HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                  3503

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1981 Supplement)

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

Article 48A - Insurance Code

354X.

EVERY HOSPITAL MEDICAL OR MAJOR MEDICAL INSURANCE
CONTRACT OR CERTIFICATE DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY
WITHIN THIS STATE BY A NONPROFIT HEALTH SERVICE ORGANIZATION
PLAN, INCLUDING BOTH INDIVIDUAL POLICIES AND GROUP POLICIES,
SHALL INCLUDE BENEFITS FOR INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT EXPENSES
ARISING FROM ORTHODONTICS, ORAL SURGERY, OTOLOGIC,
AUDIOLOGICAL AND SPEECH/LANGUAGE TREATMENT INVOLVED IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF BIRTH DEFECTS KNOWN AS CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES
CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT PALATE.

470Q.

EVERY INDIVIDUAL HOSPITAL OR MAJOR MEDICAL INSURANCE
POLICY WRITTEN ON AN EXPENSE INCURRED BASIS, WHICH IS
DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY WITHIN THIS STATE, SHALL
INCLUDE BENEFITS FOR INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT EXPENSES
ARISING FROM ORTHODONTICS, ORAL SURGERY, OTOLOGIC,
AUDIOLOGICAL, AND SPEECH/LANGUAGE TREATMENT INVOLVED IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF BIRTH DEFECTS KNOWN AS CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES
CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT PALATE.

477W.

EVERY HOSPITAL OR MAJOR MEDICAL INSURANCE POLICY OR
CERTIFICATE WRITTEN ON AN EXPENSE INCURRED BASIS, WHICH IS
DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY WITHIN THIS STATE, SHALL
INCLUDE BENEFITS FOR INPATIENT OR OUTPATIENT EXPENSES
ARISING FROM ORTHODONTICS, ORAL SURGERY, OTOLOGIC,
AUDIOLOGICAL AND SPEECH/LANGUAGE TREATMENT INVOLVED IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF BIRTH DEFECTS KNOWN AS CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES
CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT PALATE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1982.

Approved June 1, 1982.

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