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Ch. 565 2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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plan to exclude coverage for certain prescription drugs; requiring that
enrollment be reserved for a certain period for a certain population of eligible
individuals; requiring that the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene adopt
certain regulations and issue a report .jointly with the Maryland Insurance
Administration and the Health Services Cost Review Commission; prohibiting
the Health Services Cost Review Commission from taking steps to eliminate or
adjust the differential for substantial, affordable, and available coverage for a
certain period; authorizing the Secretary to suspend the plan and certain
provisions of this Act on certain notification by the Health Care Financing
Administration; providing for the termination of this Act; defining certain
terms; and generally relating to a short-term prescription drug plan for certain
individuals in medically underserved counties or portions of counties and to the
differential awarded carriers for providing substantial, affordable, and available
coverage.
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 15-601 through 15-605, inclusive, to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle
6.—Maryland Medicare Plus Choice Insurance Subsidy Program" 6.
Short-Term Prescription Drug Subsidy Plan"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.
Article - Insurance
Section 6-101 and 15-606
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1997 Volume and 1999 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, Residents in fourteen Maryland counties lack access to a
Medicare plus Choice managed care plan; and
WHEREAS, Fifteen percent of seniors in Maryland do not have access to a
Medicare plus Choice managed care plan that provides prescription drug benefits;
and
WHEREAS,—Seniors who cannot afford the higher premiums for a Medicare
plus Choice managed care plan should not be deprived of access to the kind of care
they need; and
WHEREAS, Maryland is among the states with the highest percentage of
Medicare enrollees who lack a Medicare plus Choice managed care plan that provides
prescription drug benefits; and
WHEREAS,—Medicare plus Choice managed care can provide Maryland's
senior citizens with benefits they do not get under the Federal Medicare program; and
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