‘An Act Regarding the Reimbursement to Municipalities and Counties of the Cost of Opioid Antagonist Treatment’
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Session - 128th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number H-360, Sponsored by
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LR 2232 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act Regarding the Reimbursement to Municipalities and Counties of the Cost of Opioid Antagonist Treatment’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §3111 is enacted to read:
§ 3111. Recovering costs of opioid antagonists
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report of the committee. The amendment removes the requirement in the bill that a municipality or county or agent of either make all reasonable efforts to identify whether an individual has previously been administered an opioid antagonist and to recover the cost from the individual if it is a 2nd or subsequent treatment. The amendment, instead, authorizes a municipality, county or agent to make efforts to identify prior treatment with an opioid antagonist, and it authorizes the municipality or county to make efforts to recover from the individual's health insurance provider the cost of the dose administered if it is a 2nd or subsequent treatment. The amendment removes the provision in the bill that imposes a $1,000 fine on a municipality or county that does not meet the bill's requirements.