6.__Review thresholds.__The department shall, by rule, establish minimum dollar amounts or other limits on the significance or magnitude of adjustments that will be made during an audit, in order to avoid imposing undue burdens on providers by reviewing and adjusting costs with an insignificant impact on overall expenses.__Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are major substantive rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

7.__Training and technical assistance for providers.__The department shall ensure that the office of audit makes available a regular program of training to enable providers to have complete and current information regarding the process of auditing cost reports and agreements and the substantive standards that will be applied in conducting such audits.__The department shall ensure that the office of audit makes available to providers, on request, knowledgeable members of its staff to provide such technical assistance as providers may require in order to achieve compliance with the standards applied by the office of audit.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §42, sub-§7, ¶F, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 419, §2, is amended to read:

F. By July 1, 2004 the department shall make available on its publicly accessible site on the Internet the decisions in all MaineCare provider appeals beginning January 1, 2004, including the recommendations of the hearing officer and the decision of the commissioner. By August 1, 2006 the department shall make available on the same site all final informal review decisions issued with regard to audit reports or examination reports, as well as copies of any decisions issued by the department or on appeal from the department in any appeal filed pursuant to the Maine Uniform Accounting and Auditing Practices Act for Community Agencies.