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Since 2022, Waldo County District 37 (Winterport, Part of Frankfort, Prospect, Stockton Springs, Searsport), District 38 (Unity, Thorndike, Knox, Jackson, Monroe, Brooks, Waldo, and Swanville), and District 62 (China, Windsor, Hibbits Gore,...

The McDermott digital health team highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate the delivery of virtual care.

Immigrant communities pay handsomely into our health care system only to have no access to it. Maine can do better.

Immigrant communities pay handsomely into our health care system only to have no access to it. Maine can do better.

I support of LD 199, “An Act to Improve the Health of Maine Residents by Removing Exclusions to the MaineCare Program.” This bill would ensure that all Mainers can access MaineCare regardless of their citizenship status. I speak as someone who has benefited personally from expanded MaineCare coverage. Before I qualified for MaineCare I was […]

To the Editor; Rep. Richard Evans, D-Dover-Foxcroft is running for re-election to the Maine House of Representatives to continue to be a leader for the people of Piscataquis County and the citizens of the State of Maine.

To the Editor; Rep. Richard Evans, D-Dover-Foxcroft is running for re-election to the Maine House of Representatives to continue to be a leader for the people of Piscataquis County and the citizens of the State of Maine.

AUGUSTA — The Senate approved Thursday a bill sponsored by Senator Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, authorizing a pilot project to provide nonmedical transportation services for people receiving certain services under MaineCare. An amended version of LD...

AUGUSTA — A bill sponsored by Senator Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, authorizing a pilot project to provide nonmedical transportation services for people receiving certain services under MaineCare, was approved Thursday by the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee. An amended version of LD 17, “Resolve, To Provide Rural Nonmedical Transportation Services to the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities Receiving Home and Community Benefits under the MaineCare Program,” received a un...

Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits. Share Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries. ...