2. Contracts; providers. Subject to approval by the superintendent pursuant to section 2305, an An insurer incorporated under this chapter shall offer contracts to providers, including those providers listed in section 2744, subsection 1, authorizing the provision of mental health services within the scope of the provider's licensure.

Sec. 10. 24-A MRSA §2843, sub-§3, ¶A-1 is enacted to read:

A-1.__"Home support services" means rehabilitative services, treatment services and living skills services provided for a person with a mental illness.__"Home support services" may be provided in a community setting or the person's current place of residence, and are services that promote the integration of the person into the community, sustain the person in the person's current living situation or another living situation of that person's choosing and enhance the person's quality of life. "Home support services" may be provided directly to the person or indirectly through collateral contact or by telephone contact or other means on behalf of the person.__ "Home support services" includes, but is not limited to:

(1)__Case management services and assertive community treatment services;

(2)__Medication education and monitoring;

(3)__Crisis intervention and resolution services and follow-up services; and

(4)__Individual, group and family counseling services.

Sec. 11. 24-A MRSA §2843, sub-§3, ¶D, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 515, §6, is amended to read:

D. "Person suffering from a mental or nervous condition illness" means a person whose psychobiological processes are impaired severely enough to manifest problems in the areas of social, psychological or biological functioning. Such a person has a disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory which that impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. The person manifests an impaired capacity to maintain acceptable levels of functioning in the areas of intellect, emotion or physical well-being.