Domestic Violence Protocol Program, Pilot, development and
implementation in hospitals, provisions added ................................

Hospitals, inspection by the Department, scope expanded ................

Infant mortality reports to the Commission on Infant Mortality
Prevention, requirements added .......................................................

Medical test units, licensing and regulation, provisions repealed ......

Minority Business Enterprise Program expanded to include.............

Organ donorship, request by hospital administrator for consent to
donation of decedent's organs or tissues, guidelines, provisions
altered.................................................................................................

Waiting List Equity Fund and Mentals-Hygiene Community-Based
Services Fund, created to provide funds for community-based
services for developmentally disabled and mentally disordered
individuals leaving State residential centers and others eligible for

services................................................................................................

Health Claims Arbitration SEE Medical Malpractice
Health Insurance SEE Insurance - Health
.Health Maintenance Organizations - -

Health Care and Insurance Reform Act of 1993, corrections and
clarifications .......................................................................................

Mental illness, emotional disorders, drug abuse or alcohol abuse,
coverage for treatment under the same terms and conditions
provided for any other type of health care, requirements altered .

Obstetricians/gynecologists, classification as primary care physicians
or annual visits permitted without a referral for insurance
purposes, provisions added ................................................................

Physical therapy services, imposition of time limitations, prohibitions
added..................................................................................................

Preauthorization or approval of medical treatment delivered to a
patient, retrospective reversal by private review agent, prohibited .

Twenty-four hour telephone access by members and providers for

questions concerning after-hours care, requirements added ..........

Health Occupations - -

Acupuncture, State Board of, created; licensing and regulation
provisions added.................................................................................

Billing for the costs of removing tissues and organs for the purpose of
an anatomical donation, prohibitions added ....................................

Breach of service obligation of nurse, physician, or physician assistant
who received State or federal education funding, grounds for
disciplinary action, provisions altered ...............................................

Civil immunity of volunteers who are health care providers or
physicians providing health care services through charitable
organizations serving homeless or indigent persons, provisions
altered .................................................................................................

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Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of —

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

INDEX

Chapter

Page

8	827 922 932 947 968
558 368	2623 1961
391 26 423	2013 1030 2088
668	3022
401	2030
258	1708
2	2
492	2368
604	2757
599	2737
269	1762
620	2802
28	1036
622	2821
576	2672