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...........................................................................

Volunteer health care providers and physicians working at charitable
organizations, insurance requirement to qualify for immunity from

civil liability, provisions repealed ......................................................

Health Planning and Cost Review —

Health Care Access and Cost Commission -
Appropriation to...............................................................................

Medical care data base, electronic claim clearinghouses, and
payment system, development and implementation dates altered;

calculation of payment system reimbursement, altered ...............

Health care policy, financing and regulation, appropriation to .........

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

Health maintenance organization (HMO) point-of-service option for
health care and dental benefits, patient continuum of care when
provider terminated from HMO panel, application process for
HMO panel of providers, and method of payment of provider by
insurance carrier, provisions altered.................................................

Health Resources Planning Commission, appropriation to ................

Health Services Cost Review Commission -

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

User fee provisions altered and Fund established...........................

Inpatient admission of patient in imminent danger to self or others,

adverse decision by private review agent, restrictions added..........

Maternity and newborn care, utilization review criteria and standards

for hospital services, including length of stay, requirements altered;

selection of infant's primary care provider prior to delivery, and

information on postpartum home visits, 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 ...........................................................................

User fee assessments on third party administrators, provisions
altered; determination of total user fee assessment on classes of

payors, provisions added....................................................................

Hearings —

Calvert County -
Special taxing districts, county commissioners authorized to
establish and to levy special taxes .................................................

Certificate of need process, evidentiary hearings, provisions altered .

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

577	3291
554	3217
7	456 554
341 7	2321 452 554
499	2865
604 605 7	3431 3450 452
7 319	452 2248
553	3216
502 503	2910 2917
577	3291
462	2651
537 499	3123 2865