A Partnership Built for This Moment

 By Meredith Moon, Head of Partnerships, Pointcare

There are partnerships that look good on paper, and then there are partnerships that feel inevitable. The kind where you connect with another organization and realize that you share not just a goal but a conviction.

Our partnership with the Michigan Primary Care Association is exactly that.

This partnership is built on a foundation of genuine alignment. Not alignment in the vague, corporate sense, but alignment on what actually matters: keeping Medicaid patients covered and helping community health centers remain financially healthy and resilient during one of the most challenging periods they've ever faced.

The Organization Behind the Mission

Among their peers, the Michigan Primary Care Association is widely regarded as one of the strongest PCAs in the country. From my perspective, that reputation is rooted in MPCA's leadership. Much of their team has spent their careers inside this work, many starting in enrollment and coverage roles and building their understanding of the Medicaid landscape from the ground up. When MPCA speaks to their health centers, they aren't speaking from a distance. They're speaking from experience, from the ground floor of what it actually means to connect a patient to coverage and fight to keep that coverage intact.

That matters more than ever as H.R. 1 brings the largest cuts to Medicaid in the program's 60-year history. For Michigan specifically, up to 700,000 residents could lose coverage, and the state faces losing as much as $2 billion in federal Medicaid funding annually. On top of that, new work reporting requirements and more frequent eligibility redeterminations will layer significant administrative burden onto health centers that are already stretched thin. 

MPCA has been actively preparing Michigan health centers by educating them on H.R. 1's provisions, helping them navigate implementation timelines, and advocating on their behalf at every level. That proactive orientation is precisely what health centers need from their partners right now.

Why This Partnership Matters

We spent months in conversation with MPCA before this partnership came together, allowing us to understand not just what MPCA does, but how they think, what they prioritize, and what they expect from the organizations they bring into their network.

We are honored to have been selected as their partner for proactive and automated coverage management, and it’s not a responsibility we take lightly. The CHCs MPCA serves are on the front lines of what is coming, and our work together is oriented entirely around making sure those health centers, and the patients who depend on them, are as prepared as possible.

To make Pointcare’s services as accessible as possible, Michigan health centers will have access to pre-negotiated pricing through the MPCA partnership, so that cost is not a barrier to getting ahead of this.

For Michigan Health Centers: Let's Talk

This work matters deeply to us. We are committed to Michigan's health centers, to the patients they serve, and to doing this work alongside an organization whose people have lived this mission from the very beginning.

If you are a Michigan community health center and want to understand how to prepare your organization for the coverage management challenges ahead, please reach out. We're hosting an introductory webinar on Friday, June 26th, specifically for Michigan health centers, and it's a great place to start the conversation.

Register and learn more through the MPCA partnership page →

Meredith Moon

Head of Partnerships

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