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Ch. 301
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2005 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 301
(Senate Bill 333)
AN ACT concerning
Health Insurance - Treatment of Morbid Obesity
FOR the purpose of altering the duties of the Task Force to Study Utilization Review
of the Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity; altering the date a certain report of
the Task Force is provided to certain committees of the General Assembly;
requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Insurance
Administration to provide staffing for the Task Force; requiring the Maryland
Insurance Administration to annually provide a certain report to certain
committees of the General Assembly; repealing the termination date of a certain
provision of law mandating coverage of the surgical treatment of morbid obesity;
requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to adopt certain regulations
regarding the utilization review of primary bariatric surgery; and generally
relating to the surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-839
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2004 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Chapter 486 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 2004
Section 2, 3, and 4
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Insurance
15-839.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "Body mass index" means a practical marker that is used to assess
the degree of obesity and is calculated by dividing the weight in kilograms by the
height in meters squared.
(3) "Morbid obesity" means a body mass index that is:
(i) greater than 40 kilograms per meter squared; or
(ii) equal to or greater than 35 kilograms per meter squared with a
comorbid medical condition, including hypertension, a cardiopulmonary condition,
sleep apnea, or diabetes.
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