10/02/2025
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to bid out the management of the state’s public mental health system. Advocates, persons served, public officials, and other stakeholders have underscored that this bid out addresses none of the real gaps in the system – chiefly funding and workforce shortages – while hindering access to quality care for Michiganders in need of mental health care and decimating the public system (our Community Mental Health system) that has served them for the past six decades.
Joining with others across the state, we're calling on MDHHS to withdraw the Request for Proposals (RFP), which heavily favors private health insurance companies, that MDHHS issued for the management of the state's public behavioral health managed care system. We recommend, instead, a cooperative system redesign and refinement process that brings MDHHS together with persons served by the public mental health system and their families, the state’s major advocacy groups, the state’s counties, the state’s Community Mental Health (CMH) centers and their public health plan partners, and the private providers in the CMH system.
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"The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has recently released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to bid out the management of the state’s pu...
