SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1999.

Approved May 27, 1999.

CHAPTER 617
(House Bill 280)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Reimbursements to Health Care Practitioners - Costs of

Oncology Drugs

FOR the purpose of including the cost of certain supplies and services used by health
care practitioners in treating patients under certain circumstances in the cost of
oncology drugs that must be reimbursed by carriers; prohibiting certain health
insurance carriers from reimbursing a health-care practitioner in an amount
that is less than the cost of certain supplies and administrative services;
providing for a certain exception; prohibiting carriers from requiring health-care
practitioners to obtain oncology drugs from a particular course; repealing a
provision that authorizes carriers to reimburse a health care practitioner in an
amount less than the practitioner's cost under certain circumstances; and
generally repealing certain provisions of law relating to reimbursement of
health care practitioners for the costs of oncology drugs under health insurance.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-113
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1998 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-706(i)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1996 Replacement Volume and 1998 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.
(2) "Carrier" means: