Printed on recycled paper 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) 1 2 is enacted to read: 3 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. 7 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. 8 9 10