Medicaid appeals in Michigan: hearing deadline and keeping benefits
Michigan Medicaid (including the Healthy Michigan Plan and MIChild): you have 90 days to ask for a fair hearing.
If your Medicaid is being reduced, suspended or ended, your benefits continue until the hearing decision if MDHHS receives your hearing request within 10 calendar days of the date of the notice (next workday if the 10th day is a weekend or holiday).
Checked against official sources: October 30, 2026.
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Medicaid (Michigan Medicaid (including the Healthy Michigan Plan and MIChild)) denials in Michigan
- Medicaid agency
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)
- Who holds the hearing
Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules (MOAHR), Benefit Services Division, for MDHHS
- Hearing deadline
90 days
The date of the written notice. The request must be received within the 90 calendar days (if the last day is a weekend or holiday, the next business day).
- How to ask for a hearing
- Form: DCH-0018 Request for Hearing (eligibility decisions by MDHHS), DCH-0092 Request for Hearing (Medicaid service issues), or MDHHS-5617 Request for State Fair Hearing (managed care plan actions). A form should come with your notice. The request must be in writing and signed; a fax or copy of your signature is accepted.
- In person: Eligibility decisions (Medicaid eligibility, Healthy Michigan Plan): deliver the signed request to your local MDHHS office, labeled Attention Hearings Coordinator.
- Mail: Eligibility decisions: mail to your local MDHHS office, Attention Hearings Coordinator. Medicaid service decisions and managed care plan appeals: Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules for MDHHS, P.O. Box 30763, Lansing, MI 48909.
- Fax: Eligibility decisions: fax to your local MDHHS office (Attention Hearings Coordinator). Medicaid service decisions and managed care plan appeals: MOAHR fax 517-763-0146.
- Mail address
Medicaid service and managed care hearings: Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules for MDHHS, P.O. Box 30763, Lansing, MI 48909. Eligibility hearings: your local MDHHS office, Attention Hearings Coordinator.
- What to include
Your request must be in writing and signed by you or your legal guardian. Say what action (or lack of action) you disagree with, the type of service, and the agency involved. Tell MOAHR in writing the name of anyone who will represent you.
- Keeping your benefits during the appeal
If your Medicaid is being reduced, suspended or ended, your benefits continue until the hearing decision if MDHHS receives your hearing request within 10 calendar days of the date of the notice (next workday if the 10th day is a weekend or holiday). For Medicaid, MDHHS policy also keeps your benefits if your request arrives before the date the change takes effect. If you lose, you may have to repay the cost of those benefits.
Law: 42 CFR 431.230; 42 CFR 431.200 et seq
- When the hearing is held
MOAHR mails you a notice of the hearing date, time and location. Many hearings are held by phone; you can ask for an in-person hearing.
- Faster (expedited) hearing
In unusual circumstances an expedited hearing can be requested; write "Expedited Hearing" at the top of the hearing request.
Law: 42 CFR 431.200 et seq
Medicaid health plan (managed care) in Michigan
- Appeal to the plan first
If the notice comes from your Medicaid Health Plan, MI Health Link plan, Community Mental Health/Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan, MI Choice waiver agency or Healthy Kids Dental, you must first file an internal appeal with that plan. If the plan denies your appeal, you can ask MOAHR for a state fair hearing with form MDHHS-5617. Federal managed care deadlines apply.
Law: BAM 600 (5-1-2026), MSA Hearings; BAM 42 CFR 438.402, 438.408
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Sources
The official sources for Michigan are listed on the Michigan page.