Ch. 529                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

3-407.

A licensed chiropractor may use a trade name in connection with the practice of
chiropractic provided that:

(1)     The use of the trade name is not deceptive or misleading;

(2)     The advertisement in which the trade name appears includes the name
of the licensed chiropractor or the name of the business entity providing the chiropractic
services being advertised as long as the advertisement includes the name of a licensed
chiropractor;

(3)     The name of the licensed chiropractor providing chiropractic services
appears on the billing invoices, stationery, and on any receipt given to a patient; [and]

(4)     Treatment records are maintained that clearly identify the licensed
chiropractor who has performed the chiropractic service for the patient; AND

(5)     THE USE OF A TRADE NAME IS PREAPPROVED BY THE BOARD
BEFORE USE.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved May 14, 1996.

CHAPTER 529
(House Bill 1207)

AN ACT concerning

Credcntialing Primary Source Verification Information and Procedures for Physicians
and External Review of Quality for Health Maintenance Organizations

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to waive the
requirement for an external review of the quality of the health services of a health
maintenance organization by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene if the
health maintenance organization has received a certain accreditation from a certain
external review organization under certain circumstances; specifying the
confidentiality of certain documents and information; authorizing the Secretary to
conduct certain inspections; altering a provision of law to establish that the
Secretary is the final authority for deciding the type of external review to be
employed by a health maintenance organization; altering a certain provision of law
related to medical review committees to add certain credentialing organizations;
requiring the Secretary to adopt certain regulations related to a credentialing
primary source verification information system; specifying the content of the
regulations; defining certain terms; and generally relating to authorizing the
Secretary to waive the requirement of an external review of the quality of health
services of a health maintenance organization and requiring the Secretary to

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