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State health plan, Medicaid, and welfare fraud, provisions revised
Treatment of patient in accordance with emergency medical
services "do not resuscitate order", and study and report
concerning "do not resuscitate order" and "physician order for
life sustaining treatment", provisions added ...............................
Uniform claims forms for health care benefits, attachments, clean
claims, documentation of claims filing procedures, and prompt
claim payment, provisions altered; State Uniform Billing
Committee, creation to advise in development of claims
Health Planning and Cost Review —
Continuing Care Communities -
Direct admission of new residents into comprehensive care
nursing facility, certificate of need exemption restrictions
altered ..........................................................................................
Maximum number of comprehensive care nursing beds allowed
in order to qualify for certificate of need exemption, provisions
Health Care Commission -
Appropriation to.............................................................................
Authority to develop payment system for all State health care
practitioners, repealed; information on charges by
practitioners and reimbursements from payors, requirements
added ...........................................................................................
Fees assessed on hospitals, nursing homes, payors, and health
care practitioners and Health Services Cost Review
Commission user fees assessed on hospitals, restrictions on
* use, provisions clarified..............................................................
Health care policy, financing and regulation, appropriation for ....
Health Services Cost Review Commission, appropriation to .........
Hospital Bond Program, Maryland, changes ensuring access to
affordable capital for hospitals while providing for elimination of
Non-Group Health Insurance Market, Task Force to Study the,
provisions repealed.........................................................................
Pharmacy Assistance Program ineligible applicants, program to
provide information about other pharmacy assistance programs,
including free programs by drug manufacturers, and study and
report on possibility of buy-in prescription assistance program
Prescription drug subsidy plan for Medicare Plus Choice eligible
persons living in medically underserved counties, funded by
insurers that receive a hospital rate differential for participation
in Substantial, Affordable, and Available Coverage Program,
provisions added .............................................................................
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375
204
204
71
320
544
565
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835
2242
1506
1630
1072
1207
585
2120
1066
1206
1072
1190
612
1909
2874
2993
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