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Health Care Commission, Maryland, authority to develop
payment system for all State health care practitioners, repealed;
information on charges by practitioners and reimbursements
Health maintenance organization administrative service provider
contracts, responsibility for claims or payments for health care
services and establishment of segregated fund, provisions added
and altered; contracting providers, registration and reports
Insurer denial of reimbursement to health care provider for
preauthorized or approved services to patient, prohibitions
added ...............................................................................................
Lead poisoning blood tests for children in high risk areas, health
care providers required to administer, and parents of children
entering school required to provide proof of testing; reporting of
blood test results and immunization registries, provisions added
Licensing examination requirements, provisions altered ...............
Nursing homes, quality assurance program implementation,
establishment of Quality Assurance Committee, designation of
medical director, notice of ratio of personnel to residents, and
closure procedure required in each nursing home, provisions
Patient care advisory committee, consultation with medical
professional familiar with pediatric end-of—life care,
Patient referrals to health care entities in which the practitioner
owns a beneficial interest or with which the practitioner has a
compensation arrangement, prohibition and exemptions altered
Physician Quality Assurance, Board of-
Investigation of alleged violations, written and signed complaint
Postgraduate medical training requirements for licensure,
Private review agents, administrative and enforcement oversight
and utilization review requirements, provisions altered ............
Provider panel member information, provision to prospective, new,
Rate of reimbursement by health maintenance organization to
non-contracting health care provider, provisions altered; report
Standing referral to obstetrician for pregnancy, requirements
Piers and Docks —
Docking masters, licensing, regulation, and services, provisions
added; Board of Docking Masters and Joint Committee on the
Port of Baltimore, established .......................................................
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64
323
355
677
109
217
218
51
229
204
457
140
123
279
275
359
509
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585
1920
2039
3476
723
1434
1445
426
1488
1050
1204
2485
815
744
1649
1632
2054
2715
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