File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 643  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Hurson, Harrison, Branch, Valderrama, Nathan-Pulliam,
Krysiak, Rosenberg, Conroy, Hammen, Morhaim, C. Davis, and Rosapepe
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Medical Assistance Program - Managed Care Program - Special Needs
Children
 
Prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene from including
special needs children in the Medicaid managed care program before
January 1, 1998; requiring the Secretary to authorize managed care
organizations that have demonstrated experience in serving the special
needs population to provide all the benefits required only for special
needs children; and requiring the Secretary to set capitation rates
for specified managed care organizations in a specified manner.
House Action
- 1/31
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 - 2/19
 - Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/24
 - Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters
 
Senate Action
- No Action
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate John Adams Hurson, District 18
 - Delegate Talmadge Branch, District 45
 - Delegate Mary A. Conroy, District 23
 - Delegate Clarence Davis, District 45
 - Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
 - Delegate Hattie N. Harrison, District 45
 - Delegate Carolyn J. Krysiak, District 46
 - Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
 - Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
 - Delegate James C. Rosapepe, District 21
 - Delegate Samuel I. Rosenberg, District 42
 - Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - HEALTH -see also- MENTAL HEALTH
 - HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT. ORGS
 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
 - MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
 - PRICES
 - YOUTH -see also- MINORS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 15-103 ,
 15-103 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF)