Step 1
Check eligibility
See if you qualify in
2 minutes.See if you qualify in
2 minutes.
Medicaid Family Caregiver Pay
Get Paid to Care for Family With Michigan Medicaid
The hardest job you've ever had isn't one you applied for.
Now you're lifting them out of bed.
Steadying them as they walk. Bathing them — every single day.
That's not just helping out — that's healthcare work.
And it can pay — up to $25,000/year*
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*Eligibility and payment amounts vary.
Michigan Medicaid Caregiver Programs
You're doing paid care.
You're just not getting paid yet.
Kinwell hires eligible caregivers for Michigan Medicaid members — through the Michigan Home Help Program or MI Coordinated Health — with pay up to $25,000/year.*
Eligible care includes:
Mobility
Transferring
Toileting
Eating
Bathing
Dressing
Grooming
You qualify if:
Your loved one
- Has Michigan Medicaid
- Needs daily, hands-on help at home
You
- Are 18+ and a relative or friend
- Not a spouse or minor's parent
Get My Pay Estimate
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*Eligibility and payment amounts vary.
Accepted Coverage
Michigan Medicaid
How It Works
You provide the care.
Kinwell provides the paycheck.
Kinwell hires and pays eligible family caregivers based on Medicaid-approved care hours.
Most eligible caregivers start getting paid within 1–2 months.
Step 2
Sign paperwork
Your loved one signs the paperwork online.Your loved one signs the paperwork online.
Step 3
Clinical review
A clinician confirms medical necessity.A clinician confirms medical necessity.
Step 4
In-home assessment
Care needs are reviewed in person.Care needs are reviewed in person.
Step 5
Get paid
Start receiving weekly pay from Kinwell.Start receiving weekly pay from Kinwell.
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Common Care Situations
Higher care needs may mean more paid hours.
These are examples of care situations that often involve significant daily, hands-on support.
Memory Loss & Dementia
Alzheimer’s, dementia, cognitive decline
Neurologic Conditions
Parkinson’s, MS, ALS, seizures
Developmental Disabilities
Autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy
Chronic Conditions
COPD, heart failure, kidney disease
Stroke Recovery
Mobility loss, speech changes, paralysis
Surgery or Injury Recovery
Hip replacement, fractures, recovery
Don’t see your situation? You may still qualify.
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Why Kinwell Exists
America's largest healthcare workforce has no headquarters.
It works behind front doors across the country, where 63 million Americans care for someone with a complex medical condition or disability. Most are unpaid.
They manage medications before breakfast.
They keep stumbles from becoming falls.
They know which look means pain. Which silence means something is wrong.
They do not call it care coordination.
They call it Tuesday.
Around their work, healthcare built hospitals, offices, systems, titles, and paychecks for nearly everyone—except the ones holding it all together.
Families have spent generations organizing their lives around healthcare.
We think healthcare should organize itself around them.
The industry calls their work informal.
We call it indispensable.
Kinwell exists to build healthcare the other way around:
around the people already doing the work,
around the needs of each family,
around the reality of life at home.
Not by moving more responsibility into the home.
By building the system around it.
Not as the last stop in healthcare.
As the place healthcare begins.
Care runs on families.
Caregivers Like You
They were already doing the work.
Now they’re getting paid for it.
Real Kinwell caregivers, in their own words.
Angela T. — Portage, MI
Caring for a Friend
“The home help program has been real helpful. It's made being a caretaker much more easy. I can focus more on helping as opposed to struggling with the app. And you guys have been super helpful and have helped out with any questions I have. Thanks!”
Paid for 26 hours/month
~$6,000 /year
Marcus J. — Detroit, MI
Caring for Mother
“This program has been very helpful and stress free for myself and my mother! It's been helping me in a lot of areas, especially not having to leave my mom alone for a very long amount of time, knowing I have money flowing in to help me out with my bills! I'm very grateful for this!”
Paid for 58 hours/month
~$13,000 /year
Rhonda M. — Alma, MI
Caring for Mother
“I want to thank you all for this program — if it wasn't for you guys, it would be hard to go and help my mother twice a day just so she will never have to go into a home. I get to set the hours I go and when I leave... I don't do it for the money. I do it for the love I have for my mother.”
Paid for 69 hours/month
~$16,000 /year
*Names, photos, and locations changed to protect privacy. Eligibility and payment amounts vary.
You've been caring
every day.
Now get paid for it.
If you qualify, Kinwell hires you as a paid caregiver.
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