CHAPTER 684

S.P. 613 - L.D. 1681

An Act To Make Principles of Reimbursement for Intermediate

Care Facilities for the Mentally Retarded Major Substantive

Rules

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3187, as amended by PL 1995, c. 462, Pt. A, §43, is further amended to read:

§3187. Principles of reimbursement; rules

The department shall meet annually with providers of community based community-based intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded to review current principles of reimbursement under the federal Social Security Act, Title XIX, 42 United States Code, chapter Chapter 7, and discuss necessary and appropriate changes.

Principles of reimbursement established for intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded shall assure must ensure maximum flexibility enabling facilities to shift variable cost funds within accounts established pursuant to the principles. These principles shall may not set any artificial limits on specific variable cost accounts as long as facility totals are met.

Rules regarding principles of reimbursement for intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded adopted pursuant to section 3173 are major substantive rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.