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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor Ch. 476
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CHAPTER 476
(House Bill 868)
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AN ACT concerning
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Health Insurance - Assignment) Transfer, or Subcontract Participation of
Health Care Provider Contract Providers on Provider Panels - Workers'
Compensation Services
FOR the purpose of prohibiting a health insurance carrier from assigning,
transferring, or subcontracting a health care provider's contract to an insurer
that offers workers' compensation coverage or to the Injured Workers' Insurance
Fund; prohibiting a carrier from taking certain actions against a health care
provider on the basis that the health care provider refused to agree to an
assignment, transfer, or subcontract of the provider's contract to an insurer that
offers workers' compensation coverage or to the Injured Workers' Insurance
Fund; and generally relating to assigning, transferring, or subcontracting of a
that uses a provider panel for health care services from requiring a health care
provider, as a condition of participation or continuation on a provider panel for
health care services, to also serve on a provider panel for workers' compensation
services; prohibiting a carrier from terminating, limiting, or otherwise impairing
a contract or agreement with a health care provider or terminating or limiting a
health care provider's employment based on the health care provider's election
not to serve on a certain provider panel: requiring a carrier to include a certain
disclosure in certain contracts or agreements; providing that this Act shall apply
to certain contracts or agreements: providing that this Act may not be construed
in a certain manner; and generally relating to the participation of health care
provider contract by a providers on provider panels of health insurance carrier
carriers.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-125
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2005 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Insurance
15-125.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) (i) "Carrier" means:
1. an insurer;
2. a nonprofit health service plan;
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