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Bloodborne pathogen standard, implementation and modification,
provisions added; report required .................................................
Carrier .requirement that to serve on a provider panel a provider
must also serve on another provider panel, prohibition and
exception added; notice to carrier of provider's intent to
terminate participation on provider panel, requirements added .
Continuity of care with primary care provider for medical
Credentialing of physicians, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives,
and social workers, study of policies, procedures, and
requirements and report required.................................................
Dent-Care Program established to provide education loan
assistance grants to dentists who treat medical assistance
Dental equipment in underserved areas, property tax credit
Dentists, education requirements for license, exemption from
waiver prohibition, provisions added ............................................
Direct service workers employed by community-based providers
in the developmental disabilities, mental health, and addictions
fields, plan to increase salary and benefits packages, report
Early childhood literacy grants to provide books for distribution at
well child visits in health care settings and to train pediatricians
in literacy promotion, provisions added .......................................
Health care benefit providers, provision of information on carrier's
provider panel members to prospective, new, and existing
enrollees, requirements altered.....................................................
Health Care Commission -
Authority to develop payment system for all State health care
practitioners, repealed; information on charges by
practitioners and reimbursements from payors, requirements
added..........................................................................................
Excess fund balance, return to health care providers through
lower professional fees, provisions added .................................
Fees assessed on hospitals, nursing homes, payors, and health
care practitioners and Health Services Cost Review
Commission user fees assessed on hospitals, restrictions on
Health care provider, definition expanded to include persons
regulated in another state to provide health care services for
purposes of making records of health care providers admissible
Health insurance internal appeal process for members and
providers to dispute coverage decisions by carrier, and filing of
complaints with Insurance Commissioner, requirements added .
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2101
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