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Practicing without a license, penalties and injunctive actions,
provisions added ............................................................................. 311 1871
Communication with patients about insurance coverage, treatment
options, or provider's reimbursment arrangements with insurer,
reimbursement by insurer, contract restrictions on insurer liability,
practice profiling, uniform voucher forms, and grievance appeal,
provisions added or altered ............................................................... 548 3107
Community Services Reimbursement Rate Commission, established . 593 3413
Continuing care at home providers, registration and regulation,
provisions added................................................................................. 146 1485
Contracts between nonprofit health service plans and health care
providers, submission for approval to Insurance Commissioner,
requirements repealed ....................................................................... 645 3663
Criminal injuries compensation claims, negotiated settlements with
health care providers, provisions added ........................................... 623 3579
Discrimination against enrollees of health networks on the basis of
gender, race, age, religion, national origin, or disability, prohibited 47 1091
Emergency services provider reimbursement by health maintenance
organizations, provisions altered; determination of appropriate
reimbursement for federally mandated medical screening, and
study and report on how provisions affect billing patterns of
hospitals and emergency physicians, requirements added .............. 503 2934
Gynecological care from an in-network obstetrician/gynecologist who
is not a patient's primary care physician, insurance provisions
amended ............................................................................................. 579 3298
580 3301
Health occupation boards, code of conduct for members and
designated investigators, development by State Ethics Commission,
requirements added ........................................................................... 460 2803
Impact on primary care providers and freestanding facilities of laws
and regulations authorizing or requiring enrollment of medicaid
recipients into managed care plans, study required ........................ 549 3113
Insurance fraud, expanded to include soliciting a person injured in an
auto accident to sue or hire a lawyer to sue or to seek care from a
health care practitioner; Insurance Fraud Unit required to notify
appropriate professional licensing boards of insurance fraud and
gross overutilization of health care services ..................................... 348 2262
Massage therapists, certification and regulation by Board of
Chiropractic Examiners, provisions added; Massage Therapy
Advisory Committee established ....................................................... 678 3833
Medical assistance managed care program, implementation and
structural framework, quality standards, inclusion of historic
providers, solvency, and mental health services, provisions added . 352 2426
Medical care provider reimbursements, appropriation for ................. 13 821
988
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Medical records, disclosure within county Health and Human
Services Department by health care providers, provisions added . 476 2837
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