The Health and Human Services Division represents the Department of Health and Human Services (except for child support and child protection, which are under the purview of the Child Support and Child Protection divisions). Division attorneys provide legal support to DHHS so that it can properly administer public resources, develop programs, and maintain compliance with established legal standards so that eligible persons can benefit from available services and programs. Responsibilities include advising and assisting agency staff regarding the public guardianship program, enforcement of the State's mental and physical health and adult protection laws; the licensing and monitoring of facilities and homes for both adults and children; the management of a number of State and Federal benefit programs including Medicaid (known as MaineCare) and SNAP; and representing the Department at over more than one thousand involuntary commitment trials annually.
Jane Gregory, Division Chief
Jane Gregory joined the Office of the Attorney General in 1998, representing the Department of Health and Human Services, with a focus on MaineCare, Maine's Medicaid program. Jane became Chief of the Health and Human Services in 2016. She successfully argued before the Maine Law Court in Fryeburg Health Care Center v. DHHS, 1999 ME 122, 734 A.2d 122 (Court affirmed MaineCare's denial of reimbursement as consistent with its MaineCare regulation) and H.D. Goodall Hospital v. DHHS, 2008 ME 105, 951 A.2d 828 (Court upheld MaineCare's delay in providing full reimbursement to hospital for services rendered to Mainecare recipients).
Jane received her undergraduate degree from Colby College, her law degree from the University of Maine School of Law, and a M.B.A. from the University of Southern Maine. Before law school, Jane worked at Georgetown University, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, as the Managing Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.