BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor                        2113

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Benefits for Services
of Nurse Midwives

FOR the purpose of requiring that after a certain date every
health insurer, including profit, nonprofit, and group
and blanket health insurers, who proposes to issue a
certain health insurance policy in Maryland shall
include offer the option of providing benefits for
expenses arising from the care, treatment, or services
rendered by a nurse midwife; providing that the State
medical assistance program {Medicaid) shall may pay for
services rendered by a nurse midwife; requiring the
State Board of Examiners of Nurses to maintain certain
lists; establishing a utilization Peer Review Committee
to be appointed by the Board; and relating generally to
health insurance policies for the services of nurse
midwives.

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 354M, 470L, 477Q, and 490A-2

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1972 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 43 - Health

Section 42(a)(2)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 43 - Health

Section 294(a)(18), 295(f), and 301A

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1971 Replacement Volume and 1977 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 48A — Insurance Code

354M.

(A) IN THIS SECTION "NURSE MIDWIFE" MEANS A LICENSED
REGISTERED NURSE WHO HAS BEEN CERTIFIED BY THE AMERICAN
COLLEGE OF NURSE-MIDWIVES AS A NURSE MIDWIFE.

(B) AFTER JULY 1, 1979 EVERY NONPROFIT HEALTH INSURER
WHO PROPOSES TO ISSUE, RENEW, MODIFY, ALTER, AMEND, OR
REISSUE A HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY IN MARYLAND SHALL INCLUDE