| An Act To Improve the Affordability of Health Insurance |
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 24-A MRSA §2752, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 2001, c. 258, Pt. | I, §1, is further amended to read: |
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| B. The financial impact of mandating the benefit, | including: |
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| (1) The extent to which the proposed insurance | coverage would increase or decrease the cost of the | treatment or service over the next 5 years; |
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| (2) The extent to which the proposed coverage might | increase the appropriate or inappropriate use of the | treatment or service over the next 5 years; |
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| (3) The extent to which the mandated treatment or | service might serve as an alternative for more | expensive or less expensive treatment or service; |
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| (4) The methods that will be instituted to manage the | utilization and costs of the proposed mandate; |
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| (5) The extent to which the insurance coverage may | affect the number and types of providers of the | mandated treatment or service over the next 5 years; |
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