PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 396

CHAPTER 396
(Senate Bill 433)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Postpartum Mothers and Infants - Hospital Stays and Home Visits

FOR the purpose of requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to
provide inpatient hospitalization coverage for a mother and newborn for a certain
minimum length of time under certain circumstances; providing certain exceptions;
requiring certain home visits under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain
actions by health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and private review
agents; requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide
certain notice to certain individuals; requiring certain private review agents and
health maintenance organizations to authorize inpatient hospitalization coverage
for a mother and newborn for a certain minimum length of time under certain
circumstances; requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to
pay the additional cost of hospitalization for a newborn, under certain
circumstances, when a mother is required to remain in the hospital and requests
that the newborn remain in the hospital; requiring certain persons to provide
certain notice to certain individuals; defining a certain term; providing for the
application of this Act; and generally relating to the provision of inpatient
hospitalization coverage for a mother and newborn.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 48A - Insurance Code
Section 354F, 470H, and 477-I
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 48A - Insurance Code

Section 490FF

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 19-703(g)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-706(i) and 19-1305.4
Annotated Code of Maryland

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