Ch. 323                                    2003 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 323
(House Bill 729)

AN ACT concerning

Health Insurance - Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations Services
- Expense and Loss Ratios and Reports

FOR the purpose of requiring certain carriers to include certain information on
behavioral health care providers in a certain list of providers on the carrier's
provider panel; requiring a carrier that contracts with a managed behavioral
health care organization to require the managed behavioral health care
organization to provide a certain report that the carrier is required to make
publicly available; repealing a requirement that certain carriers file certain
information with the' Maryland Insurance Commissioner; requiring certain
carriers to complete and maintain copies of certain forms required developed by
the Commissioner that include certain information; requiring the Commission
to develop a certain form; requiring certain carriers to make certain forms
available to certain individuals upon request; authorizing a carrier that makes
certain forms available to certain individuals to make certain charges;
authorizing the Commissioner to adopt certain regulations; altering a certain
scope provision; defining a certain term; altering and repealing certain
definitions; making a certain conforming change to a certain definition; and
generally relating to certain carriers and managed behavioral health care
organizations.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Insurance
Section 15-127
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2002 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Insurance

15-127.

(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) (I) "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES"
MEANS ANY EXPENSES THAT ARE NOT INCURRED FOR DIRECT CARE EXPENSES
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING EXPENSES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS
INCLUDING:

(I) 1. BILLING AND COLLECTION EXPENSES;

(II) 2. ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL REPORTING EXPENSES;

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