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| LR 2896 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| Resolve, To Ensure the Coordination and Effectiveness in the Provision of Outpatient and Medication Management Services under Maine's Noncategorical Waiver |
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| LR 2629 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Guarantee Access to Medically Necessary Medications during the Implementation of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill provides additional resources to the state agencies and contractors and other agencies involved in providing outreach to people who previously obtained drugs through MaineCare, the low-cost prescription drug program or other prescription drug programs. These resources will be used to help link those who are put at risk because they are unable to obtain medically necessary prescription drugs with those prescription drugs in a timely manner.
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| LR 2640 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Health and Human Services To Develop Strategies To Keep Senior Citizens Safe from Falls
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill develops public education strategies to reduce falls among older adults; improves the awareness, education and training of health professionals and providers to include falls risk assessment and targeted interventions; and intensifies services and promotes research to determine the most effective ways to prevent and treat falls.
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| LR 2791 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| Resolve, To Appropriately Reimburse and Ensure the Availability of Personal Care Assistant Services |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would increase the pay rate for personal care assistants under the MaineCare program. |
| LR 2991 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Improve Retention, Quality and Benefits for Direct Care Health Workers |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill increases reimbursements for Medicaid providers sufficient to provide health coverage for direct care workers in long-term care settings. |
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| LR 2539 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Streamline MaineCare Billing
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would amend the payor-of-last-resort policy by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to make payments to private insurers for services when MaineCare is the payor of only resort prior to filing a
request for payment.
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| LR 2990 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Designate the Department of Health and Human Services as the Sole Entity Entitled To Use the 2-1-1 Telephone Number |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would establish 211 as the single phone number to call to obtain information on all services provided by or through the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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| LR 2586 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Amend the Law Regarding Smoking in Private Clubs
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would amend the law that allows smoking in private clubs if a majority of the members vote to allow smoking to change the requirement to a majority of those ballots received. |
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| LR 2832 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Protect Children from the Onset of Autism |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would protect children from the onset of autism by banning the use of thimerosol. |
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| LR 2468 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Improve the MaineCare Program
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill seeks to create a process for carrying out the reform proposed by the Governor to the MaineCare Program. The process needs to include input from the Legislature, providers and consumers. |
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| LR 2772 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Strengthen and Improve Review Procedures in the Certificate of Need Program |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would propose further improvements to the certificate of need project review process. These improvements arise from the deliberations of the Commission to Study Maine's Hospitals. New procedures would include: lower dollar thresholds for project review, new project reporting requirements, additional methods for determining community need, clarified roles for other state agencies used in the review process and the conduct of certificate of need hearings as adjudicatory proceedings using an impartial hearing officer and APA standards. |
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| LR 2742 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Improve Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Services
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would improve substance abuse rehabilitation services by creating a process to involve local communities in the licensing process. |
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| LR 2910 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Establish a Child Advocate Position in the Disability Rights Center |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would create a position of child advocate in the Disability Rights Center. |
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| LR 3029 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Maintain Prescription Drug Benefits for Seniors and People with Disabilities |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to continue to provide the same level of pharmacy services to MaineCare members, members in the drugs for the elderly program and those in the AIDS Drug Assistance Program who are also eligible for the new Medicare Part D benefit at no greater cost than members pay for those services now. |
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| LR 2574 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Allow the Department of Health and Human Services To Locate Parents Who Are Delinquent in Child Support Payments through Information Related to Cellular Telephones
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill allows the Department of Health and Human Services to locate parents who are delinquent in child support payments through information in the possession of wireless service providers. |
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| LR 2603 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Enhance Health Care Safety
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill creates a Hospital Infections Disclosure Act to improve infection rates. |
| LR 2750 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Ensure Appropriate Reimbursement of Rising Energy Costs for Long-term Care Facilities |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its principles of reimbursement for long-term care facilities to provide proper recognition of rapidly rising energy costs. |
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| LR 2677 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Conform the Certificate of Need Law to Industry Standards
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would prohibit the State from disallowing reasonable construction contingency budgeting that is consistent with industry standards in a certificate of need application. |
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| LR 2967 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Streamline Criteria for Municipal General Assistance for Heating and Utility Assistance |
| SUMMARY |
| This bill would streamline criteria for municipal general assistance for heating and utility assistance. |
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| LR 2630 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act Permitting the Recycling of Unused Prescription Drugs
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would establish a prescription drug recycling program or repository for unused medications to be distributed to the needy. |
| SPONSOR: |
| LR 2475 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Clarify Prescription Drug Labels
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would require that pharmacies include on prescription bottle labels the name of the medication that was written on the doctor's prescription. In this way, if the pharmacy fills the prescription with a generic drug, the patient will be able to identify the medication and take the medication in accordance with the doctor's instructions.
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| SPONSOR: |
| LR 2647 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-10-27 |
| An Act To Clarify the Workplace Smoking Laws
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill would amend the law regarding smoking in private clubs. |
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| LR 2609 | ACCEPTED DATE: 2005-11-28 |
| An Act To Increase Wheelchair Van Services Reimbursement Rates
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| SUMMARY |
| This bill increases the wheelchair reimbursement rate under MaineCare. |