Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Adopt Rules Governing the Use of Certain Antipsychotic Drugs by Children Enrolled in MaineCare

Sec. 1. Rules. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall adopt rules pertaining to the use of atypical antipsychotic medications by a child under 17 years of age enrolled in MaineCare to require that the prescriber of atypical antipsychotic medication beyond the recommended period provide documented justification as to why the child should continue taking the medication and to require that the prescriber perform a timely assessment and ongoing monitoring of metabolic and neurologic variables of the child in accordance with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Practice Parameter for the Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Medications in Children and Adolescents. Rules adopted pursuant to this resolve are major substantive rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.