Maine 2025 2025-2026 Regular Session

Maine Senate Bill LD790 Introduced / Bill

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document	No. 790S.P. 353	In Senate, March 4, 2025
An Act to Prevent Denial of Patient Access Through Collaborative 
Care
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 27, 2025.  Referred to the Committee 
on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered 
printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot. Page 1 - 132LR1720(01)
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2 is enacted to read:
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4 A health care practitioner may not deny a patient access to health care services to be 
5 performed by another health care practitioner when those services are within the lawful 
6 scope of practice of the other health care practitioner.
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8 This bill prohibits a health care practitioner from denying a patient access to health care 
9 services to be performed by another health care practitioner when those services are within 
10 the lawful scope of practice of the other health care practitioner.
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