Maine: AI health laws
2 entries on the map: 2 in force.
Payer and utilization review AI
Insurers', benefit managers' and utilization reviewers' use of AI, including prior authorization and claim denials.
Nothing in this category was found in the review of Sept 29, 2026.
Patient disclosure of AI use
Telling patients that AI is used in their care or in messages to them.
LD 1727, Public Law 2025, chapter 294, An Act to Ensure Transparency in Consumer Transactions Involving Artificial Intelligence
Bars using an AI chatbot or any other computer technology in trade and commerce in a way that may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer into believing they are dealing with a human unless the consumer is notified clearly and conspicuously that they are not, and makes a violation a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act.
Physician read. Since Sept. 24, 2025, anyone in Maine who uses an AI chatbot with consumers in trade and commerce, with no exception in the text for health care, must clearly and conspicuously tell them they are not dealing with a human whenever the chatbot could lead a reasonable consumer to believe otherwise.
Notes: HP 1154; enacts 10 MRSA section 1500-Y. The Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee voted Ought to Pass as Amended on May 8, 2025 and reported it out June 6, 2025. Approved June 12, 2025. No emergency clause or other effective date appears in the chaptered text, so the law took effect on the general effective date for nonemergency laws of the First Special Session of the 132nd Legislature, Sept. 24, 2025, as the Legislature's home page states. 'Artificial intelligence chatbot' means a software application, web interface or computer program that simulates human conversation and interaction through textual or aural communications. The Revisor's online statute page for section 1500-Y could not be found.
Also relevant here: LD 2082, Public Law 2025, chapter 687, An Act to Regulate the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Providing Certain Mental Health Services (under mental health AI).
Clinical decision and chatbot limits
Limits on AI in clinical decisions and on health chatbots, including AI presenting itself as a licensed professional.
Nothing in this category was found in the review of Sept 29, 2026.
Mental health AI
AI in therapy and mental health care.
LD 2082, Public Law 2025, chapter 687, An Act to Regulate the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Providing Certain Mental Health Services
Bars providing, advertising or offering therapy or psychotherapy to the public, including through internet-based AI, unless a licensed professional provides it, and lets licensees use AI for administrative and supplementary support in therapy or psychotherapy while keeping full responsibility for its interactions, outputs and data use, with written notice of the AI's use, purpose and handling of session data and the client's consent before AI provides supplementary support for a recorded or transcribed session, and without letting AI make independent therapeutic decisions, interact therapeutically with clients or generate treatment plans without the licensee's review and approval.
Physician read. Since July 29, 2026, a Maine physician who provides therapy or psychotherapy may not let AI make independent therapeutic decisions or interact therapeutically with clients, or let it generate therapeutic recommendations or treatment plans without the physician's review and approval, and before using AI for supplementary support on a recorded or transcribed session must tell the client in writing its purpose and how session data will be stored, retained, used for training and deleted, and obtain consent that acceptance of general terms of use cannot supply. Violations are grounds for board discipline, and offering therapy to the public, including through AI, without a licensed professional is an unfair trade practice.
Notes: HP 1397. Section 1 enacts 10 MRSA section 1500-EE (the ban, enforced under the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act; AI-based interventions used solely within research approved by an institutional review board are exempt). Its definition of licensed professional covers licensees under Title 32, chapters 31, 56, 83 and 119, licensees or certificate holders under chapter 81 authorized to provide therapy or psychotherapy, and physicians and physician associates licensed under chapter 36 or 48 who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Sections 2 to 8 enact the same practice rules in seven Title 32 licensing chapters (sections 2113, 2600-G, 3300-J, 3820-A, 6207-D, 7009 and 13870), with violations subject to discipline under 10 MRSA section 8003, subsection 5, and major substantive rulemaking by each board; sections 2600-G and 3300-J reach persons licensed or privileged to practice under chapter 36 (Osteopathic Physicians) and chapter 48 (Board of Licensure in Medicine), following those chapters' last existing sections (2600-F and 3300-I), and are not limited to physicians who specialize in mental disorders. A licensee may use AI for supplementary support only to the extent the notice and consent rules are met; licensees may not deny treatment solely because a client refuses consent to AI, and client waivers are void. Approved April 13, 2026 per the Legislature's bill page and the chaptered law; Holland & Knight reported April 8, 2026 and describes the law as reaching licensed mental health professionals. No emergency clause appears in the chaptered text, so the law took effect on the general effective date for the Second Regular Session, July 29, 2026, as the Legislature's home page states (the Legislature adjourned April 29, 2026). The Revisor's online statutes did not yet show sections 1500-EE or 3300-J. The lead 'LD 1857' is a different, unrelated bill.
Data and privacy
Health and consumer data, biometrics, and data used to train AI.
Nothing in this category was found in the review of Sept 29, 2026.
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