Rate Updates
Rate Update for 2022 Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC) Rates, CR 107519
System Maintenance from April 9, 2022 to April 10, 2022
MIHMS and the Health PAS Online Portal will be unavailable from 12:00 pm on Saturday, April 9, 2022 to 12:00 pm Sunday, April 10, 2022 for scheduled system maintenance and upgrades.
MaineCare Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Rate, CR 107185
On February 17, 2022, the Office of MaineCare Services (OMS) updated the COVID-19 vaccine administration reimbursement rate retroactively to January 1, 2022 in accordance with the update to 100% of the Medicare regional rate for Maine, as previously announced.
Strengthening Maine’s Behavioral Health System
Apr 4, 2022
Supporting mental health and reducing the harm of opioid addiction and other substance use disorders has been a priority for the Mills Administration from day one. In the past three years, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine has built capacity and invested in behavioral health services.
Microdyn Updates for Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC), CRs 107154 & 107155
Effective March 5, 2022, we have updated MIHMS with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quarterly updates. The following CMS documents provide the details of the January 2022 updates:
The Impact of Bias and Microaggressions Webinar
Join the Zoom webinar on April 14, 2022 from 7:30 to 8:30 am.
Please register in advance HERE!
Attention Providers of Sections 67, Nursing Facility (NF), 97, Residential Care Facility (RCF or PNMI Appendix C), and 2, Adult Family Care Homes (AFCH)
Effective today, the Minimum Data Set (MDS) Submission Management System (SMS) web address is now: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/sms/
Attention Private Non-Medical Intuition (PNMI) Appendix B Providers: Maintenance Case Needed for New Specialty Added to Provider Type 55 – PNMI, CR 100507
Maine has received approval for the 1115 Demonstration waiver to lift the Institute of Mental Disease (IMD) exclusion for Substance Use Disorders (SUD) residential services. We have added a new IMD specialty, SUD-IMD, to Provider Type 55 – PNMI for programs currently enrolled with the 001-Addiction Services specialty.