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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3173-D, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 752, §1, is
amended to read:

 
§3173-D. Reimbursement for alcoholism and drug dependency

 
treatment

 
The department shall provide reimbursement, to the maximum
extent allowable, under the United States Social Security Act,
Title XIX, for alcoholism and drug dependency treatment.
Treatment shall must include, but need not be limited to,
residential treatment and outpatient care as defined in Title 24-
A, section 2842.

 
For purposes of this section, the following terms have the
following meanings.

 
1.__Outpatient care.__"Outpatient care" means care rendered by
a state-licensed, approved or certified detoxification,
residential treatment or outpatient program or partial
hospitalization program on a periodic basis, including, but not
limited to, patient diagnosis, assessment and treatment;
individual, family and group counseling; and educational and
support services.

 
2.__Residential treatment.__"Residential treatment" means
services at a facility that provides care 24 hours daily to one
or more patients, including, but not limited to, the following
services:__room and board; medical, nursing and dietary services;
patient diagnosis, assessment and treatment; individual, family
and group counseling; and educational and support services,
including a designated unit of a licensed health care facility
providing any other services specified in this subsection to
patients with the illnesses of alcoholism and drug dependency.

 
Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §8711, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1999, c. 353, §16, is
further amended to read:

 
2. Information on mandated services. The organization is
authorized and directed to require providers of mammography
services to furnish information with respect to those services
for the purpose of assisting in the evaluation of the social and
financial impact and the efficacy of the mandated benefit for
screening mammograms under Title 24, section 2320-A and Title 24-
A, sections 2745-A and 2837-A. The information that may be
collected includes the location of mammography units, the
purchase of new mammography units, the number of screening and
diagnostic mammograms performed, the charge per mammogram and the
method and amount of payment, and the number of cancers detected
by screening mammograms.


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