Maryland Health Insurance Program, qualifications for
enrollment expanded, composition of board altered, and request
for federal approval as "alternative mechanism" under HIPAA
required; offer of medigap policies to certain persons whose
employee welfare benefit plan is terminated, required ..............

Municipal corporation annexation resolutions, notice and hearing
requirements altered ......................................................................

Nonnative aquatic organisms, abatement and summary
abatement of nuisance caused by, provisions added; regulations
to prohibit importation, possession,- or introduction of,
authorized .......................................................................................

Nonprofit health service plans, mission plan, board of directors
composition, salaries, and duties, and other criteria required to
maintain favorable tax treatment, provisions altered and added;
Joint Nonprofit Health Service Plan Oversight Committee
established; reports required ..........................................................

Nursing homes that receive payments from the Medical
Assistance Program, third party liability reviews and audits,
and credit balance reports, requirements added; measures to
resolve issues relating to delays in the Medicaid eligibility
process for nursing home residents, report required ..................

Office-based, medication—assisted opioid addiction therapy,
establishment or designation by Board of Physician Quality
Assurance of a program to train physicians who wish to attain a
federal waiver to practice, requirements added ..........................

Open-pit strip mining permit, deadlines for application review
and action, provisions added .........................................................

Party decision to permit unaffiliated voters to vote in party's
primary election, notice requirements added ...............................

Pharmacy access hotline for medical assistance recipients,
establishment required; notice, tracking, and report
requirements added .......................................................................

Physician Quality Assurance, State Board of, renamed to be State
Board of Physicians; termination date extended; evaluation
deadline added; membership, appointment, vacancy, fees, Board
of Physicians Fund, and physician rehabilitation, peer review,
and discipline, provisions altered .................................................

Podiatrists, license application, examination waiver, signature
requirement, grace period, reinstatement to person on inactive
status, change of address notification, discipline, limited and
temporary licenses, penalties, and State board member
qualifications, provisions added and altered ...............................

Potomac River Fisheries Commission, authority to regulate
dredging of oysters and levy fees, provisions altered ..................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

2	7
383	2765
373	2621
356	2474
357	2527
394	2819
220	1953
337	2438
22	1026
260	2166
252	2105
134	1325
290	2258