Resolve, To Remove Barriers to Smoking Cessation Treatment in Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 1421
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: MARTIN, PRIEST, BRAUTIGAM, CROCKETT, FAIRCLOTH

Legislative Document 
No. 1421 
S.P.499 
March 15, 2007 
Resolve, To Remove Barriers to Smoking Cessation Treatment in 
Maine 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Senator MARTIN of Aroostook. 
JOY J. O'BRIEN 
Secretary of the Senate 
Cosponsored by Representative PRIEST of Brunswick and Representatives: BRAUTIGAM of 
Falmouth, CROCKETT of Augusta, FAIRCLOTH of Bangor. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Sec. 1. Department of Health and Human Services to adopt best practice 
treatment for tobacco cessation. Resolved: That no later than January 1, 2008 the 
Department of Health and Human Services shall adopt rules to implement for MaineCare 
the best practice treatment as delineated in the United States Department of Health and 
Human Services, Public Health Service clinical practice guideline "Treating Tobacco Use 
and Dependence," first published in 2000, to reduce the barriers to effective tobacco 
cessation treatment through reimbursement to clinicians that provide intermediate and 
intensive counseling services and through payment for all United States Food and Drug 
Administration approved tobacco cessation first-line pharmacotherapies; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Bureau of Insurance to adopt rules to mandate that insurers cover 
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tobacco cessation treatment. Resolved: That no later than January 1, 2008 the 
Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance shall adopt 
rules to mandate that an insurer offering health insurance provide a standard insurance 
benefit for tobacco cessation treatment that is the same ac; that provided by MaineCare on 
January 1, 2008; and be it further 
Sec. 3. 
Department of Health and Human Services and Bureau of 
Insurance to collaborate with the Maine Center for Disease Control and 
Prevention. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services and the 
Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance shall 
collaborate with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Partnership for a 
Tobacco-Free Maine to develop a design of a model tobacco cessation treatment program 
and to ensure the effective implementation of the tobacco cessation treatment insurance 
benefit required under section 2. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve: 
1. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules to 
implement for MaineCare the best practice treatment as delineated by the United 
States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service to reduce 
the barriers to effective tobacco cessation treatment; 
2. Directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of 
Insurance to adopt rules to mandate that an insurer providing health insurance 
provide a standard insurance benefit for tobacco cessation treatment that is the same 
as that provided by MaineCare; and 
3. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of 
Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to collaborate with the 
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Partnership for a Tobacco-Free 
Maine to develop a design of a model tobacco cessation treatment program and to 
ensure the effective implementation of the tobacco cessation treatment insurance 
benefit.