INDEX

In vitro fertilization, benefit provisions

altered........................................

Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Corporation,
name changed from Maryland Life and Health
Insurance Guaranty Association; relationship

to State clarified; powers altered.............

Long-term care insurance, provisions generally

added..........................................

Medicare supplement policies, amendments added as
required by amendments to the federal Social

Security Act...................................

Mental illness and emotional disorders coverage,

termination date extended......................

Nonduplication provisions or provisions to
coordinate benefits with intensive care
policies which do not provide expense-incurred

benefits, prohibitions added...................

Pharmaceutical products, amount of reimbursement,

provisions added...............................

Pooling by public entities in order to purchase,

provisions added...............................

Major medical equipment licensing requirements,

termination date extended........................

Medical Assistance Program, evaluation,

establishment of State policy, and managed care

pilot programs, provisions added.................

Medical laboratory permit requirements, exceptions

for physicians, provisions altered...............

Nursing homes, civil money penalties for serious or
life-threatening deficiencies, provisions added..
Organ or tissue donor status of hospital patient,
determination as part of admission procedures,

requirement repealed.............................

People's Community Health Center, bond funds for...
Publicly intoxicated persons and persons with
alcohol or drug abuse problems, evaluation and

treatment provisions altered.....................

Radiological Health, Center for, appropriation to..
Sales and use tax exemption for wig or hairpiece
needed as a result of medical treatment,

provisions added.................................

Smoking prohibited in hospitals, provisions added..
Statewide drug information center and consumer
hotline, establishment by University of Maryland

School of Pharmacy encouraged....................

Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of —

Appropriation to...................................

Cholesterol testing, permit provisions added.......

Chapter

Page

470	3012
564	3520
681	3966
474	3027
552	3452
781	4252
797	4339
765	4188
32	1594
614	3702
330	2585
134	1897
342	2618
680	3964
782	4255
14	1449
339	2612
419	2842
JR7	4522
14	1368
	1468
	1510
	1529
	1556
556	3466

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