Ch. 462                                    1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

enacted by Chapter 9 of the Acts of 1993; modifying the user fee assessment by
adding certain office facilities as on assessable entity; altering the assessment
proportions of the budget for the Maryland Health Care Access and Cost
Commission that various groups shall fund; specifying how certain entities shall be
assessed under certain circumstances; requiring the Health Services Cost Review
Commission, the Health Resources Planning Commission, and the Office of
Licensing and Certification in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to
provide certain data and information to the Commission; authorizing the
Commission, for a certain fiscal year, to make a certain assessment on office
facilities; authorizing the Office of Licensing and Certification to collect a certain
assessment on office facilities under certain circumstances; providing for the
application of this Act; providing for the effective date of this Act; providing for the
termination of this Act; and generally relating to modifying the user fee assessment.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 48A - Insurance Code
Section 490R

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-1501(h) and 19-1515
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

490R.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2)     "Health benefit plan" has the meaning stated in § 698 of this article.

(3)     "Payor" means:

(i) A health insurer or nonprofit health service plan that holds a
certificate of authority and provides health insurance policies or contracts in this State
under this article;

(ii) A health maintenance organization that is licensed to operate in
the State; or

(iii) A third party administrator or any other entity under contract with
a Maryland business to administer health care benefits.

(4) "THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR" MEANS ANY PERSON REGISTERED
AS AN ADMINISTRATOR UNDER THIS ARTICLE.

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