Health Care Foundation, Maryland, established to promote
expanded access to health care services for the uninsured ........

Health care practitioner payment system, implementation
delayed, and study and report requirements added ....................

Insurance Article -

New titles added to recodification ................................................

Supplemental provisions to code revision ....................................

Insurance fraud prevention fee, applicability and times and
method of payment, provisions altered ........................................

Medical savings accounts that qualify under the federal Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,
regulations establishing modified health benefit plan in the
small group market for, requirements added...............................

Mennonite church health insurance policies issued to members,
exemption from State insurance regulations, provisions added .

Notice of renewal of group policies, requirements added ...............

Osteoporosis, coverage for procedure to identify bone mass or
detect bone loss, requirements added ...........................................

Physician reimbursement methodology and distribution of
premium dollars, disclosure in enrollment sales materials,
requirements added .......................................................................

Portability and Accountability Act, reforms to guarantee issue and
renewability, set maximum rates, and prohibit preexisting
condition limitations to persons moving from the group to
individual market and to limit preexisting condition limitations
in the large group market, provisions added ...............................

Prescribed maintenance drug, supply quantity allowed by an
insurer in a single dispensing, provisions altered .......................

Prostate cancer diagnostic tests, coverage requirements added ....

Reimbursement of health care providers, minimum amount of
time to submit claim for reimbursement and maximum time for
reimbursement, provisions added .................................................

Retroactive denial of reimbursement to health care providers,
restrictions added ...........................................................................

Small Employer Group Market -
Definition of "self-employed individual" altered for purposes of
eligibility......................................................................................

Eligibility for participation after downsizing, provisions added .
Employers leasing employees from professional employer

organizations, eligibility, provisions added ...............................

Substantial, available, and affordable coverage in the nongroup
market, Health Care Access and Cost Commission required to

adopt regulations specifying a plan for ........................................

Health Maintenance Organizations —
SEE ALSO Managed Care Organizations
Blood products, mandated coverage, provisions added ...................

INDEX

Chapter

Page

180	1830
134	1728
35 57	745 1312
649	3648
698	4029
604 300	3326 2190
217	1952
145	1758
294	2138
232 356 357	2001 2481 2483
590	3255
163	1796
128 134 650 266	1711 1728 3654 2081
420	2670
245	2025
257	2056

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