File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1227
- Sponsored By:
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Senators Kelley, Conway, Currie, Hafer, Hooper, Hughes,
Kasemeyer, Madden, Mitchell, Pinsky, and Sfikas
- Entitled:
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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; requiring that the Department make a report
associated with transitioning enrollees; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Finance
- 2/6
- Hearing 3/8 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/26
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- 4/2
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/17
- Governor vetoed - Cross-filed bill was signed
House Action
- 3/24
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/28
- Hearing 3/30 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/30
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/31
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (138-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator Ulysses Currie, District 25
- Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Ralph M. Hughes, District 40
- Senator Edward J. Kasemeyer, District 12
- Senator Martin G. Madden, District 13
- Senator Clarence M. Mitchell, IV, District 44
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- 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
- REPORTS
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 617474/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 23, 2001 at:
11:30 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 660019/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 4, 2001 at:
11:25 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 26, 2001: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- April 2, 2001: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- House
- March 31, 2001: Third Reading Passed (138-0)