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On February 17, 2022, the Office of MaineCare Services (OMS) updated the COVID-19 vaccine administration reimbursement rate retroactively to January 1, 2022 in accordance with the update to 100% of the Medicare regional rate for Maine, as previously announced.
Apr 4, 2022
Supporting mental health and reducing the harm of opioid addiction and other substance use disorders has been a priority for the Mills Administration from day one. In the past three years, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine has built capacity and invested in behavioral health services.
Effective March 5, 2022, we have updated MIHMS with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quarterly updates. The following CMS documents provide the details of the January 2022 updates:
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Effective today, the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Submission Management System (SMS) web address is now: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/sms/
Maine has received approval for the 1115 Demonstration waiver to lift the Institute of Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion for Substance Use Disorders (SUD) residential services. We have added a new IMD specialty, SUD-IMD, to Provider Type 55 – PNMI for programs currently enrolled with the 001-Addiction Services specialty.
MaineCare will now send notices of job opportunities periodically through our General Topics e-message list. All positions are located in Augusta, Maine.
The Minimum Data Set (MDS) Submission Management System (SMS) will be down from 5:00 pm on March 30, 2022 until 8:00 am April 4, 2022.