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ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor
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S.B. 716
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federally qualified health centers Federally Qualified Health Centers, the
purchase of capital equipment for federally qualified health centers Federally
Qualified Health Centers, and the planning, design, and construction of
federally qualified health centers Federally Qualified Health Centers; requiring
the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to make certain
recommendations and adopt certain regulations; providing for the grant an
application process; authorizing the Board of Public Works to make certain
funds available for a State grant under certain circumstances; providing certain
terms, conditions, and limitations on the allocation allocations, use, and amount
of State grants; prohibiting proceeds of a grant from being used for certain
religious purposes; requiring the Governor to include a certain amount of
funding in the capital budget for the Federally Qualified Health Centers Grant
Program; authorizing the Board of Public Works to adopt certain regulations;
authorizing the State, under certain circumstances, to recover a certain portion
of the State funds expended; authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Public
Works to file a civil complaint; providing for a certain judicial proceeding, a
temporary lien and liens to enforce the State's right of recovery, and the priority
of the proceedings, the issuance of a final judgment if a default has occurred,
and the disposition of the recovery of funds and the lien; authorizing the
Department to adopt certain regulations; providing that certain provisions of
law do not apply to certain nonprofit health service plans; requiring certain
nonprofit health service plans to subsidize grants to community health
resources support the costs of the Community Health Resources Commission ,
subsidize the Maryland Pharmacy Discount Program, provide funding for a
unified data information system, and transfer certain funds beginning in a
certain fiscal year for certain purposes; requiring certain insurance carriers to
reimburse certain providers for certain services to the extent required under
federal law; requiring a health maintenance organization to reimburse a
community health resource for certain services; providing that a certain
nonprofit health maintenance organization is not subject to the insurance
premium tax; requiring the Maryland Community Health Resources
Commission, in collaboration with community health resources and local health
departments, to develop a specialty care network for certain individuals;
requiring the specialty care network to meet certain requirements; requiring
individuals who receive care through the specialty care network to pay for
specialty care according to a sliding scale fee; requiring specialty care to be
subsidized by certain funds, subject to the State budget; requiring the Maryland
Community Health Resources Commission to provide to community health
resources subsidies for specialty care; requiring a certain nonprofit health
maintenance organization to transfer certain funds to a certain Medical
Assistance Program Account; providing that beginning in a certain fiscal year, a
certain amount of money allocated to the Medical Assistance Program Account
that exceeds the amount needed to increase certain health care provider rates
shall be transferred, in accordance with the State budget, to the Community
Health Resources Commission Fund for a certain purpose; requiring a certain
nonprofit health maintenance organization to file a certain report with the
Maryland Insurance Commissioner on or before a certain date; requiring the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to transfer to the Community Health
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