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LD1785 • 2025

An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts

An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Michelle Boyer
Last action
2025-06-12
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts

An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts Sponsor: Representative Michelle Boyer Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts Sponsor: Representative Michelle Boyer Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR2316(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR2316(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 1785 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-12 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-10 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-10 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  4. 2025-06-05 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-05-21 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-05-21 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-05-15 Committee

    Work Session Held; TABLED

  8. 2025-04-24 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care Provider Contracts
Sponsor:
Representative Michelle Boyer
Reference committee:
Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR2316(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 1196 - L.D. 1785
An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Contact
Information for Employees Responsible for Negotiating Health Care
Provider Contracts
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 24-A MRSA §4303, sub-§18, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2013, c. 399, §1, is
amended to read:
B. Upon the provider's request at the time a contract for a preferred provider
arrangement is offered, the following must be provided to a provider for review:
(1) The fee schedule or, if there is not a fee schedule for one or more of the services
covered under the contract, the terms under which payment is determined. A
carrier may require a provider to execute a nondisclosure agreement covering the
information provided under this subparagraph; and
(2) The identity of all carriers for which the provider is agreeing to provide
services to health plan enrollees.; and
(3) Contact information for the carrier's employee responsible for negotiating all
contract terms with the provider, including, but not limited to, the fee schedule.
Contact information provided under this subparagraph must include, at a
minimum, the position title of the carrier's employee, the employee's telephone
number and the employee's e-mail address. A carrier shall update this contact
information on the carrier's electronic portal for providers or, if the carrier does not
have an electronic portal, by other means of electronic notification to providers.
APPROVED
JUNE 12, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
295
PUBLIC LAW