An Act To Clarify the Prohibition on Payment for Health Care Facility Mistakes or Preventable Adverse Events
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1721, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 605, §1, is amended to read:
2. Prohibition. A health care facility is prohibited from knowingly charging a patient or the patient's insurer or the patient's employer as defined in Title 39-A, section 102, subsection 12 for health care services it provided as a result of or to correct a mistake or preventable adverse event caused by that health care facility.
Effective September 12, 2009