Disinterments and reinterments of human remains, records of
permits, requirements altered ...........................................................

Escheat of decedent's estate, claim by relative for refund of payment
made to Department of Health and Mental Hygiene or local board
of education, required degree of relationship altered .....................

Family planning referrals for welfare recipients, provisions added ...

Health Care Reform Act of 1995, including coordinating the health
care regulatory commissions, revising the certificate of need
process, licensing freestanding ambulatory care facilities, subacute
care services, and financing hospital uncompensated care and
graduate medical education...............................................................

Hospice care programs, regulation requirements, penalties, and peer
review program, provisions added.....................................................

Insect Sting Emergency Treatment Program, established, including
certification of persons authorized to give injections ......................

Interagency State plan for transitioning students with disabilities,
established ..........................................................................................

Local health services, State funding for, requirements added ...........

Managed care plans, authorization to require medical assistance
recipients to enroll in, and quality assurance programs for,
provisions added.................................................................................

Medical laboratory licensing standards, provisions generally
amended; study and report of arrangements between providers and
medical laboratories exchanging service for referrals, required .....

Optometrists, diagnostically and therapeutically certified,
certification requirements, quality standards, and scope of practice,
provisions added; continuing education requirements for licensed
optometrists, provisions altered ........................................................

Participation in the Medical Assistance Program by all health care
practitioners as a condition of certification or licensure, study and
report required ...................................................................................

Surrender of State positions from the appropriated number for FY

1996, provisions added.......................................................................

Uniform forms for treatment plans for mental health and alcohol and
drug abuse for utilization review purposes, and for laboratory
referrals, provider vouchers, and consultation referrals,

requirements added ...........................................................................

Health Claims Arbitration SEE Medical Malpractice
Health Insurance SEE Insurance - Health
Health Maintenance Organizations —
Accessibility of covered services with reasonable safeguards with
respect to geographic locations, assurance required to be included
in quality of care standards ...............................................................

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Health and Mental Hygiene, Department of —

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

INDEX

Chapter

Page

7	436 526 538 552
401	2532
386 491	2484 2783
499	2865
153 154	1860 1863
551	3206
435 504	2606 2923
500	2891
465	2661
521	2958
604 605	3431 3450
7	565
577	3291
499	2865