WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 507

(8)      EXCEPT FOR §§ 493 AND 497, SUBTITLE 32 OF THIS ARTICLE;

(9)      SUBTITLE 34 OF THIS ARTICLE;

(10)    SECTIONS 55 AND 55A OF THIS ARTICLE; AND

(11)    ANY OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE THAT:

(I)      ARE EXPRESSLY REFERRED TO IN THIS SUBTITLE; OR

(II)     EXPRESSLY REFER TO THIS SUBTITLE.

354A.

[(a-1)] (A) In any contract issued in this State by a nonprofit health service plan,
notwithstanding any limiting age stated in the policy, any unmarried child covered under
the policy as a dependent of an employee, member, or other covered person, and who is
chiefly dependent for support upon the employee, member, or other covered person, and
who, at the time of reaching the limiting age, is incapable of self-support because of
mental or physical incapacity that commenced prior to the child's attaining the limiting
age, shall continue to be covered under the certificate while remaining so dependent,
unmarried, and mentally or physically incapacitated, until such time as the coverage on
the employee, member, or other covered person upon whom such child is dependent
terminates.

(b) Any nonprofit health plan which provides pharmaceutical services shall grant
to any subscriber, member or beneficiary the right to have any prescription filled at the
pharmacy of the subscriber's, member's, or beneficiary's choice.

[354A.]

(C) No certificate or policy of sickness and accident insurance delivered or issued
for a deliverance after July 1, 1969 to any person in this State, including both individual
certificates or policies and group certificates or policies, which provide coverage for
tuberculosis or mental illness or any other illness, shall exclude payments or benefits for
treatment of such patients treated in hospitals or other institutions of the State of
Maryland or any county or municipality thereof, whether such hospitals or other
institutions be deemed charitable or otherwise.

354A-2.

EVERY NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE PLAN SHALL DISCLOSE ON ANY
DOCUMENT, STATEMENT, ANNOUNCEMENT, ADVERTISEMENT, OR IN ANY
REPRESENTATION PLACED BEFORE THE PUBLIC THAT THE NONPROFIT HEALTH
SERVICE PLAN IS A PRIVATE NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION.

355.

(a) No corporation subject to the provisions of this subtitle shall issue contracts
for the rendering of hospital, medical, chiropodial, chiropractic, pharmaceutical, dental,
psychological, or optometric service to subscribers until the Insurance Commissioner has,
by formal certificate or license, authorized it to do so. Application for such certificate of
authority or license shall be made on forms to be supplied by the Insurance Commissioner

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