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On March 28, 2023, we sent an announcement that we will cover the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for individuals ages six months to four years as outlined in the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) form the
MaineCare’s DRSU is holding a virtual learning session about MaineCare’s strategy for delivery system and rate reform, along with updates on other important initiatives. This session is open to all providers. This session is on May 22, 2023, from 1:30 to 3:00 PM.
Notifies facilities where exposure may have occurred out of an abundance of caution pending confirmation
AUGUSTA, Maine— The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has received a report of a positive measles laboratory result in a Maine child and is awaiting confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC). The Maine CDC notified the facilities where exposure may have occurred and is working with those facilities to inform potentially exposed individuals.
The Maine Prescription Monitoring Program is excited to announce that it has launched new, online waiver request processes for prescribers and dispensers.
Prescribers can now request waivers from the Electronic Prescribing mandate online. Once logged into the Maine PMP at maine.pmpaware.net, click on Menu, under the Waivers heading, click on Individual Request for E-Prescribing Waiver. This new process makes it significantly easier to request a waiver and speeds up the approval process.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government declared a PHE and relaxed certain requirements to ensure Medicaid members could continue to access healthcare services. The federal government has declared that the PHE will end on May 11, 2023.
Starting May 12, 2023, some billing flexibilities and how MaineCare members access health care services will revert to how they were administered prior to the declaration of the PHE.
Registration is now open for MaineCare's annual forums for Accountable Communities (AC), Behavioral Health Homes (BHH), Community Care Teams (CCT) including HOME providers, MaineMOM, Opioid Health Homes (OHH), and Primary Care Plus (PCPlus) providers.
MaineCare is offering three different opportunities for trainings this year. Two different forum learning sessions are available virtually. The third is available in-person and will feature the same information at each session. Please see the table below.
The federal deadline to implement the EVV requirements for Home Health providers delivering services under Section 40 and Hospice providers delivering services under Section 43 happened January 1, 2023.
We continue to offer weekly provider and aggregator trainings and forums. All trainings and forums are online via Microsoft Teams.
Registration is now open for MaineCare's annual forums for Accountable Communities (AC), Behavioral Health Homes (BHH), Community Care Teams (CCT) including HOME providers, MaineMOM, Opioid Health Homes (OHH), and Primary Care Plus (PCPlus) providers.
MaineCare is offering three different opportunities for trainings this year. Two different forum learning sessions are available virtually. The third is available in-person and will feature the same information at each session. Please see the table below.
On April 11, 2023, we notified providers there was an issue with the Health PAS Online Portal that affects the ability to submit multiple service lines on claims. We have corrected the issue.
You can now adjust paid claims to add missing claim lines for full payment or submit new claims with the missing unpaid claim lines.
Currently, the Health PAS Online Portal does not accept Medicare Part C dental COB data in the COB field of the Direct Data Entry (DDE) Dental claim. Entering Medicare Part C primary dental payment information as a Third Party Liability (TPL) primary payment on the portal may result in a claim processing incorrectly.
Until this issue is corrected, please submit dental claims with a Medicare Part C payment either on a paper claim or via an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) submission.