Hornbeam Health

Maine Regulation Digest / MaineCare Section 20 / 1 July 2023

Hornbeam reads MaineCare's publications every night and records what changed, quoting the source.

Update the Section 20 service name from Community Membership to Community Support.

Update the Section 20 service name from Community Membership to Community Support, effective 1 July 2023, in MaineCare Section 20.

§20 · effective 1 July 2023 · detected 2026-08-12

Source: [Section 19 Waiver Amendment] Attention Section(s) 19 and 20 Providers: Section 1915(c) Waiver Appendix K Flexibility Guidance

What MaineCare wrote

The Department adds Community Support (formerly called Community Membership) services as follows:

What it means for a Maine agency

MaineCare renamed a Section 20 service, effective 1 July 2023. What the manual called Community Membership is now called Community Support. The Department’s own wording is that it “adds Community Support (formerly called Community Membership) services,” which names the old term and the new one as the same service rather than two.

For an agency billing Section 20, this is a change of vocabulary. Community Support is the term MaineCare now uses for the service. Hornbeam’s record of this notice carries one change, the name, so no procedure code, unit or rate moved with it.

The guidance carrying the rename is dated 31 October 2023, four months after the date it takes effect. It does not say whether records written under the old name need updating, and it carries no change request number.

Every value in this change

Every value in this change.
Applies toWhatWasNow
Applies toCommunity Support Whatname# WasCommunity Membership NowCommunity Support

Every change on record in MaineCare Section 20

When this changes

Hornbeam sends one message when a change is confirmed, with the quote and the link.

Subscribe by email Atom feed

No marketing. One message per confirmed change.

Sources last checked 2026-09-02 04:24 EDT