| Sec. 1. Rules. Resolved: That the Department of Human Services |
| shall adopt rules by November 1, 2003 for prior authorization |
| procedures within the MaineCare program to ensure that women |
| have access to the full range of gynecological and |
| reproductive health care services. The rules must provide to |
| a woman's reproductive health care provider the authority to |
| provide or arrange for primary reproductive health care and to |
| provide or arrange for care arising from or indicated by that |
| primary care. Rules adopted pursuant to this resolve are |
| routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised |
| Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. |
