LANSING, MI (AP)-- Rehabilitation facilities and in-home providers who help people catastrophically injured in car crashes could apply for $25 million in state aid under legislation sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Starting Friday there will be a 45-percent reduction in what auto insurers can be billed for post-acute services that do not have a Medicare code. The Republican-led Legislature and Democratic Gov. Whitmer slashed the reimbursements as part of a 2019 law to lower drivers’ premiums by containing medical costs and letting them forgo unlimited benefits.
Brain injury clinics say the funding is inadequate and a new fee schedule should be changed.
