Michigan Independent Providers Association
Your Voice for Patient Choice
We are the only statewide organization dedicated to promoting the interests of independently owned businesses engaged in home-based health care products and services. Our Members are independent providers of home medical equipment, home infusion, home health care, and orthotic and prosthetic services. Homecare facts...read more
• Promoting Patient Access advocacy agenda
• Advancing Quality Care through Fair Competition
• Representing Community-Based, Independent Providers
• Helping patients understand their rights and coverage
We believe health care organizations that refer patients for home health services while also providing those same home services enjoy an advantage in the marketplace. This advantage reduces competition and diminishes services for patients. That’s why Patient Choice is our Passion.
Independent Providers…
•“Independently owned” – not owned by hospitals or physicians.
• Licensed and accredited health care providers
• Deliver life-sustaining or technologically sophisticated Services and Equipment
• Focus on keeping patients in their homes
• Vary in size; may operate regionally and/or with multiple locations
• Employ approximately 6,000 state residents - a significant economic partner for our state
• Serve approximately ten million patients in our communities
• Are Community service volunteers involved in SleepWalk 2011, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Diabetes Association, hospices, free health screenings, senior centers, and more.
…of Home Health Care, Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics/Orthotics, Rehab, and Infusion
• Equipment and services prescribed by physicians to treat a patient’s medical condition
• Mobility Aides (canes, walkers, commodes, wheelchairs)
• Supplies (incontinence, wound care)
• Apnea Monitors/Sleep Therapy
• Infusion Pumps for Drug Therapy and Pain Management
• In-Home Patient Lifts
• Suction Machines and Ventilation Devices