Ch. 397                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

Approved May 14, 1996.                     

CHAPTER 397
(House Bill 1271)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Mothers and Newborns - Minimum Length of Stay and Utilization

Review

FOR the purpose of requiring certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and
health maintenance organizations to provide inpatient hospitalization coverage for
a mother and newborn child for a certain minimum length of time under certain
circumstances; providing a certain exception; prohibiting a health insurer, nonprofit
health service plan, private review agent, and health maintenance organization from
impairing the participation of certain physicians in providing health care services
under certain circumstances; requiring private review agents and health
maintenance organizations to authorize a certain minimum length of inpatient
hospitalization for a mother and newborn child under certain circumstances;
requiring a private review agent or health maintenance organization to provide an
appeal of a certain adverse decision on an expedited basis under certain
circumstances; specifying the manner of the expedited appeal requiring certain
home visits under certain circumstances; defining a certain term; providing for the
application of this Act; and generally relating to requiring certain health insurers,
nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide a
certain minimum length of inpatient hospitalization for a mother and newborn child
and requiring private review agents and health maintenance organizations to
authorize a certain minimum length of inpatient hospitalization for a mother and
newborn child under certain circumstances.

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)

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