1996 Regular Session
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 59
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Coverage for Hospital Stays for Postpartum Mothers and Infants
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Benson, Cryor, Doory, Eckardt, Grosfeld, Harrison, Kopp, Love, McIntosh, Menes, Parker, Pitkin, Snodgrass, Workman, Walkup, Pendergrass, Stup, Hecht, Nathan-Pulliam, Kagan, Petzold, Frush, Kirk, Donoghue, and Barve
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Hospitalization Benefits for Childbirth - Payment for Extended Stay
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Bonsack
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Identification of Physicians as Specialists
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Bonsack
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Referral of Disciplinary Actions - Peer Review
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Schisler, Eckardt, and Workman
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Membership - Doctors of Osteopathy
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Doory, Krysiak, Goldwater, Eckardt, Kirk, Harrison, Frank, Walkup, Barve, and Exum
- Entitled
- Health Insurers - Negotiated Alternative Rates - Amount of Insured Coinsurance Payment
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic Matters Committee (Departmental - Labor, Licensing and Regulation)
- Entitled
- State Board of Pilots - Licensing, Disability, Retirement, and Compensation of Pilots
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack and Fry
- Entitled
- Medical Education Program Fund - Primary Care Practitioners
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Elliott
- Entitled
- Immunity - Physicians Not Receiving Remuneration
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Dembrow, Genn, D. Hughes, Redmer, Kagan, and Montague
- Entitled
- Terminal Illness - Physician Aid in Dying
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve and Goldwater
- Entitled
- Health Insurers - Appeal of Reimbursement Decisions - Nontermination Provision
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Maryland Cancer Registry
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Hammen
- Entitled
- Health Care Facilities - Certificate of Need
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack and Guns
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Direct Payment to Provider of Service
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Harkins, Jacobs, Bonsack, Holt, Klima, Owings, and Walkup
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice Claims - Attorneys' Fees
- Committee
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House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Busch
- Entitled
- Insurance - Workers' Compensation - Rate Credits
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Elliott and Hecht
- Entitled
- Health Care Providers - Reasonable Reimbursement for Health Care Services
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Love, Krysiak, Doory, Barve, Kirk, Harrison, Donoghue, Kach, V. Mitchell, Eckardt, Goldwater, Boston, Walkup, Frank, Pitkin, Crumlin, Kelly, Pendergrass, Exum, Nathan-Pulliam, and Conroy
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement to Providers of Emergency Services
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater, Eckardt, Donoghue, Love, Boston, Walkup, Kirk, Frank, Harrison, Krysiak, Exum, V. Mitchell, Barve, Boston, Busch, Crumlin, and Pendergrass
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Gynecological Care
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Stup
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Medical or Surgical Procedures - Out-of-Network Referrals
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack, Donoghue, and Beck
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Plans - Prohibitions
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates McHale, Cadden, Frush, Hammen, Klausmeier, T. Murphy, Nathan-Pulliam, and Stup
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Licensure of Respiratory Care Practitioners
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Md. Inst. of Emer. Medical Serv. Sys.)
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services - Licensure of Providers - Transfer of Authority
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Economic Matters Committee
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Nonprofit Health Service Plans - Provider Reimbursements
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack and Barve
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disciplinary Actions
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Bonsack, Nathan-Pulliam, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Utilization Review - Adverse Decisions
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Love
- Entitled
- Exercise Physiologists - Certification
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, McHale, Guns, Fulton, Redmer, Oaks, Elliott, D. Davis, Ciliberti, Stull, and Frush
- Entitled
- Primary Source Verification Information and Procedures for Physicians and External Review of Quality for Health Maintenance Organizations
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Doory, Goldwater, Krysiak, Workman, McKee, Poole, Hecht, Snodgrass, Stup, Brinkley, Stull, Getty, Stocksdale, DeCarlo, Minnick, Mohorovic, Klausmeier, E. Burns, Edwards, Nathan-Pulliam, Finifter, Frank, Bobo, Pendergrass, Turner, Faulkner, Cryor, Shriver, Kopp, Kagan, Grosfeld, Hurson, Heller, Petzold, Hixson, Frush, Menes, Rosapepe, Healey, Palumbo, Conroy, Hubbard, Pitkin, Benson, Exum, Slade, Howard, Muse, Valderrama, Proctor, Vallario, Hutchins, Cadden, Love, Rzepkowski, Perry, Bonsack, Jacobs, Preis, Fry, Rudolph, W. Baker, Walkup, Eckardt, Bozman, Conway, Ciliberti, Marriott, Boston, Oaks, Rosenberg, Curran, Montague, Kirk, C. Mitchell, Branch, Harrison, Dypski, Hammen, Opara, Kach, Elliott, Flanagan, Crumlin, Busch, Gordon, V. Mitchell, Kelly, Barve, and Cummings
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Mothers and Newborns - Minimum Length of Stay and Utilization Review
- Committee
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House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Conroy
- Entitled
- Medical Radiation and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Specialists
- Committee
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House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Middleton
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - License to Practice Medicine - Waiver of Examination
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 131
Status as of March 4, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Hoffman, Kelley, Teitelbaum, Sfikas, and Pinsky
- Entitled
- AIDS - Pregnant Women - Counseling and Testing
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Stone
- Entitled
- Mental Health Records - Disclosure to Primary Caregivers
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Identification of Physicians as Specialists
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 237
Status as of February 6, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Referral of Disciplinary Actions - Peer Review
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Young
- Entitled
- Health Care Consumer Information and Education Act
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Young
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Medical Treatment Benefits, Risks, and Costs - Information to Members
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Forehand, Hollinger, Ruben, Lawlah, Roesser, Kelley, Dyson, Hughes, Hoffman, Frosh, Van Hollen, and Collins
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Hospitalization Benefits for Childbirth - Payment for Extended Stay
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Trotter, Young, Hafer, Pica, Dorman, Bromwell, Lawlah, Hoffman, Hughes, Stone, Astle, Della, Derr, Madden, and Roesser
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Gynecological Care
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Pica and Stone
- Entitled
- Child Abuse and Neglect - Failure to Report - Penalties
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Senator Colburn
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice Claims - Attorneys' Fees
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman and Trotter
- Entitled
- Physicians - Requirements - Educational Materials for Prostate Cancer
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Nurse Psychotherapists - Authority to Prescribe and Dispense Drugs
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Hollinger, Della, Boozer, Kasemeyer, Stoltzfus, and Sfikas
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Licensure of Respiratory Care Practitioners
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
SB 627
Status as of March 14, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Boozer
- Entitled
- Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland - Physician Rehabilitation Program and Peer Review Activities - Audit
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
SB 659
Status as of March 14, 1996: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Madden
- Entitled
- Copies of Medical Records - Dissolution of Physician Groups - Charges
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Discipline of Physician Medical Directors
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Haines, Colburn, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Women's Right to Know Act
- Committee
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Senate: Judicial Proceedings
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Finance Committee
- Entitled
- Nonprofit Health Service Plans - Amendment of Provider Contracts
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Trotter , Young, and Lawlah
- Entitled
- Health Insurers - Provider Panels - Participation of Community Health Care Providers
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Trotter, Young, and Pinsky
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Obstetricians and Gynecologists - Primary Care Physicians
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pinsky
- Entitled
- Mammography Testing
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Young and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health - Benefit and Evaluation Requirements
- Committee
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Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Senator Young
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Financial Incentives or Penalties - Disclosure
- Committee
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Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Senators Della and Astle
- Entitled
- Credentialing Information and Procedures for Physicians and External Review of Quality for Health Maintenance Organizations
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disciplinary Actions
- Committee
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Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Finance Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- Maryland Medical Assistance Program - Managed Care Organizations
- Committee
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Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Lawlah, Young, and Dorman
- Entitled
- Task Force to Study the Underrepresentation of Minority Physicians in Health Maintenance Organizations
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
