Public Input for Proposed Rules
Notices are published each Wednesday to alert the public regarding state agency rulemaking. You may obtain a copy of any rule by notifying the agency contact person. You may also comment on the rule, and/or attend the public hearing. If no hearing is scheduled, you may request one - the agency may then schedule a hearing, and must do so if 5 or more persons request it. If you are disabled or need special services to attend a hearing, please notify the agency contact person at least 7 days prior to it. Petitions: you can petition an agency to adopt, amend, or repeal any rule; the agency must provide you with petition forms, and must respond to your petition within 60 days. The agency must enter rulemaking if the petition is signed by 150 or more registered voters, and may begin rulemaking if there are fewer (Title 5 §8055). You can also petition the Legislature to review a rule; the Executive Director of the Legislative Council (115 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333, phone (207) 287-1615) will provide you with the necessary petition forms. The appropriate legislative committee will review a rule upon receipt of a petition from 100 or more registered voters, or from "...any person who may be directly, substantially and adversely affected by the application of a rule..." (Title 5 §11112). World?Wide Web: Copies of the weekly notices and the full texts of adopted rule chapters may be found on the internet at: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules. There is also a list of rulemaking liaisons (http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules/liaisons.html), who are single points of contact for each agency.
PROPOSALS
AGENCY: 09-137 - Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 4, Hunting and Trapping: 4.01 (G. 1a, 1b), Upland Game and Furbearing Animals (Beaver)
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2017-P096
BRIEF SUMMARY: The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is proposing to adopt amendments to the season dates and the open and closed areas for beaver trapping as follows: WMDs 1-4, October 15 - April 30; WMDs 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, October 29 - April 30; WMDs 18, 19, 28, October 29 - April 15; WMDs 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, October 29 - March 31.
During the open season for beaver trapping in any of the twenty nine wildlife management districts (WMDs), certain townships may be restricted by one of the following provisions: 1) Town open to beaver trapping with certain specified areas closed; 2) Town closed to beaver trapping with certain specified areas open; 3) Town closed to all beaver trapping or 4) Town open to all beaver trapping. A complete copy of the proposed rule can be obtained from the rulemaking contact person listed below.
PUBLIC HEARING: August 29, 2017 @ 6:00 p.m. - Augusta Armory, Room 209B, 179 Western Avenue, Augusta
COMMENT DEADLINE: September 8, 2017
CONTACT PERSON FOR THIS FILING / SMALL BUSINESS IMPACT INFORMATION / IFW RULEMAKING LIAISON: Becky Orff, Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, 284 State Street 41 SHS, Augusta, ME 04333. Telephone: (207) 287-5202. Fax: (207) 287-6395. Email: Becky.Orff@Maine.gov .
FINANCIAL IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: No fiscal impact anticipated.
AGENCY: 10-144 - Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of MaineCare Services (OMS)
CHAPTER NUMBER AND TITLE: Ch. 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual (MBM): Ch. II & III Section 45, Hospital Services
PROPOSED RULE NUMBER: 2017-P097
CONCISE SUMMARY: This proposed rule provides for the following changes:
An update to reporting requirements for Acute Care Critical Access Hospitals and Private Psychiatric Hospitals to reflect current reporting requirements;
The addition of separate reimbursement for Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) when the device is inserted during the postpartum inpatient hospital stay;
An expansion of the definition of "Discharge" to include inpatient maintenance chemotherapy as an exception to the fourteen-day (14) readmission protocol;
The requirement for providers to submit mapping documents to aid in payment methodology calculations;
An adjustment requiring payment of 100% in the event of a hospital overpayment;
The addition of the payment window rule requiring hospitals or entities wholly-owned or wholly-operated by a hospital, to bill the technical component of outpatient services provided within a 3-day (or 1-day) window preceding inpatient admission on the inpatient claim;
Establishing a modifier to identify and pay non-excepted items and services of off-campus hospital outpatient provider-based departments (PBDs);
A clarification to the out-of-state hospitals section clarifying that laboratory and imaging outpatient services reimbursement shall not exceed the 100% of Medicare reimbursement rate for the Maine area '99;
An increase in the amount of funds in the supplemental pool to comply with PL 2017 Ch. 284 Sec. ZZZZZZ-9;
A restructuring of the supplemental pool methodology used to allocate hospital supplemental pool payments for Non-Critical Access Hospitals, hospitals classified to a wage area outside of Maine by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, and Rehabilitation hospitals;
Terminology and references updates; and
Minor language editing for clarification purposes.
See http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oms/rules/index.shtml for rules and related rulemaking documents.
PUBLIC HEARING: Monday, August 28, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., Marquardt Building, Room #118, Door D7, 32 Blossom Lane, Augusta, ME. The Department requests that any interested party requiring special arrangements to attend the hearing contact the agency person listed below before Monday, August 21, 2017.
DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS: Comments must be received by 11:59 p.m. on September 7, 2017.
AGENCY CONTACT PERSON: Anne Labonte Perreault, Comprehensive Health Planner II, MaineCare Services, 242 State Street, 11 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333-0011. Telephone: (207) 624-4082. Fax: (207) 287-1864. TTY: 711 (Deaf or Hard of Hearing). Email: Anne.Labonte-Perreault@Maine.gov .
IMPACT ON MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES: The Department anticipates that this rulemaking will not have any impact on municipalities or counties.
ADOPTIONS
Pursuant to Ch. 380 of the Public Laws of 2011, notice of the adoption of rules will no longer be published in the newspaper rulemaking notices; our Wednesday web notices will continue to carry them, however. Information on rules adopted through the Maine Administrative Procedure Act as well as the full text of adopted rules is available on the internet at http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/rules .
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