Ch. 500

1995 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(15)   Develop joint legislative and executive branch strategies to persuade the
federal government to reconsider those policies that discourage the delivery of cost
effective health care to Program recipients;

(16)   Evaluate Departmental recommendations as to those persons whose
financial need or health care needs are most acute; [and]

(17)   Establish mechanisms for aggressively pursuing recoveries against third
parties permitted under current law and exploring additional methods for seeking to
recover other moneys expended by the Program; AND

(18)    TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO ASSURE THE QUALITY OF
HEALTH CARE PROVIDED BY MANAGED CARE PLANS..

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(a) (1) The Secretary shall administer the Maryland Medical Assistance
Program.

(2) The Program:                                                                       

(i) [Shall] SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS OF THE STATE BUDGET
AND THE AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL FUNDS, SHALL provide comprehensive medical
and other health care for [indigent individuals or medically indigent] individuals WHO
ARE CATEGORICALLY ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE BENEFITS UNDER

FEDERAL LAW [or both];

(ii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and the
availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all
pregnant women and, at a minimum, all children currently under the age of 1 whose
family income falls below 185 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the federal
law;

(iii) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget, family
planning service to women currently eligible for comprehensive medical care and other
health care under item (ii) of this paragraph for 5 years after the second month following
the month in which the woman delivers her child [.];

(iv) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and the
availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical and other health care for all children
from the age of 1 year up through and including the age of 5 years whose family income
falls below 133 percent of the poverty level, as permitted by the federal law;

(v) Shall provide, subject to the limitations of the State budget and the
availability of federal funds, comprehensive medical care and other health care for all
children born after September 30, 1983 who are at least 6 years of age but are under 19
years of age whose family income falls below 100 percent of the poverty level, as
permitted by federal law; [and]

(vi) May include bedside nursing care for eligible Program recipients;
AND

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