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State employees' and retirees' health insurance and prescription
drug programs, reports required...................................................
State retiree health care, appropriation for future costs of ...........
Students at higher education institutions who attend part-time as
a result of a disability, coverage requirements added .................
Temporary license to act as insurance producer for property,
casualty, life, or health insurance, issuance to certain
individuals, provisions repealed ....................................................
Treatment plan that is required by a private review agent to
conduct utilization review of services for treatment of mental
illness, emotional disorder, or substance abuse, provisions
concerning form of submitted plan, altered .................................
Universal Access to Quality and Affordable Health Care, Joint
Legislative Task Force on, termination date extended;
membership, subcommittee, and report provisions altered ........
Health Maintenance Organizations —
SEE ALSO Health Insurance
Accreditation, deemed status, and correction of deficiencies of
health care facilities and laboratories, provisions altered ..........
Carrier that denies coverage to individual in nongroup market,
required to provide name and address of individual denied
coverage, and other information, to Maryland Health Insurance
Plan (MHIP); premium rate for MHIP, provisions altered .........
Contracts with providers, ambulatory surgical facilities, or
hospitals, terms or conditions concerning reimbursement rate or
arrangement, prohibitions added ..................................................
Emergency inpatient or residential crisis services admissions for
treatment of mental, emotional, or substance abuse disorder,
private review agent determination for authorization or
certification, requirements added; adverse decision for
involuntary hospital admission, restrictions added.....................
Health insurance carrier requirement that health care provider
serving on a provider panel for health care services must also
serve on a provider panel for workers' compensation services,
prohibitions added and contract disclosure requirements added .
Health insurance carriers that use a provider panel, standards for
accessibility of covered services, update of provider information,
and referral to specialist not on provider panel, provisions
altered; network standard for in-network hospital-based
physician services, study and report required .............................
Home visits following a mastectomy or surgical removal of a
testicle, mandated insurance coverage for, termination date
repealed...........................................................................................
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216
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1011
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216
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1169
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395
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2138
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83
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619
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43
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221
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21
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125
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232
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1354
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242
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1412
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554
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2693
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331
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1785
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476
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2431
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597
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2821
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259
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1506
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