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130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
                   FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document                                                                        No. 432
H.P. 312                                                 House of Representatives, February 11, 2021
           Resolve, To Improve Behavioral Health Care for Children
   Received by the Clerk of the House on February 9, 2021. Referred to the Committee on
Health and Human Services pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
                                                                                ROBERT B. HUNT
                                                                                           Clerk
Presented by Representative MADIGAN of Waterville.
                                        Printed on recycled paper
 1      Sec. 1. Department of Health and Human Services to reimburse for
 2   additional collateral services. Resolved: That, no later than January 1, 2022, the
 3   Department of Health and Human Services shall amend rule Chapter 101: MaineCare
 4   Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 65 to reimburse for additional collateral contacts for
 5   children's home and community-based treatment. The rule must be amended to reimburse
 6   for additional collateral contacts provided by a mental health professional to parents,
 7   medical providers, psychiatric providers, residential providers, case managers and school
 8   personnel as long as the goal of the collateral contact is included in the individual treatment
 9   plan. This resolve does not affect the maximum number of hours of collateral contacts that
10   may be reimbursed under the rule. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine
11   technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, Chapter 375, subchapter
12   2-A.
13                                          SUMMARY
14       This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend rule
15   Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 65 to reimburse for
16   additional collateral contacts for children's home and community-based treatment. Those
17   additional collateral contacts are between the child's mental health professional and parents,
18   medical providers, psychiatric providers, residential providers, case managers and school
19   personnel as long as the goal of the collateral contact is included in the goals of the
20   individual treatment plan.
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