§ 34-B §15003 — Responsibilities of the departments

In addition to any responsibilities otherwise provided by law, the departments have the following responsibilities.
1.
Agreements between departments.
The departments shall enter into agreements that designate the department as responsible for the implementation and operation of the program and specify the other departments' respective responsibilities. The agreements must provide mechanisms for planning, developing and designating lead responsibility for each child's care and for coordinating care and supportive services.
2.
Coordination.
The department is responsible for coordinating with the other departments to:
3.
Medicaid rules.
The department, after consultation with the Department of Corrections and the Department of Education, shall adopt rules for the provision of mental health care to children under the Medicaid program. The rules must address eligibility and reimbursement for different types of care in different settings, including management of psychiatric hospitalization. Rules in effect prior to the adoption of rules adopted pursuant to this subsection remain in effect until the effective date of the new rules.
4.
Statutory responsibilities; services, benefits or entitlements.
Nothing in this chapter may be construed to constrain or to impair any departments of this State in carrying out statutorily mandated responsibilities to children and their families or to diminish or to alter any services, benefits or entitlements received by virtue of statutory responsibilities.
5.
Fiscal management.
Funds appropriated or allocated for the purposes of this chapter must be used to provide care, to administer the program, to meet departmental responsibilities and to develop resources for children's care in this State as determined necessary through the individualized treatment planning process pursuant to section 15002, subsection 1.
6.
Management information systems.
The departments shall work toward integration of management information systems to administer the program and to perform the functions provided in this subsection.
7.
Evaluation process.
The departments shall develop an evaluation process for the program that includes:
8.
Audits; financial reports.
The departments shall provide access to their books, records, reports, information and financial papers for federal and state audits for fiscal and programmatic purposes and shall cooperate with all requests for the purposes of auditing. Auditing must be done annually and may be retrospective as determined by the auditor. Reports resulting from audits are public information.
9.
Reports.
The department shall report by January 1st of each year to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters on the following matters:
10.
Reporting on children's crisis services.
11.
Statewide child psychiatry telehealth consultation service.
The department shall, to the extent funding allows, establish a statewide child psychiatry telehealth consultation service known as the Maine Pediatric and Behavioral Health Partnership Program, referred to in this subsection as "the program," to support primary care physicians who are treating children and adolescent patients and need assistance with diagnosis, care coordination, medication management and any other necessary behavioral health questions to serve their patients. The program must include the following:

Legislative History

PL 1997, c. 790, §A1 (NEW). PL 1997, c. 790, §A3 (AFF). PL 2001, c. 354, §3 (AMD). PL 2001, c. 439, §KKK1 (AMD). RR 2003, c. 2, §§110,111 (COR). PL 2003, c. 367, §1 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 689, §B6 (REV). PL 2019, c. 343, Pt. DDD, §§4-8 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 191, §§1, 2 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 676, Pt. A, §48 (AMD). PL 2023, c. 339, §1 (AMD).