1997 Regular Session
PHYSICIANS
Status of Legislation
Total number of Bills: 68
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bonsack
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disciplinary Actions - Expungement of Records
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Conroy and Menes
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Life Insurers - Disclosure of Medical Information
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates C. Davis, Harrison, and Branch
- Entitled
- Health - Information Privacy - Disclosure of Medical Records
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Health Care Practitioners - Reports of Blood Alcohol Concentration - Vehicle Operators
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
HB 254
Status as of April 3, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Hospitals - HIV Testing - Health Care Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim, Nathan-Pulliam, and Klausmeier
- Entitled
- Utilization Review - Adverse Decisions
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Love, Kach, V. Mitchell, Kelly, Eckardt, Boston, Barve, Exum, Kirk, Walkup, La Vay, Frank, Pendergrass, Fulton, Morhaim, and Workman
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Providers - Retroactive Denials of Reimbursements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Goldwater and Barve
- Entitled
- Benefits for Routine Gynecological Care - Coverage Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Donoghue
- Entitled
- Health Benefits Coverage - Inpatient Hospitalization for Mastectomy
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement - Emergency Follow-Up Care
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement - X Rays
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Environmental Matters Committee (Departmental - Md. Inst. for Emer. Medical Serv. Sys.)
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services - Licensure of Providers - Transfer of Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Vallario, Grosfeld, Dembrow, and Genn
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Greenip
- Entitled
- Minors - Treatment - Repeal of Immunity from Liability
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Frank, Barve, and Goldwater
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Service Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Morhaim and Guns
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Patient Referrals
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Exum
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Construction Carve Out
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Wood, La Vay, and McClenahan
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Medical Services and Treatment - Selection of Physician from Panel
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Harkins, D. Murphy, Bonsack, Bissett, and Owings
- Entitled
- Health Care Malpractice Claims - Attorneys' Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Judiciary
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Love, Klausmeier, Goldwater, Barve, Morhaim, Walkup, Frank, Harrison, Stup, Finifter, Kagan, Busch, Gordon, Donoghue, Kach, V. Mitchell, McClenahan, Kelly, Eckardt, Boston, Krysiak, Exum, Kirk, Crumlin, Pendergrass, and Fulton
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Referrals to Continuing Care Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Donoghue, Love, Snodgrass, Klausmeier, Hammen, Morhaim, Boston, Kirk, Faulkner, Bonsack, McHale, Stull, V. Mitchell, Edwards, Frank, Weir, Barve, Shriver, Mossburg, Exum, Krysiak, Poole, Hecht, Elliott, Workman, Pendergrass, Fulton, Gordon, Eckardt, McClenahan, Harrison, McKee, Stup, Walkup, Fry, and Mohorovic
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Health Care Benefits - Adverse Decisions - Grievances and Complaints
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve , Goldwater, Donoghue, Boston, Exum, Kirk, Crumlin, Frank, and Fulton
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Compensation of Health Care Practitioners - Capitated Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve and Goldwater
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Carriers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Information Disclosure
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Barve , Gordon, Donoghue, Eckardt, Goldwater, and Frank
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Point-of-Service Option - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Weir, Guns, and Billings
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Access to Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack, W. Baker, Barve, Bozman, Branch, Brinkley, Conroy, Conway, Cryor, Crumlin, C. Davis, DeCarlo, Dewberry, Donoghue, Dypski, Exum, Elliott, Faulkner, Finifter, Frank, Fry, Fulton, Getty, Goldwater, Guns, Hammen, Harkins, Harrison, Heller, Holt, Howard, D. Hughes, Hutchins, Hurson, Kagan, Kelly, Klausmeier, Klima, Kirk, Kopp, Krysiak, Leopold, Linton, Love, Malone, McClenahan, McIntosh, McKee, C. Mitchell, Mohorovic, Morhaim, D. Murphy, Oaks, Muse, Perry, Pitkin, Preis, Rudolph, Stocksdale, Stull, Weir, Willis, Wood, Workman, Turner, Boston, Poole, Owings, Curran, Proctor, and Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Quality of Care - Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate O'Donnell
- Entitled
- Minors - Treatment - Capacity to Consent
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Bonsack, Jacobs, Klima, Linton, and Workman
- Entitled
- Physician Assistants - Termination of Employment - Reporting Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate McHale
- Entitled
- Uniform Laboratory Referral Form - Repeal
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Barve
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontract of Providers' Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Harrison
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Claims by Nonparticipating Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Heller
- Entitled
- Public Dissemination of Physician Profiles
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Delegates Hammen, Redmer, Klausmeier, and Morhaim
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Physician Assistants - Medication Orders
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Delegate Bonsack
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Discipline of Physicians - System of Delivery of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
House: Environmental Matters
SB 93
Status as of February 17, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Withdrawn Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Practice of Medicine - "Telemedicine"
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health Care Consumer Information and Education Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Plans - Denial of Services - Second Opinions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Treatment Guidelines and Protocols - Length of Inpatient Hospitalization Coverage
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Reimbursement - X Rays
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations - Inpatient Hospitalization Coverage - Treatments for Breast or Testicular Cancer
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Bromwell, Dorman, Hafer, Roesser, Trotter, Derr, Astle, Teitelbaum, Hoffman, Hollinger, and Forehand
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Referrals to Continuing Care Facilities
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Chairman, Economic and Environmental Affairs Committee (Departmental - Health and Mental Hygiene)
- Entitled
- AIDS - Pregnant Women - Counseling and Testing
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Dorman
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Benefits for Mental Illness - Referral for Consultation or Specialty Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hafer
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Point-of-Service Option - Definition
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Patient Referrals
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Reimbursement of Service Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Della
- Entitled
- Workers' Compensation - Construction Carve Out
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Dorman and Hafer
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Access to Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Disclosure of Medical Records - Mental Health Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- State Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Discipline of Physicians - System of Delivery of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Fees
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Physicians - Intractable Pain - Prescribing or Administering Controlled Dangerous Substances
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Hollinger
- Entitled
- Board of Physician Quality Assurance - Disciplinary Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Frosh
- Entitled
- Disclosure of Medical Records - Compulsory Process - Notice to Person in Interest
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Derr
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Claims by Nonparticipating Providers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Teitelbaum, Della, Astle, and Stoltzfus
- Entitled
- Health Insurance Carriers - Assignment, Transfer, or Subcontract of Providers' Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
SB 648
Status as of March 26, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Bromwell, Jimeno, Della, and Young
- Entitled
- Health Occupations - Penalties
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Pinsky
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Quality of Care - Requirements
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
- Sponsored By
- Senators Van Hollen, Teitelbaum, Dorman, and Pinsky
- Entitled
- Patient Protection Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Ruben
- Entitled
- Health Insurers and Life Insurers - Disclosure of Medical Information
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Astle, Della, Derr, Teitelbaum, Ruben, Trotter, Hollinger, Hughes, Dorman, and Hafer
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Complaint Process for Adverse Decisions or Grievances
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Astle
- Entitled
- Health Maintenance Organizations - Payment of Nonparticipating Health Care Providers - Medicare Contracts
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senators Middleton and Amoss
- Entitled
- Emergency Medical Services - Licensure of Providers - Transfer of Authority
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Roesser
- Entitled
- Health Insurance - Task Force to Review Requirements for Providers to Serve on Panels
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Economic Matters
SB 775
Status as of March 31, 1997: Bill is in the Senate - Unfavorable Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senator Roesser
- Entitled
- Optometrists and Physicians - Contact Lens Prescriptions
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Economic and Environmental Affairs
- Sponsored By
- Senators Young, Dorman, and Bromwell
- Entitled
- Health Benefit Plans - Quality of Health Care Services
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Senate Rules
- Sponsored By
- Senators Miller, Bromwell, Young, Hollinger, Astle, Dorman, Teitelbaum, Hafer, Della, Trotter, Derr, Roesser, and Madden
- Entitled
- Consumer Health Information Act
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
House: Environmental Matters
- Sponsored By
- Senator Teitelbaum
- Entitled
- Health Insurers - Retroactive Reimbursement Denials - Insureds, Members, and Subscribers
- Committee
Assignments -
Senate: Finance
