MaineCare Policy and State Plan Amendments E-Message - October 29, 2015

The Division of Policy posts all proposed and recently adopted rules on MaineCare’s Policy and Rules webpage.  This website keeps the proposed rules on file until they are finalized and until the Secretary of State website is updated to reflect the changes.  The MaineCare Benefits Manual is available on-line at the Secretary of State’s website. 

Below, please find a Notice of Agency Rule-making Emergency Adoption.  You can access the complete rule at http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/rules/index.shtml

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Notice of Agency Emergency Rule-making

AGENCY:  Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services

CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE:  10-144, Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 2, Adult Family Care Services

ADOPTED RULE NUMBER:

CONCISE SUMMARY:  This emergency rule retroactively increases reimbursement rates by 4% for Adult Family Care Services at residential care facilities provided under MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 2, Adult Family Care Services. This emergency rule adoption follows the enactment of the State’s biennial budget, which among other MaineCare rate increases, increased the rates for Section 2 services effective July 1, 2015. P.L. 2015, ch. 267, 702 – L.D. 1019, Part A, Sec. A-32, and Part UUUU, Sec. UUUU-1. To implement these rate changes, the budget also authorized the Department to adopt emergency rules pursuant to 5 M.R.S.A. § 8054 without needing to demonstrate the emergency findings in support of emergency rulemaking. P.L. 2015, ch. 267, 702 – L.D. 1019, Part UU, Sec. UU-1. This emergency rule adoption will be effective for a ninety-day period in accordance with 5 M.R.S.A. § 8054(3), during which time the Department will engage in routine rulemaking to avoid a lapse in this reimbursement rate increase.

See http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/rules/index.shtml for rules and related rulemaking documents.

EFFECTIVE DATE:                          Retroactive to July 1, 2015

AGENCY CONTACT PERSON:      Thomas Leet, Comprehensive Health Planner II

AGENCY NAME:                              Division of Policy

ADDRESS:                                         242 State Street

                                                            11 State House Station

                                                            Augusta, Maine 04333-0011

TELEPHONE:                                   (207)-624-4068 FAX: (207) 287-9369

                        TTY: 711 (Deaf/Hard of Hearing)