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Ch. 253 2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 2000.
Approved May 11, 2000.
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CHAPTER 253
(Senate Bill 295)
AN ACT concerning
Health Insurance - Requirements for Providers to Serve on Provider Panels
FOR the purpose of prohibiting a carrier that offers coverage for health care services
through health benefit plans or contracts with providers to offer health care
services through provider panels from requiring a provider, as a condition of
participation or continuation on a provider panel, to serve on another provider
panel under certain circumstances; requiring a certain provider to give notice to
a certain carrier of the provider's intention to terminate participation on a
provider panel; requiring a certain provider to continue to provide health care
services to certain individuals for a certain period of time; authorizing a certain
carrier to require a provider to serve on a provider panel of a managed care
organization under certain circumstances; defining certain terms; and generally
relating to requirements for providers to serve on provider panels.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-112(a)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Insurance
Section 15-112(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Insurance
15-112.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) (i) "Carrier" means:
1. an insurer;
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