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Health Planning and Cost Review —
Continuing care facilities that qualify for certificate of need
exemption, direct admission of subscriber into comprehensive
care nursing bed, termination of provisions repealed.................
Health care provider reimbursement, termination date extended
for noncontracting provider HMO rates, and study required on
reimbursement by commercial insurers and self-pay patients;
study required on HMO use of nurse practitioners to provide
primary care services .....................................................................
Health Services Cost Review Commission -
Appropriation to.............................................................................
Fund, transfer of funds to General Fund .....................................
Maryland Health Insurance Plan and Fund, established for
medically uninsurable individuals; Short-Term Prescription
Drug Subsidy Plan altered to be Senior Prescription Drug
Program for low income Medicare beneficiaries; location of
nonprofit health service plan headquarters, requirements added
Reimbursement for prescription drugs under the Pharmacy
Assistance Program, reimbursement rates for the Medical
Assistance and Children's Health Programs and the public
mental health system, and pharmacy cost containment
measures, provisions altered and added ......................................
Hearing Aids - -
State Board of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid
Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists, termination
date extended, and evaluation deadline altered ..........................
Hearings —
Air quality operating permits issued pursuant to Title V of the
Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, standing to seek
judicial review of final decisions, expanded; provisions for
conduct of judicial review, altered; contested case hearings,
Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, established to preserve,
protect, and improve water quality and natural habitat of the
Atlantic Coastal Bays and their tributaries; local program
requirements added; Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
Boxing and wrestling tax assessments, appeals, provisions added .
Catastrophic health emergencies, powers and duties of the
Governor and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
and disease surveillance and response program, provisions
added...............................................................................................
Charles County -
New school capacity financing mechanism, including new school
capacity construction bonds and fair share school construction
excise tax, established; impact fee provisions repealed ...........
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439
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153
464
209
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438
433
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476
586
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1152
2004
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3559
1531
3710
1757
3294
3296
3248
1759
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3797
4259
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