Medical Examiner, Office of, appropriation to ...................................

Medical Malpractice --

Health Claims Arbitration Fund, established to pay fees of health
claims arbitrators ................................................................................

Health Claims Arbitration Office, appropriation to ...........................

Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland and
subsidiaries, restriction on the number of states in which it can
operate, altered ..................................................................................

Physician liability, consideration of standards of practice among
health care practitioners and prohibition of use of practice
parameters as evidence of standard of care, provisions added .......

Referral of patients by a health care practitioner to an entity in which
the practitioner has a beneficial interest or a compensation
agreement, and their reimbursement through insurance,
prohibitions added.............................................................................

Tort and Insurance Reform Oversight, Joint Committee on,

abolished..............................................................................................

Medical Records SEE Records
Medical Schools --

Access to primary health care manpower among underserved
populations and remote rural indigent communities, actions to
promote, recommended.....................................................................

Grants under the Health Manpower Shortage Incentive Grant
Program, Scholarship Administration required to use fees received
from the Physician Quality Assurance Board for, provisions added
Medical Waste SEE Refuse Disposal
Mental Health --

Baltimore City -

Kennedy-Krieger Institute, bond funds for......................................

Community Mental Health, Addiction, and Developmental
Disabilities Facilities Capital Program, recovery by State of funds
disbursed under, provisions amended ................................................

Community mental health facilities, bond funds for...........................

Dorchester County -

Mental health facility improvements, county bond funds for .........

Health insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of mental
illness, provision on the same terms and conditions as coverage for
physical illness, required....................................................................

Local mental health programs, accreditation considered as meeting
required standards, provisions added...............................................

Mental Hygiene Administration, appropriation to ..............................

Psychiatric medication, refusal provisions, termination date extended
Mental Retardation SEE Developmental Disabilities
Merit System —                                                                                 

Equal Employment Opportunity Program required to include all
employees in the State Personnel Management System, provisions
added ..................................................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

8	365
385 8	2101 307
348	1926
9	529
376	2068
112	1238
JR1 JR4	3125 3130
628	3076
493	2547
31 73	964 1115
484	2527
633	3094
187 8 135	1375 373 478 491 1276
241	1615