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2007 Laws of Maryland
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Chapter Page
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maintenance organizations by the Insurance Commissioner, and
privacy of documents, materials, or information relating to such
activities, provisions added.............................................................
Benefits for a domestic partner and child dependent of a domestic
partner of an insured person and for any child dependent who is
under the age of 25, provisions added; health care coverage of
young adults, study and report required..........................................
Collection and use of racial and ethnic data, provisions added............
Copayment or coinsurance requirement for covered prescription
drug or device, prohibited from exceeding the retail price of the
drug or device..................................................................................
Credentialing intermediaries, use of uniform credentialing form, and
' notice to applicants for participation on provider panel,
provisions altered............................................................................
Discount medical plan and discount drug plan organizations,
registration and regulation, provisions added.................................
Freestanding medical facility pilot project operating in Queen
Anne's County that is established by and administratively part of
a hospital in Talbot County, provisions added................................
Health Care Access and Reimbursement, Task Force on, established;
report required.................................................................................
Health care providers that provide services through a participant on a
carrier's provider panel, circumstances under which not
considered to be a participating provider and not required to
accept participating provider rates, provisions added.....................
Incentives to participate in wellness program of health insurance
carrier, authority of carrier to provide, provisions added................
Policies that pay for services rendered only by preferred providers,
limited benefit plans to certain employees that do not qualify for
group coverage, and administrative discounts to certain small
employers, authorization to offer, provisions added.......................
Provision of information about individuals eligible for or enrolled in
Medicaid to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and
acceptance of Medicaid's right of recovery and assignment to
Medicaid, requirements added; negative action on a policy based
on Medicaid eligibility, prohibited..................................................
Rate discount to small employer for participation in a wellness
program, limits on rate adjustments to the community rate, and
reports on participation in small group market health benefit
plans, provisions added...................................................................
Request for referral to a nonphysician specialist who is not part of
carrier's provider panel, establishment of procedure by health
insurance carriers, requirements added...........................................
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110
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1011
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639
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4030
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25
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774
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26
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780
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638
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4028
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612
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3893
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629
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3982
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574
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3747
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505
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3334
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168
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1332
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169
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1335
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591
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3795
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243
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1663
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646
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4056
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600
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3839
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141
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1211
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