CHAPTER 391

H.P. 975 - L.D. 1411

An Act Regarding the Reporting of Hospital and Ambulatory

Surgical Center Prices

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

Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1718, as corrected by RR 2003, c. 1, §16, is amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read:

The Maine Health Data Organization, established in chapter 1683, shall adopt rules to establish criteria for the services and procedures and to standardize the manner of listing prices by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers under this section.__ Rules adopted pursuant to this paragraph are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §8712, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 469, Pt. C, §29, is amended to read:

2. Average payments. At a minimum, the organization, with advice from the Maine Health Data Processing Center as authorized in Title 10, section 681, shall develop and produce annual reports on prices charged average private-payer payments for the 15 most common services provided by health care facilities and health care practitioners, excluding emergency services. For health care facilities, the reports must include, but are not limited to, the average price charged private-payer payments per service per facility and total number of services per facility.