| | | Sec. VVV-1. Rulemaking. The Department of Health and Human | | Services shall adopt rules no later than January 1, 2006 to amend | | the MaineCare Benefits Manual to include provisions under Chapter | | II, Section 65, Mental Health Services, that were previously | | included under Chapter II, Section 37, Home Based Mental Health | | Services. The provisions added to Section 65 must be considered | | with the provisions adopted as Section 37 of the MaineCare | | Benefits Manual as of April 1, 2002 consistent with the rules | | adopted for Chapter II, Section 65 for outpatient mental health | | services. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine | | technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title | | 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. |
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| | | Sec. WWW-1. Rulemaking prohibited. The Department of Health and | | Human Services may not adopt rules to change the eligibility of | | care requirements in the MaineCare Benefits Manual Chapter II, | | Section 17, Community Support Services during fiscal year 2005- | | 06. This limitation does not restrict the department's ability | | to revise individual determinations based on the assessment of | | medical necessity. |
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| | | Sec. XXX-1. Working group; mental health services system redesign. The | | Department of Health and Human Services shall convene a working | | group including representatives of provider, consumer, family and | | advocacy groups to develop a regional system for the financing, | | management and oversight of the mental health system beginning in | | fiscal year 2006-07. |
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| | | The working group must meet at least 4 times and develop a | | plan for the regional system redesign that may include a pilot | | demonstration and specify the actions required to implement the | | new system of services, finance the system and transition from | | the current mental health service delivery system. If a pilot | | demonstration is implemented, the plan must also include a | | process for evaluating the required pilot demonstration before | | the new system is implemented statewide. |
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| | | The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide a | | report with recommendations of the working group to the Joint | | Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and | | the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no | | later than January 15, 2006. |
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