| Sec. 5. Rules; effective date. The Department of Health and Human |
Services shall amend its rules governing reimbursement, |
contracting, grants, payments, cost reports and audits with |
respect to providers of health and community services to ensure |
that all of the requirements of this Act are applied to all |
audits completed on or after the effective date of this Act. |
Unless the law requiring the department to adopt or amend these |
rules indicates otherwise, rules adopted pursuant to this section |
are routine technical rules as defined in the Maine Revised |
Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. The department |
shall complete its rulemaking pursuant to this section no later |
than December 15, 2006. From the effective date of this Act |
until the date the rule amendments adopted pursuant to this |
section take effect, the department shall apply the requirements |
and principles established in this Act to all audits conducted |
under its existing rules. In the event of any conflict between |
those rules and this Act, the provisions of this Act supersede |
the rules. |