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(23) Abrogates or forgives the copayment provisions
of any insurance policy, insurance contract, health prepayment
contract, health care plan, or nonprofit health service plan
contract by accepting the payment received from a third party as
full payment, unless the dentist discloses to the third party
that the patient's payment portion will not be collected.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved May 29, 1984.

CHAPTER 617

(House Bill 441)

AN ACT concerning

Family Support Services Program

FOR the purpose of establishing a program to provide family
support services for certain developmentally disabled
children and their families; defining certain terms;
requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to
establish and implement the program in a certain manner;
providing for a certain payment scale for reimbursement;
providing that the services offered by the program are in
addition to, but not duplicative of certain other available
State, federal, and local programs; providing for a certain
level of funding in certain fiscal years; and generally
relating to a family support services program for
developmentally disabled children and their families.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 15-201 through 15-204 to be under the new subtitle

"Subtitle 2. Family Support Services Program"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

SUBTITLE 2. FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM

15-201.