Health care services disparities based on minority and economic
status, reduction plan and reports required; higher education
curricula and continuing education requirements and programs
that address the disparity problem, provisions added ................

Health maintenance organization definition of "covered service"
revised to include referral or preauthorization requirements,
with an exception for trauma care rendered in a trauma center;
collection from enrollee by health care provider, provisions
altered .............................................................................................

Health Services Cost Review Commission, promotion of the racial,
gender, and geographic diversity of the commission when
vacancies filled, requirements added ...........................................

Hepatitis C, State Advisory Council on, established; reports
required ...........................................................................................

HIV testing of patient who is unavailable or unable to consent to
testing if exposure between patient and health care provider or
first responder occurred, and report on testing of patients who
refuse to consent, requirements added .........................................

Home- and community-based services waiver application for
person receiving nursing home services under the medical
assistance program, denial of waiver due to lack of funding,
prohibitions added; reports on promotion and use of waiver,
required ...........................................................................................

Hospices, jurisdictions in which a general hospice may provide
home-based hospice services, restrictions added; annual survey
of hospice programs, study and report of status of hospice
services, and update of State health plan's hospice chapter,
requirements added .......................................................................

Informal kinship care providers, consent to health care and
application for all medical and public assistance entitlements for
which child is eligible on behalf of child, provisions added ........

Injuries sustained as a result of professional services provided by
health care provider, civil action to recover damages prohibited
under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act ............................

Intrastate motor carrier transportation regulations, application of
federal medical examination and certification requirements,
prohibition repealed; application of federal physical
qualification regulations, prohibition altered ..............................

Lead poisoning testing of children, certified documentation, report
of lack of documentation, and time frame for administration by
child care providers, requirements added ....................................

Lead risk reduction in housing, report by local government agency
of noncompliance, requirements added ........................................

Local Public Health Cancer Grant -
Calculation provisions altered .......................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

453	3074
440	3002
349	2462
149	1384
143	1366
303	2291
404	2874
206	1911
371	2616
268	2206
178	1473
446	3029
203	1788