Sec. B-2. 34-A MRSA §3031-B is enacted to read:

§3031-B.__Limitation on reimbursement rate to medical service

providers for services outside department facility

Effective July 1, 2004, the department or its contracted medical provider may pay to a provider of a medical service for a person residing in a correctional or detention facility an amount no greater than the reimbursement rate applicable to that provider and that service as established by rule of the Department of Human Services for the MaineCare program under Title 22.__This limitation applies to all medical care services, goods, prescription drugs and medications provided to a person outside the facility.__In the case of outpatient hospital services, this limitation is deemed to have been met if the department or its contracted medical provider pays a percentage, determined by the Department of Human Services, of the published MaineCare rate.

Sec. B-3. 34-A MRSA §3069, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2003, c. 482, Pt. B, §1, is further amended to read:

1. Involuntary. When an inmate a prisoner of a correctional or detention facility has been determined by a competent medical authority the facility's treating physician, psychiatrist or psychologist to require inpatient treatment for mental illness, the chief administrative officer of that facility shall make application in accordance with Title 34-B, section 3863.

A. Any person with respect to whom an application and certification under Title 34-B, section 3863 are made may be admitted to either state mental health institute.

B. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, Title 34-B, chapter 3, subchapter IV 4, Article III 3, is applicable to the person as if the admission of the person were applied for under Title 34-B, section 3863.

C. A copy of the document by which the person is held in the facility must accompany the application for admission.

D. If the sentence being served at the time of admission has not expired or commitment has not been terminated in accordance with law at the time the person is ready for discharge from hospitalization, the person must be returned