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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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Ch. 54
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COMPANY MAY ENTER PRIVATE PROPERTY TO OBTAIN WATER FROM A PRIVATE
WATER SOURCE, SUCH AS A PRIVATELY OWNED POND, LAKE, RIVER, STREAM, CANAL,
CISTERN, OR SWIMMING POOL, TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE OR OTHERWISE MITIGATE
THE EMERGENCY INCIDENT.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect October 1, 2006.
Enacted April 7, 2006.
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CHAPTER 54
(Senate Bill 636)
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AN ACT concerning
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Health Insurance - Credentialing and Recredentialing of Health Care
Providers —Change in Tax Identification Number- or Employer
FOR the purpose of altering the time period within which a health insurance carrier
must make a decision regarding the participation of a health care provider on
the carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain health insurance carriers from
requiring a health care provider participating on a carrier's provider panel to be
recredentialed based on a change in the federal tax identification number of the
health care provider or the health care provider's employer or a change in the
health care provider's employer under certain circumstances; requiring a certain
health care provider or the health care provider's employer to give certain notice
to a carrier not less than a certain number of days before the effective date of a
change in the federal tax identification number of the health care provider or
the health care provider's employer; requiring the notice to include a certain
statement, information, and form; requiring a carrier, within a certain number
of days after receipt of the notice, to acknowledge its receipt and issue a new
provider number to certain persons under certain circumstances; prohibiting a
carrier from terminating its existing contract with a health care provider or a
health care provider's employer based solely on a certain notice given to the
carrier; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration, in consultation with
certain other units of State government and the representatives of certain
persons, to make certain comparisons, identify certain mechanisms, and identify
ways to improve the credentialing system for health care providers used in the
State; requiring the Administration to report its findings to certain legislative
committees on or before a certain date; and generally relating to the
credentialing of health care providers.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-112(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2005 Supplement)
- 363 -
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