Sec. UU-1. Allocation. The following funds are allocated from Other Special Revenue funds to carry out the purposes of this Part.
2000-01
HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Medical Care - Payments to Providers
All Other $1,800,000
Provides for the allocation of funds from the Fund for a Healthy Maine to improve the delivery of and access to tobacco-related chronic disease prevention services by providing financial incentives to Medicaid health care providers whose practices involve an excellent level of preventive services, thereby decreasing rates of tobacco-related chronic diseases. Preventive services include screening for and treating high blood pressure and high cholesterol, offering effective tobacco-cessation services and providing certain vaccines, such as influenza and pneumococcal vaccines, in order to reduce the impact of certain infectious diseases on people with tobacco-related chronic diseases.
Sec. UU-2. Allocation. The following funds are allocated from the Federal Expenditures Fund to carry out the purposes of this Part.
2000-01
HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Medical Care - Payments to Providers
All Other $3,516,792
Provides funds for the federal share of the costs to improve the delivery of and access to tobacco-related chronic disease prevention services.
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