 400.47 - Organization of district department of social welfare and medical relief; powers and duties vested in district social welfare board and medical advisory council; appointment, qualifications, and terms of members; applicability of references; chairperson; conducting business at public meeting; notice; availability of writings to public
Section 400.48 - Organization of counties into single administrative unit; appointment of director
Section 400.49 - Director of county or district board; employment; duties; assistants; requirements; compensation and expenses; supplementary salary
Section 400.50 - County employee; unauthorized transfer of public relief recipient, misdemeanor
Section 400.51 - County board; executive heads of institutions and assistants, appointment, compensation and expenses
Section 400.52 - County department; rules and regulations; review, copies, filing; audit of case records; withholding fund
Section 400.53 - County board; cooperation with state department
Section 400.54 - County board; prevention of social disabilities, restoration of individuals to self support
Section 400.55 - Administration of public welfare program by county department
Section 400.55a - General assistance; eligibility of applicant; determination; failure of employable person to participate in approved project or to accept employment
Section 400.55b - [Repealed]
Section 400.55c - [Repealed]
Section 400.56 - [Repealed]
Section 400.56a, 400.56b - [Repealed]
Section 400.56c-400.56g - [Repealed]
Section 400.56i - Individuals having history of domestic violence; establishment and enforcement of standards and procedures; certification by governor; collection and compilation of data; annual report
Section 400.57 - Definitions
Section 400.57a - Family independence program; establishment and administration; purpose; establishment of certain requirements by department; assistance to certain program groups prohibited; determination of financial eligibility
Section 400.57b - Family independence program assistance; eligibility requirements generally; requirements applicable to minor parent and minor parent's child; recipient applying for supplemental security income and seeking exemption from PATH program; evaluation and assessment process; contracts; audit; member of family independence program assistance group not meeting attendance requirements of MCL 380.1561; implementation of policy
Section 400.57c - Application for assistance by minor parent; duties of department
Section 400.57d - Conduct of weekly orientation sessions; development of family self-sufficiency plan; compliance required; penalties; reassessment of recipient's eligibility
Section 400.57e - Family self-sufficiency plan; execution; development; contents; identification of goals; monitoring compliance with plan
Section 400.57f - Agreement with Michigan economic development corporation or successor entity; administration of PATH program; eligibility; exemptions; temporary exemption; disabled individual; rules; subsection (6) inapplicable after December 31, 2013; "PATH" program defined
Section 400.57g - Failure to comply with plan; penalties; "noncompliance" defined; notice; good cause; period of time recipient ineligible; denial or termination of benefits; "good cause" defined
Section 400.57h - [Repealed]
Section 400.57i - Rent vendoring program; certification by landlord that requirements met; violation of housing code; termination of participation; eviction prohibited; delinquency or nonpayment of property taxes
Section 400.57k - [Repealed]
Section 400.57l - Feasibility of substance abuse testing program; report
Section 400.57o - [Repealed]
Section 400.57p - Counting certain months toward cumulative total of 48 months; exclusion
Section 400.57q - Earned income disregard
Section 400.57r - Family independence program assistance; limitation
Section 400.57s - [Repealed]
Section 400.57t - [Repealed]
Section 400.57u - Reports
Section 400.57v - Automatic teller machines located in casinos, casino enterprises, liquor stores, or adult entertainment establishments; blocking access to cash benefits from Michigan bridge cards; definitions
Section 400.57y - Suspicion-based substance abuse screening and testing; pilot program; use of empirically validated substance abuse screening tool; requirement that applicant or recipient take substance abuse test; refusal; cost of administering test
Section 400.57z - First positive test for use of controlled substance; referral to department-designated community mental health entity; second or subsequent positive test for use of controlled substance; applicant or recipient ineligible for assistance; time period for pilot program; report; age of applicant or recipient; definitions
Section 400.58 - County medical care facility; program of care and treatment; medical treatment and nursing care; special treatment; building; review of proposals and plans; inspection; enforcement
Section 400.58a - County medical care facility; admittance
Section 400.58b - County medical care facility; eligibility for care; state aid recipient; admission of patients; state and federal aid for capital expenditures; special tax
Section 400.58c - County medical care facility; patients with contagious disease, isolation
Section 400.59 - Applications for aid, relief or assistance; forms, ascertainment of settlement, charge to county of domicile; temporary relief to persons with no settlement
Section 400.59a - Return of person to county of residence; deportation to another nation; expense; reimbursement from county of residence
Section 400.59b - Notification of county of residence; denial of settlement, notice
Section 400.59c - Domicile and legal settlement cases; appeal, determination by state department
Section 400.59d - Domicile and legal settlement cases; appeal; insufficient evidence
Section 400.59e - Domicile and legal settlement cases; notices, evidence, bills for aid; rules and regulations
Section 400.59f - Joint plan for economic rehabilitation of aid recipient; removal from county of settlement
Section 400.59g - Joint plan for economic rehabilitation of aid recipient; disagreement, appeal to director
Section 400.60 - Fraudulent device to obtain relief; liability; misdemeanor; penalty; information to be provided by recipients
Section 400.60a - Program of computer data matching; development and implementation; report
Section 400.61 - Violations; penalties; cessation of payments during imprisonment
Section 400.62 - Relief or assistance; effect of amendment or repeal; no claim for compensation
Section 400.63 - Aid, relief, or assistance; nonassignability; breach of lease agreement; conveyance of amount to judgment creditor; federal waiver; processing fee; biennial report; "recipient" defined
Section 400.63a - Contract awards to specific organizations
Section 400.64 - Applications and records considered public records; inspection; public access; restriction; uttering, publishing, or using names, addresses, or other information; confidentiality; alphabetical index file; inquiry as to name or amount of assistance; making available certain information to public utility or municipality; disclosure of information; violation; penalty; notice of assistance to deserted or abandoned child; documents, reports, or records from another agency or organization
Section 400.65 - Hearings within county department; rules for procedure; review by board
Section 400.66 - Finality of decision as to relief or medical care; investigation by department
Section 400.66a - Hospitalization for recipient; rules of financial eligibility; reimbursement; "hospitalization" defined; filing agreement, statement, or schedule of charges; report of treatment; statement of expenses; charges for special nurses; expenses after discharge
Section 400.66b - Hospitalization; application; emergency care, intercounty payments; arbitration of payment disputes
Section 400.66c - Hospitalization; reimbursement of county expense
Section 400.66d - Finality of determination of ineligibility for hospitalization
Section 400.66e - Receipt of authorized patients by university hospital; duties of admitting officer; treatment; compensation; insurance; affidavit of expenses; report on condition of patient and expense incurred
Section 400.66f - [Repealed]
Section 400.66g - Expenses of medical or surgical treatment and hospital care of child; reimbursement of health care provider
Section 400.66h - Hospitalization; consent to surgical operation, medical treatment; first aid
Section 400.66i - Reimbursement of hospital and state; reimbursement principles; eligibility information as basis of reimbursement; county reimbursement rate; annual adjustment; nonresidents; rules of financial eligibility
Section 400.66j - Patient care management system; establishment; certification; procedures; recertification; rates of reimbursement and length of hospital stay; contracts; report; system
Section 400.66k - Office; creation; purpose; duties; powers; appeals procedure
Section 400.66l - Guidelines for referrals to substance abuse prevention services or substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services
Section 400.66m - Invoices for reimbursement
Section 400.66n - Appropriations
Section 400.67 - Relief financed by federal funds; denial or revocation of application, appeal, hearing, investigation; decision
Section 400.68 - Application by county board for state and federal moneys
Section 400.68a - County of settlement; itemized statement of relief expense; items of undetermined value
Section 400.69 - Estimate of funds for social welfare; accounting as to receipts and expenditures; district department of social welfare
Section 400.70 - Appropriation for expenses by county board of supervisors
Section 400.71 - Distinction between township, city, and county poor; abolition
Section 400.72 - [Repealed]
Section 400.73 - [Repealed]
Section 400.73a - County treasurer as custodian of moneys; creation of social welfare fund; deposits; requirements; financial practices
Section 400.74 - Child care and social welfare funds; disbursement; bond; purchases made locally
Section 400.75 - County board of auditors; authority
Section 400.76 - Liability of relatives for support; action for reimbursement of county granting aid; duties of prosecuting attorney; reciprocal enforcement
Section 400.77 - Reimbursement of county for welfare relief; relatives or estate; agreements; hospital care, exception; county employees; collection by counties
Section 400.77a - Old age assistance, aid to dependent children, welfare relief; inconsequential earnings
Section 400.77b - [Repealed]
Section 400.78 - Grants and gifts; acceptance by county board; use of funds; duty of prosecuting attorney
Section 400.79 - Prosecuting attorney; duty to give counsel to board or director
Section 400.80 - County social welfare board; reports to state department
Section 400.81 - County board; seal; publication of rules and regulations; records and papers as evidence; body corporate, powers
Section 400.82 - County board; case examinations, witnesses, attendance and testimony; circuit court enforcement
Section 400.83 - Obtaining information from financial institution, department of treasury, employment security commission, employer, or former employer; demand or subpoena; definition; computer data matching system; confidentiality
Section 400.84 - State department; jurisdiction over district and county departments, rules and regulations
Section 400.85 - County superintendents of poor; transfer of powers and duties to county department of social welfare
Section 400.86 - County departments; powers and duties transferred
Section 400.87 - Veterans' relief act not repealed
Section 400.88 - [Repealed]
Section 400.90 - Political activity or use of position by officers and employes prohibited; penalty
Section 400.100 - Retirement system service credits; continuation by employees of city or county department when transferred to state department
Section 400.101 - Distribution of general relief funds; effective date; state civil service system, membership
Section 400.102 - Nonduty disability retirement allowance or death benefits; eligibility, conditions
Section 400.103 - Agreements as to eligibility for supplementary benefits and medical assistance
Section 400.105 - Program for medical assistance for medically indigent; establishment; administration; responsibility for determination of eligibility; delegation of authority; definitions
Section 400.105a - Written information setting forth eligibility requirements for participation in program of medical assistance; updating; copies
Section 400.105b - Medical assistance recipients who practice positive health behaviors; creation of incentives; creation of pay-for-performance incentives for contracted Medicaid health maintenance organizations; establishment of preferred product and service formulary program for durable medical equipment; financial support for electronic health records; conflict with federal statute or regulation prohibited
Section 400.105c - [Repealed]
Section 400.105d - Medical assistance program; approval; acceptance of Medicare rates by hospital as payments in full; enrollment plan; pharmaceutical benefit; financial incentives; performance bonus incentive pool; distribution of funds from performance bonus incentive pool; substance abuse disorders; availability of data to vendor; definitions
Section 400.105e - Appropriations
Section 400.105f - [Repealed]
Section 400.105g - Remote patient monitoring services; definition
Section 400.105h - Telemedicine; eligibility; definitions
Section 400.105i - Medicaid managed care organization; pharmacy benefit managers; contract requirements; implementation date
Section 400.105j - Pharmacy benefit manager; reimbursement; reporting requirements; confidentiality
Section 400.106 - Medically indigent individual; definitions; notice of legal action; requirements; violation; civil fine; recovery of expenses by the department or contracted health plan; priority against proceeds; release of claims; subrogation of interests
Section 400.106a - "Michigan freedom to work for individuals with disabilities law" as short title of section; medical assistance to individuals with earned income; establishment of program; limitation; permitted acts; premium; basis; sliding fee scale; revenue; limitation; waiver; definitions
Section 400.106b - Suspension of medical assistance; conditions; inmate residing in public institution; redetermination of eligibility; reinstatement; limitation; applicability; defintions
Section 400.107 - Medically indigent; financial eligibility; income
Section 400.107a - Workforce engagement requirements; definitions
Section 400.107b - Workforce engagement requirements waiver; implementation; survey; compliance review
Section 400.108 - Medical or dental services to which medically indigent entitled; certification; services to eligible children
Section 400.109 - Medical services provided under act; notice and approval of proposed change in method or level of reimbursement; definitions
Section 400.109a - Abortion as service provided with public funds to welfare recipient; prohibition; exception; policy
Section 400.109b - Modification of formula for indigent care volume price adjustor
Section 400.109c - Home- or community-based services; eligibility; safeguards; written plan of care; available services; per capita expenditure; waiver; rules; report; changing plan of care; hearing; appeal; expansion of program; implementation of program by department of community health and office of services to the aging
Section 400.109d - Services relating to performing abortions; prohibitions
Section 400.109e - Definitions; reimbursement for performance of abortion; prohibition; violation; penalty; enforcement; scope of section
Section 400.109f - Medicaid-covered specialty services and supports; management and delivery; specialty prepaid health plans
Section 400.109g - Specialty services panel; creation; purpose; membership; qualifications; terms; vacancy; conflict of interest; advisory capacity; meetings
Section 400.109h - Prior authorization for certain prescription drugs not required; drugs under contract between department and health maintenance organization; contracts with managed care organizations; definitions
Section 400.109i - Locally or regionally based single point of entry agencies for long-term care
Section 400.109j - Designation of single point of entry agencies; limitation
Section 400.109k - Compliance of certain community mental health services programs with MCL 330.1204 and 330.1205
Section 400.109l - Process for maximum allowable cost pricing reconsiderations; use by department of community health and contracted health plans; completion; notification to pharmacy
Section 400.109m - Individual as victim of human trafficking violation; medical assistance benefits; "human trafficking violation" defined
Section 400.109n - Behavioral health treatment services: autism spectrum disorder; re-evaluation and eligibility requirements
Section 400.110 - Medical services for residents absent from state
Section 400.110a - Funding; rural hospital access pool; limitations; definitions
Section 400.111 - Responsibility for proper handling of medical case; actions authorized to meet medical needs of recipient
Section 400.111a - Policy and procedures for implementation and enforcement of state and federal laws; consultation; guidelines; forms and instructions; "prudent buyer" defined; criteria for selection of providers; notice of change in policy, procedure, form, or instruction; power of director; informal conference; imposition of specific conditions and controls; notice; hearings; examination of claims; imposition of claims review process; books and records of provider; confidentiality; immunity from liability; prohibited payments or recovery for payments; making payments and collecting overpayments; development of specifications; estimated cost and charge information; notice to provider of incorrect payment
Section 400.111b - Requirements as condition of participation by provider
Section 400.111c - Duties of director in carrying out authority conferred by MCL 400.111a(7)(d)
Section 400.111d - Participation as provider subject to denial, suspension, termination, or probation; actions of director; claims precluded; exceptions; consultations; hearing
Section 400.111e - Grounds for action by director
Section 400.111f - Emergency action; order; circumstances; extension of emergency action; "most recent 12-month period" defined; consultation with peer review advisory committees, professionals, or experts; order for summary suspension of payments; hearings; decision; meeting not required
Section 400.111g - Prosecution not collaterally estopped or barred by decision or order; hearing; decision
Section 400.111h - Applicability of MCL 400.111a to 400.111g
Section 400.111i - Timely claims processing and payment procedure; external review; report; definitions
Section 400.111j - Prior authorization for medical services or equipment; request by provider; approval or rejection; request for additional information; time period limitations; exception; certain claims not subject to prior authorization; rules; reimbursement system; automated payment system; vendor payments; waiver of requirement for prior authorization; automated records; limitation of authorization; definitions
Section 400.111k - Lead screening on children enrolled in medicaid
Section 400.111l - Children participants in WIC program; lead testing required
Section 400.111m - Audit of Medicaid cost reports filed by nursing facility; on-site audit; customer satisfaction survey; availability of documentation; auditor education; annual report
Section 400.111n - Effective date of policy changes affecting Medicaid cost reports
Section 400.112 - Medical services; contract with private agencies as fiscal agents
Section 400.112a - Liability for medicaid services; referral to department of treasury as state debt; claims against tax refund as secondary to claims for child support; "medicaid" defined
Section 400.112b - Definitions
Section 400.112c - Michigan long-term care partnership program; establishment; purpose; eligibility; reciprocal agreements; consideration of assets; receipt of asset disregard; single point of entry agencies; notice of policy provisions; posting certain information
Section 400.112d - [Repealed]
Section 400.112e - Rules
Section 400.112e[1] - Payments not required; amounts constituting payment in full
Section 400.112g - Michigan medicaid estate recovery program; establishment and operation by department of community health; development of voluntary estate preservation program; report; establishment of estate recovery program; waivers and approvals; duties of department; lien
Section 400.112h - "Estate" and "property" defined
Section 400.112i - Use of revenue collected through Michigan Medicaid estate recovery activities; treatment of remaining balances
Section 400.112j - Rules; report
Section 400.112k - Applicability of program to certain medical assistance recipients
Section 400.113 - "Executive director" and "office" defined
Section 400.114 - Office of children and youth services; creation as single purpose entity; duties of office; appointment, duties, and compensation of executive director; rules
Section 400.115 - Services to children and youth
Section 400.115a - Office of children and youth services; duties generally
Section 400.115b - Responsibility for children committed by juvenile division of probate court or court of general criminal jurisdiction; children and youth services and programs; services, actions, and rules as to neglect, exploitation, abuse, cruelty to, or abandonment of children; adoption of nonresident children; investigation; parent fees; policy regarding investigations and foster care service; foster care maintenance payments
Section 400.115c - Placement of children in family homes; approval or disapproval; information; supervision
Section 400.115d - Plan for establishment, maintenance, and operation of regional facilities to detain children
Section 400.115e - Detention home; assumption of administration, operation, and facilities; agreement; state classified service
Section 400.115f - Definitions
Section 400.115g - Support subsidy; payment; requirements; determination of amount; maximum amount; form to be signed by adoptive parent; presentment of first offer by adoptive parent; acceptance or counteroffer by department; completion of certification process
Section 400.115h - Medical subsidy; payment; requirements; prohibited payment; determination of amount; third party payments; waiver of subsection (3); time of request; payment for treatment of mental or emotional condition
Section 400.115i - Adoption assistance agreement; redetermined adoption assistance agreement; medical subsidy agreement; copy; modification or discontinuance; legal status, rights, and responsibilities not affected; report
Section 400.115j - Adoption assistance, medical subsidy, or redetermined adoption assistance; extension; continuation
Section 400.115k - Appeal of determination; notice of rights of appeal
Section 400.115l - Child with special needs; agreement for payment of nonrecurring adoption expenses; limitation; signature; filing claims; notice to potential claimants
Section 400.115m - Information describing adoption process and adoption assistance and medical subsidy programs; preparation; distribution; contents
Section 400.115n - Escape of juvenile from facility or residence; notification; definitions
Section 400.115o - Residential care bed space for juveniles; "appropriate juvenile residential care provider" defined
Section 400.115p - Local elected official or employee as advisor to juvenile facility; "elected official" and "juvenile facility" defined
Section 400.115q - Field investigation or home visit; training program; documentation of safety risk; completion with another department employee or law enforcement officer
Section 400.115r - Interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance; citation of MCL 400.115r and 400.115s
Section 400.115s - Interstate compacts; authorization; force and effect; contents
Section 400.115t - Redetermined adoption assistance; request; requirements; hearing; effect of original agreement; determination; basis; adoption assistance agreement in place before January 1, 2015; limitation on number of requests; adoptee adopted from foster care between ages of 0 and 18 and finalized after January 1, 2015
Section 400.116 - Duties of department with respect to juvenile court probation staff; consultation and assistance services; plan for voluntary transfer of county juvenile court probation staff to department
Section 400.117 - [Repealed]
Section 400.117a - [Effective until 10/1/2024] Definitions; juvenile justice funding system; rules; distribution of money for cost of juvenile justice services; reimbursement for costs; limitation; request for payment; offset, chargeback, or reimbursement liability; guidelines; reports; reporting system
Section 400.117a - [Effective 10/1/2024] Definitions; juvenile justice funding system; rules; distribution of money for cost of juvenile justice services; request for payment; offset, chargeback, or reimbursement liability; guidelines; reports; reporting system; county duties; rules; performance measures
Section 400.117b - Office of children and youth services; powers generally
Section 400.117c - County treasurer as custodian of money; creation and maintenance of child care fund; deposits in fund; use of fund; separate account for fund; subaccounts; plan and budget for funding foster care services; records of juvenile justice services and expenditures; child care fund reimbursable claims; evidence of compliance with parameters; applicability of section to county juvenile agency
Section 400.117d - [Repealed]
Section 400.117e - Annual basic grant of state money; eligibility; use of basic grant; criteria and conditions for basic grant; money for early intervention to treat problems of delinquency and neglect
Section 400.117f - Joint program for providing juvenile justice services
Section 400.117g - County block grant; calculation; adjustment; deduction
Section 400.117h - Appeal
Section 400.117i - Raise the age fund; creation within state treasury; deposit of money or other assets; investment; money remaining at end of fiscal year; administrator; expenditures; report of expenditures; request for reimbursement
Section 400.117k - [Effective 10/1/2024] Juvenile justice residential per diem rate; adjustment
Section 400.118 - Youth advisory commission; creation; appointment, qualifications, terms, and compensation of members
Section 400.119 - Youth advisory commission; duties
Section 400.119a - Departments and agencies of executive branch of government; duties
Section 400.119b - Report by office to governor and legislature; contents; review of effectiveness of office; report and recommendations
Section 400.120, 400.121 - [Repealed]
Section 400.122 - [Repealed]