File Code: Health Maintenance Organizations
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 486
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Nathan-Pulliam, Cane, D. Davis, Frush, Morhaim, and
Stern
- Entitled:
-
Medical Assistance - Program Recipients -
Primary Care Providers
Requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish
mechanisms for identifying a Maryland Medical Assistance Program
recipient's primary care provider at the time of enrollment and for
assigning the Program recipient to a managed care organization under
specified circumstances; requiring a managed care organization or
contracted medical group of the organization to assign a recipient to
a specified provider under specified circumstances; allowing a
recipient to disenroll from a managed care organization; etc.
House Action
- 2/12
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/24
- Hearing 3/8 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 4/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed (134-1)
Senate Action
- 4/9
- First Reading Senate Rules
- 4/12
- Re-referred Finance
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Dereck Davis, District 25
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Joan F. Stern, District 39
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT. ORGS
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
15-102.5 ,
15-103 ,
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 799593/2 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1999 at:
10:43 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
- House
- April 7, 1999: Third Reading Passed (134-1)