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LD 143 Title Page Resolve, to Improve Access to Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment LD 143 Title Page
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Sec. 1. Rulemaking. Resolved: That, by November 1, 2003, the
Department of Human Services shall adopt rules for the
MaineCare program to improve access to breast and cervical
cancer treatment. Rules adopted pursuant to this provision
are routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised
Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. The rules
must accomplish the following.

 
1. Eligibility must be granted to persons who are screened
in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program funded under Title XV of the Public Health Service Act
and those who are screened through breast and cervical cancer
screening programs at federally qualified health centers and
federally qualified look-alikes.

 
2. A broad presumptive eligibility procedure must be
adopted to facilitate prompt enrollment and immediate access
to services and treatment through presumptive eligibility for
the person in whom cancer is detected and naming federally
qualified health centers and federally qualified look-alikes
as presumptive eligibility sites.

 
SUMMARY

 
This resolve directs the Department of Human Services to
adopt rules, which are designated as routine technical rules,
for the MaineCare program to improve access to breast and
cervical cancer treatment. The rules must broaden eligibility
for treatment under the MaineCare program through accepting
screening at health centers and presumptive eligibility of the
person and the health centers.


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