CHAPTER 61

H.P. 56 - L.D. 60

Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human

Services To Adopt Rules Regarding Accrual of Cost Savings

Sec. 1. Rulemaking. Resolved: That, by January 1, 2006, the Department of Health and Human Services shall provisionally adopt rules amending the principles of reimbursement of intermediate care facilities for mental retardation to create facility-specific incentives for the efficient management of variable costs by those facilities. The department shall notify the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services of any rule that is proposed pursuant to this resolve. Rules adopted pursuant to this resolve are major substantive rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A and must be submitted for review by the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services during the Second Regular Session of the 122nd Legislature.