• Read more about Payments to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Providers

This week, DHHS is distributing additional payments to HCBS providers to fund bonuses for direct support workers. Please see the DHHS press release from yesterday for more detail about these bonus payments and other investments in HCBS services.

Please contact Provider Relations Specialist Tammy Usher with questions.   

• Read more about Payments to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Providers

This week, DHHS is distributing additional payments to HCBS providers to fund bonuses for direct support workers. Please see the DHHS press release from yesterday for more detail about these bonus payments and other investments in HCBS services.

Please contact Provider Relations Specialist Tammy Usher with questions.   

• Read more about Payments to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Providers

This week, DHHS is distributing additional payments to HCBS providers to fund bonuses for direct support workers. Please see the DHHS press release from yesterday for more detail about these bonus payments and other investments in HCBS services.

Please contact Provider Relations Specialist Tammy Usher with questions.   

• Read more about System Maintenance from March 19, 2022 to March 20, 2022  

MIHMS and the Health PAS Online Portal will be unavailable from 12:00 pm on Saturday, March 19, 2022 to 12:00 pm Sunday, March 20, 2022 for scheduled system maintenance and upgrades. 

Mar 3, 2022

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)  is distributing this week an additional $4 million in MaineCare payments to home- and community-based services (HCBS) providers to fund bonuses for  direct support workers across the state. This additional funding is on top o f$116 million distributed in February, bringing the total number of workers receiving bonuses to 20,925.

• Read more about Maine DHHS Provides an Additional $4 Million to Fund Bonuses for Direct Support Workers 

• Read more about Use of Palivizumab Prophylaxis to Prevent Hospitalization from Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection 

Effective March 11, 2022, MaineCare will no longer accept Prior Authorization (PA) requests for palivizumab for the treatment of RSV. Scheduled doses will be covered through March 31, 2022. and no further shipments will be authorized after March 31, 2022.  

• Read more about Use of Palivizumab Prophylaxis to Prevent Hospitalization from Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection 

Effective March 11, 2022, MaineCare will no longer accept Prior Authorization (PA) requests for palivizumab for the treatment of RSV. Scheduled doses will be covered through March 31, 2022. and no further shipments will be authorized after March 31, 2022.  

• Read more about Nursing Facility (NF) and Residential Care Facility (PNMI Appendix C) Rates are Available for Billing 

Effective Wednesday, March 9, 2022, we have updated the rates for Sections 67, Nursing Facility and 97, Appendix C Residential Care Facility (RCF) in MIHMS retroactively to January 1, 2022.

• Read more about Notice of Agency Rule-making Adoption: 10-144 C.M.R. Chapter 101, MaineCare Benefits Manual, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, Ch. III

AGENCY:  Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services

• Read more about System Maintenance from March 19, 2022 to March 20, 2022   

MIHMS and the Health PAS Online Portal will be unavailable from 12:00 pm on Saturday, March 19, 2022 to 12:00 pm Sunday, March 20, 2022 for scheduled system maintenance and upgrades.  

While the Health PAS Online Portal is unavailable, providers and billing agents will be unable to: