CHAPTER 461

H.P. 585 - L.D. 808

An Act To Control County Jail Health Care Expenses

Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.

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

Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §1561, sub-§4 is enacted to read:

4.__Limitation on reimbursement rate to medical service providers for services outside county jail.__A county may pay to a provider of a medical service for a prisoner an amount no greater than the reimbursement rate applicable to that provider and that service as established by rule of the Department of Human Services for the MaineCare program under Title 22.__This limitation applies to all medical care services, goods, prescription drugs and medications provided to a prisoner outside the county jail.