4.__Health planning.__The agency shall establish a health planning program and adopt rules to implement that program.__ Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.__Health planning must be considered in light of the programs on quality, affordability and efficiency established under subsections 1 to 3.__The program must include, but is not limited to:

A.__Global budgets for all expenditures of the plan for the base year of the plan and for each following year based on the level of expenditures in the preceding year as increased by the percentage of increase in the average per capita personal income applicable to the State, as developed by the United States Department of Commerce;

B.__Global budgets for hospitals and institutional providers with adjustments for case mix, volume and region and separate capital budgets for hospitals and institutional providers;

C.__A certificate of need program, pursuant to chapter 103- A;

D.__A health planning program; and

E.__Data collection regarding health care needs, resources and expenditures.

SUBCHAPTER 4

FINANCING OF THE MAINE HEALTH CARE PLAN

§374.__Financing of Maine Health Care Plan

Financing of the plan is accomplished by the fund.