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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 355
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CHAPTER 355
(House Bill 304)
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AN ACT concerning
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Health Insurance - Preauthorized Health Care Services - Denials of
Reimbursement by Carriers
FOR the purpose of prohibiting certain health insurance carriers from denying
reimbursement to a health care provider for preauthorized or approved services
delivered to a patient if a course of treatment health care service has been
preauthorized or approved for the patient; providing certain exceptions;
providing that a carrier must pay certain claims in accordance with certain
provisions of law; defining a certain term; making a stylistic change; providing
for the application of this Act; and generally relating to denials of
reimbursement by carriers for preauthorized or approved services delivered to a
patient.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Insurance
Section 15-1008
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 19-706(o)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY adding to
Article - Insurance
Section 15-1009
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
15-1008.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "Carrier" means;
(i) an insurer;
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