Referral of patients to a health care entity in which practitioner's
immediate family owns an interest, provisions altered ..............

Rehabilitation practitioners, registration 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 by health benefit plan providers, restrictions
added ...........................................................................................

Uniform laboratory referral form, requirements repealed .............

Workers' compensation claims in construction trade industry,
agreement through collective bargaining to alternative dispute
resolution system, use of agreed list of health care providers for
medical treatment and examinations, return to work program,

and vocational rehabilitation or retraining program ..................

Health Planning and Cost Review —

Health Care Access and Cost Commission -

Appropriation to .............................................................................

Evaluation of Commission and regulations, requirements added

Health care policy, financing and regulation, appropriation for ....

Health care practitioner payment system, implementation

delayed, and study and report requirements added ....................

Health regulatory commissions, appropriation to ...........................

Health Resources Planning Commission, appropriation to ............

Health Services Cost Review Commission -

Appropriation to .............................................................................

Fund, termination date extended .................................................

Medical screening services, reimbursement of hospital
emergency facilities and providers by health maintenance

organizations, report requirements added ................................

Home and Community-Based Services Waiver, pilot project for
expanding participation, provisions added ...................................

Medical Care Finance and Compliance Administration,
appropriation to ..............................................................................

Medical Care Policy Administration, appropriation to ...................

Medical review committee proceedings, records, and files,
discovery and admissibility in evidence in civil actions,
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...............................

Substantial, available, and affordable health care coverage in the
nongroup market, Health Care Access and Cost Commission
required to adopt regulations specifying a plan for ....................

INDEX

Chapter

Page

253 625	2040 3494
590	3255
163 281	1796 2111
591	3258
3 236 3	161 2011 155 261
134 3 3	1728 161 247 262 161
3 238	161 2013
107	1583
3	155
	160 160
696	4024
698	4029
245	2025

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