PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor Ch. 107

CHAPTER 107
(House Bill 598)

AN ACT concerning

Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement for Medical Screening Services

FOR the purpose of providing for the continuation of a certain requirement that health
maintenance organizations reimburse a hospital emergency facility and provider for
certain medical screening services rendered; repealing a provision relating to the
abrogation, on a certain date and under certain circumstances, of a requirement
that health maintenance organizations reimburse a hospital emergency facility and
provider for certain medical screening services rendered; repealing a requirement
that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene work with the Maryland Health
Care Access and Cost Commission to develop a bundled payment for medical
screening; making this Act an emergency measure; requiring the Health Services Cost
Review Commission to conduct a certain study and report by a certain date; providing
for the termination of a provision of this Act; and generally relating to reimbursement
for medical screening services by a health maintenance organization.

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 19-712.5(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

BY repealing

Chapter 503 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1996
Section 5

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

19-712.5.

(c) A health maintenance organization shall reimburse a hospital emergency
facility and provider, less any applicable co-payments, for medical screening services
rendered to meet the requirements of the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and
Active Labor Act.

(C) A HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION SHALL REIMBURSE A HOSPITAL
EMERGENCY FACILITY AND PROVIDER, LESS ANY APPLICABLE CO-PAYMENTS. FOR
MEDICAL SCREENING SERVICES RENDERED TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT AND ACTIVE LABOR ACT.

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