CHAPTER NUMBER: 546
File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 636
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Oaks, Redmer,
D. Davis, Mohorovic, Billings, Hammen, Elliott, Stull, Klausmeier,
Boutin, Frush, Morhaim, Baldwin, Owings, Weir, Hubbard, Sher, Cane, and
Nathan-Pulliam
- Entitled:
-
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations - Continuity of Care
Providing that a HealthChoice Program recipient has the right to
choose the managed care organization with which the recipient is
enrolled and the primary care provider to whom the recipient is
assigned within the managed care organization; requiring the
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reassign a disenrolled
recipient to the managed care organization in which the recipient
previously was enrolled; etc.
House Action
- 2/9
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/14
- Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/25
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 4/5
- Returned Passed
- 5/15
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 546
Senate Action
- 3/30
- First Reading Senate Rules
- 4/5
- Re-referred Finance
- 4/9
- Favorable Report by Finance
- 4/5
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 4/6
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Nathaniel T. Oaks, District 41
- Delegate Robert C. Baldwin, District 33
- Delegate Leon G. Billings, District 18
- Delegate Charles R. Boutin, District 34
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Dereck E. Davis, District 25
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Peter A. Hammen, District 46
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23
- Delegate Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
- Delegate Jacob J. Mohorovic, Jr., District 7
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Alfred W. Redmer, Jr., District 8
- Delegate Tod David Sher, District 14A
- Delegate Paul S. Stull, District 4A
- Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
- DISCLOSURE
- ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS -see also specific health occupations-
- MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS -see also- HEALTH MAINT ORGS
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- NOTICES
- PATIENTS
- PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
- RECORDS -see also- LAND RECORDS; VITAL RECORDS
- REPORTS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- House
- Number: 710212/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 28, 2001 at:
10:29 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House
- March 25, 2001: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- Senate
- April 6, 2001: Third Reading Passed (46-0)