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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requirements repealed ....................................................................... 645 3663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

Montgomery County -
Medical records, disclosure within county Health and Human
Services Department by health care providers, provisions added . 476 2837

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