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Community Services Trust Fund established for funds from
long-term lease or sale of property and equipment of
Developmental Disabilities or Mental Hygiene Administration
facilities; Waiting List Equity Fund and Mental Hygiene

Community-Based Services Fund, termination repealed ................ 646 3665

675 3822
Generic substitutions for prescription drugs under the Medical
Assistance Program and the Pharmacy Assistance Program,

provisions altered............................................................................... 102 1363

Health maintenance organization external review of quality,
requirements altered; physician credentialing organizations and

primary source verification systems, provisions added .................... 529 3044

Mammography educational materials, availability to female hospital

patients, requirements added ............................................................ 365 2494

Maryland Partnership for Long-Term Care Program, implementation
postponed until federal law allows an exemption from estate
recovery requirements for medicaid recipients granted resources

exclusion under program ................................................................... 442 2749

Medical Assistance Managed Care Program -

Implementation and structural framework, quality standards,
inclusion of historic providers, solvency, and mental health

services, provisions added .............................................................. 352 2426

Study of impact on primary care providers and freestanding
facilities of laws and regulations authorizing or requiring
enrollment of medicaid recipients into managed care plans,

requirements added........................................................................ 549 3113

Milk shelf life studies, requirements repealed; milk sell-by period,

extended.............................................................................................. 691 3875

Public health laboratories, number and location requirements altered 105 1371
"Second chance homes" pilot project to provide supervised living
arrangements and health care to needy teen parents and their

children, provisions added ................................................................. 351 2370

Tuberculosis, authority of Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to

take actions to control, provisions added ......................................... 104 1370

Health Claims Arbitration SEE Medical Malpractice
Health Insurance SEE Insurance - Health
Health Maintenance Organizations —

Childbirth, coverage for hospitalization and home visits,

requirements altered .......................................................................... 396 2611

397 2620
Discrimination -

Based on domestic violence, prohibited........................................... 131 1452

132 1455
Based on gender, race, age, religion, national origin, or disability,

prohibited........................................................................................         47 1091

External review of quality, requirements altered; physician
credentialing organizations and primary source verification

systems, provisions added .................................................................. 529 3044

Genetic tests, use by insurers to affect insurance policies or contracts,
prohibited ...........................................................................................         24 1029

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