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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 845

These benefits must be at least equal to the following
minimum requirements: (1) with respect to benefits for
confinement as an inpatient in a hospital, the period of
confinement for which benefits are payable shall be at
least thirty (30) days in any calendar year or benefit
period; (2) with respect to major medical expense
coverage, benefits, after the applicable deductible, for
covered expenses arising from all those services, other
than inpatient, which are rendered to treat acute mental
illness and emotional disorders, shall be at a rate which
is not less than [twenty—five] [[25 percent nor more
than]] [eighty] 50 percent of the benefits which the
policy provides for other types of illness.

477E.

(a) Every hospital or major medical insurance
policy delivered or issued for deliverance under this
subtitle to any person in this State must include
benefits for expenses arising from treatment of acute
mental illnesses and emotional disorders which in the
professional judgment of practitioners are subject to
significant improvement through short term therapy.
These benefits must be at least equal to the following
minimum requirements: (1) with respect to benefits for
confinement as an inpatient in a hospital, the period of
confinement for which benefits are payable shall be at
least thirty (30) days in any calendar year or benefit
period; (2) with respect to major medical expense
coverage, benefits, after the applicable deductible, for
covered expenses arising from all those services, other
than inpatient, which are rendered to treat acute mental
illness and emotional disorders, shall be at a rate which
is not less than [twenty—five] [[25 percent nor more
than]] [eighty] 50 percent of the benefits which the
policy provides for other types of illness.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 846
(Senate Bill 636)

AN ACT concerning

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