Rule Proposal: Chapter III, Section 45, Hospital Services
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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 Proposal. You can access the complete rules at http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/rules/index.shtml
Notice of Agency Rule-making Proposal
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, MaineCare Services
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: 10-144 C.M.R., Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 45, Hospital Services
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER:
CONCISE SUMMARY: The Department proposed this rule pursuant to Resolves 2017, ch. 41, Resolve, Regarding Medicaid Reimbursement for Rehabilitation Hospitals, directing the Department of Health and Human Services to amend Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Section 45, Chapter III, to increase the Medicaid per discharge reimbursement rate provided to rehabilitation hospitals and reduce the total hospital supplement pool by four-hundred thousand dollars ($400,000).
The rule amends the Department of Health and Human Services Rule, Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 45.06, to increase the Medicaid per discharge reimbursement rate provided to rehabilitation hospitals to fifteen-thousand, one-hundred, sixty-one dollars and forty-three cents ($15,161.43) and reduces the total hospital supplemental pool as described in Section 45.07, by four-hundred thousand dollars ($400,000).
See http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/rules/index.shtml for rules and related rulemaking documents.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: 22 M.R.S. §§ 42, 3173; Resolves 2017, ch. 41, Resolve, Regarding Medicaid Reimbursement for Rehabilitation Hospitals
PUBLIC HEARING:
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.
Location: Marquardt Bldg., Room 118, Door D-7
32 Blossom Lane, Augusta, ME 04333
The Department requests that any interested party requiring special arrangements to attend the hearing contact the agency person listed below before July 30, 2018.
DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS: Comments must be received by 11:59 p.m. on August 17, 2018
AGENCY CONTACT PERSON: Anne E. Labonte, Comprehensive Health Planner II
AGENCY NAME: MaineCare Services
ADDRESS: 242 State St.
11 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0011
TELEPHONE: 207-624-4082 FAX: (207) 287-1864
TTY: 711 (Deaf or Hard of Hearing)