WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                         Ch. 681

CHAPTER 681
(House Bill 1498)

AN ACT concerning

Insurance - Postpartum Coverage—Disclosure Child Wellness Services

FOR the purpose of requiring insurers and nonprofit health service plans to disclose
managed care and cost control features of coverage for coverage of postpartum
hospital stays and certain postpartum visits involving a health care provider;
requiring insurers and nonprofit health service plans periodically to make a study
and certain disclosures of certain postpartum benefits; requiring insurers and
nonprofit health service plans to mail to an insured certain information at the time
of the first reimbursement for a prenatal care visit; requiring the State Advisory
Council on Hereditary and Congenital Disorders to prepare and make available to
insurers and nonprofit health service plans certain educational materials; and
generally relating to disclosure of insurance coverage and other information
concerning postpartum health care requiring certain health insurers and nonprofit
health service plans issued or delivered in the State to include in the minimum
package of child wellness services certain visits for hereditary and metabolic
newborn screening and follow-up.

BY adding to

Article 48A—Insurance Code

Section 490W

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Health—General
Section 13-108
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1991 Replacement Volume)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article—Health—General

Section 19 716
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1990 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)
(As enacted by Chapter 9 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1993)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.
Article 48A - Insurance Code
Section 354KK(c), 470AA(c), and 477KK(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland

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