Resolve, To Support Home Health Services

Sec. 1. Reimbursement rate increase for home health services. Resolved: That, no later than January 1, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services shall amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 40 to increase reimbursement rates for certain procedure codes at 15-minute units as follows:

1. G0154TD at $33.46;

2. G0154TE at $23.42;

3. G0156 at $15.16;

4. G0152 at $36.83;

5. G0152TF at $25.79;

6. G0151 at $36.58;

7. G0151TF at $25.61;

8. G0153 at $39.75;

9. G0153TF at $27.83; and

10. G0155 at $36.82.

Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following appropriations and allocations are made.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF

Medical Care - Payments to Providers 0147

Initiative: Provides funding to increase the reimbursement rates for home health services under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 40.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19
All Other	$0	$143,697
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$143,697

FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND	2017-18	2018-19
All Other	$0	$261,312
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FUND TOTAL	$0	$261,312