Ch. 270                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 270
(House Bill 509)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Nutritional Supplements for Phenylketonuria Foods arid Food
Products for Inherited Metabolic Diseases

FOR the purpose of requiring certain health insurance policies and, nonprofit health
service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include coverage for certain
nutritional supplements foods and food products for the treatment of
phenylketonuria certain inherited metabolic diseases under certain circumstances;
defining certain terms; and generally relating to mandatory health insurance
coverage for nutritional supplements certain foods and food products for
phenylketonuria certain inherited metabolic diseases under certain circumstances.

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 354PP, 470FF, and 477PP

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 19-705.5

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

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

Article 48A - Insurance Code

354PP.

(A) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2) (I) "INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE" MEANS A DISEASE CAUSED
BY AN INHERITED ABNORMALITY OF BODY CHEMISTRY.

(II) "INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASE" INCLUDES A DISEASE FOR
WHICH THE STATE SCREENS NEWBORN BABIES.

(3) (I) "LOW PROTEIN MODIFIED FOOD PRODUCT" MEANS A FOOD
PRODUCT THAT IS:

1. SPECIALLY FORMULATED TO HAVE LESS THAN 1 GRAM
OF PROTEIN PER SERVING; AND

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