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Health care providers, communication with patients on coverage,
treatment options, or provider's reimbursment arrangements with
insurer, reimbursement by insurer, contract restrictions on insurer
liability, practice profiling, uniform voucher forms, and grievance

appeal, provisions added ................................................................... 548 3107

Health insurance loss ratio benchmark established; rate filing
requirements altered; penalties authorized for overdue filings of
expense and loss ratio information; disclosure of loss ratio
information to contract holders and transmission of information to

Health Care Access and Cost Commission, required ...................... 425 2698

Health maintenance organization external review of quality,
requirements altered; physician credentialing organizations and

primary source verification systems, provisions added .................... 529 3044

Health Resources Planning Commission -

Appropriation to ................................................................................          13 824

938
Fund established; classification and compensation of officers and

limit on total assessed user fees, provisions amended ................. 273 1794

Health Services Cost Review Commission, appropriation to .............          13 824

892
900
937
938
Medical Assistance Managed Care Program -
Impact on primary care providers and freestanding facilities of laws
and regulations authorizing or requiring enrollment of medicaid

recipients into managed care plans, study required..................... 549 3113

Implementation and structural framework, quality standards,
inclusion of historic providers, solvency, and mental health

services, provisions added .............................................................. 352 2426

Rate adjustments under comprehensive standard health benefit plan,
restrictions altered; report on feasibility of requiring carriers to
charge rates that are within 33 % of community rate, provisions
added; renewal of plans issued prior to July 1, 1996, provisions

clarified ............................................................................................... 288 1823

Hearings —
Calvert County -
Economic Development Loan Fund, authority to establish,

provisions added ............................................................................. 444 2752

Cecil County -
Road construction districts, authorization to establish, provisions

added............................................................................................... 658 3732

Charles County -
Right to farm or engage in agricultural or forestry operations,
authority of county commissioners to enact ordinance or

regulations protecting, provisions added ......................................         64 1128

Contested case hearings, telephone or video conferencing, provisions

amended .............................................................................................         96 1343

Educational placements of students with disabilities, review
procedures altered ............................................................................. 190 1599

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