Health Resources Planning Commission, Maryland, appropriation to

Health Services Cost Review Commission -

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

User fees and job classification and compensation of officers,
provisions altered ...........................................................................

Hospital services rendered, all insurers required to pay claims on the
basis of the rate approved by the Health Services Cost Review
Commission, provisions clarified .......................................................

Long Term Care Program, Maryland Partnership for, established ....

Medical Care Policy Administration, appropriation to.......................

Referral of patients by a health care practitioner to an entity in which
the practitioner has a beneficial interest or a compensation
agreement, and their reimbursement through insurance,
prohibitions added ............................................................................

Residential service agency licensing provisions, termination date
repealed; comprehensive study and report on community-based
long term care services, required.......................................................

User fees assessed by the Health Resources Planning Commission,
continuation and study, provisions added; certificate of need
application fees, requirements added..............................................

Utilization review programs, certification and recertification

requirements, provisions amended....................................................

Hearing Aids --

Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language
Pathologists, State Board of, termination, date extended and
membership and authority provisions altered; licensing and
regulation requirements altered.......................................................

Notice of cancellation provided to purchaser at time of delivery,

required language altered..............................................................,

Hearings --

Alcohol and drug abuse facilities, opportunity for local governments
and private citizens to comment before certification, provisions.
added.................................................................................................

Contested case hearings under the Administrative Procedure Act,
provisions altered.............................................................................

Fuel adjustment charges and purchased gas adjustments, frequency of
public evidentiary hearings on; decreased ........................................

Health, juvenile, or correctional services facilities owned or operated
by the State, change in use, purpose, or function, notice and
hearing requirement's added................................................................

Insurance Commissioner, delegation of hearing authority, provisions
added..................................................................................................

Interpreters for deaf persons in court or agency contested case
proceedings, payment for costs required to be made in accordance
with the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act, provisions added

Motor vehicle law, heating procedures revised ..................................

Racing Commission, adjudicatory proceedings, de novo hearing
before the whole when hearing committee unable to reach a
unanimous decision, provisions added; delegation of authority,
provisions altered ...............................................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

8	382
8	382
136	1277
41 513 8	983 2612 385
376	2068
354	1942
186	1374
99	1211
448	2396
183	1369
485	2531
59	1017
103	1217
417	2303
56	1011
600 621	2988 3040
102	1216