Ch. 163

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 163
(Senate Bill 335)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Health Care Practitioners Providers - Retroactive Denials of

Reimbursement

FOR the purpose of restricting the time period during which certain health insurance
carriers may retroactively deny reimbursement to health care practitioners
providers under certain circumstances; requiring certain health insurance carriers to
provide a certain statement; prohibiting certain health insurance carriers from
retroactively denying reimbursement or attempting to retroactively collect
reimbursement already paid to health care practitioners providers under certain
circumstances; allowing a provider a certain time period in which to submit a claim
for reimbursement under certain circumstances; defining certain terms; requiring a
certain study; and generally relating to retroactive denials of reimbursement to
health care practitioners providers.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Insurance
Section 15-113

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter (H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997)

BY adding to

Article - Insurance

Section 15-1008

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Volume and 1996 Supplement)

(As enacted by Chapter_ (H.B. 11) of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1997)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 19-706(n)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article — Insurance

15-113.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated:

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