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This notice corrects our earlier reference to Section 50 as an Intensive Care Facility. Section 50 is an Intermediate Care Facility.
Rate Letters
Rate Letters
The CY 2024, ICF-IID rate letters are now available on the Health PAS Online Portal. You can view them by logging into your Trading Partner Account and following this pathway: File Exchange > Reports > Rate Setting Letters.
Effective January 1, 2024, the Section 103, RHC CY24 rate letters will be accessible on the secure Health PAS Online Portal. You can view them by logging into your Trading Partner Account and following this pathway: Exchange > Reports > Rate Setting Letters.
This is a follow-up message about the previously scheduled event that was cancelled due to inclement weather and State office closure. We have rescheduled the Provider Enrollment Presentation to January 17, 2024, 9:00 – 10:30 AM. Please see the details below.
Notice of MaineCare Reimbursement Methodology Change
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services
SERVICES INCLUDED: Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, January 1 Cost-of-Living Adjustments
Notice of MaineCare Reimbursement Methodology Change
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services
SERVICES INCLUDED: Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, Appendix C
The EVV requirements for Home Health providers delivering services under Section 40 were implemented on January 1, 2023.
We continue to offer weekly provider and aggregator trainings. All trainings are online via Microsoft Teams.
NOTE: The Absorb training system has been updated to allow providers to register for trainings more than once.
EVV Training Schedule
Effective January 1, 2024, in accordance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) application fee requirements, MaineCare’s provider enrollment application fee will increase to $709 per enrollment application. This increase will apply to new, reactivating, or revalidating providers, or when adding new service locations to an existing enrollment. You can pay the application fee by credit or debit card at the time of application submission.
The Department's Health Inspection Program (HIP) is proposing changes to its rule, to update requirements consistent with PL 2021, ch. 125, as well as clarify language that improves protection of patrons of eating establishments, lodging places, campgrounds, recreational and sporting camps, youth camps, or public pools/spas in Maine.
The Maine CDC Health Inspection Program is proposing to update and clarify safety and wellness standards for its Rules Relating to Boys, Girls, Boys and Girls, Day Camps and Primitive and Trip Camping (10-144 CMR Ch. 208), which was last updated in 2007. The Department is proposing to change the rule title, add and clarify definitions, incorporate application, licensing and enforcement provisions and requirements from its Administration and Enforcement of Establishments Regulated by the Health Inspection Program Rule (Ch.