LD 1655 – Maine

Status: Inactive / Dead
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=1655&snum=129

This bill: 1. Establishes the Social Determinants of Health Stakeholder Advisory Group to collaborate with providers of home health care services and other services relating to the social determinants of health and make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services; 2. Provides for reimbursement for telehealth or telemonitoring for certain services; 3. Expands the duties of the Maine Telehealth and Telemonitoring Advisory Group to include making recommendations about home technology to the Department of Health and Human Services; 4. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to review rates of certain services; 5. establishes scope of practice and reimbursement for certain services; 6. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a work group to review options for adjusting rates in order to provide health care coverage and paid sick leave to home-based and community-based care providers; 7. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to review its in-person supervisory requirement for home-based and community-based care providers to determine whether the use of technology that provides interactive, real-time communication is feasible and practical and to report its recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services.


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