File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 540  
- Sponsored By: 
- 
Delegates Tarrant, Cullison, Hubbard, Krebs, Morhaim, Murphy,
Nathan-Pulliam, and Reznik
- Entitled: 
- 
Maryland Health Care Commission - Preauthorization of Health Care Services -
Benchmarks
Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to work with payors and
providers to attain benchmarks for standardizing and automating the
process required by payors for preauthorizing health care services;
requiring the benchmarks to include, on or before specified dates,
establishment or utilization of specified features; providing that the
benchmarks do not apply to specified preauthorizations; requiring the
Commission to establish by regulation a process through which a payor
or provider may be waived from attaining benchmarks; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
For explanation of terms 
click here.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
-      Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
- 2/7
- Hearing cancelled
- 2/8
- Hearing 2/23 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/20
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/18
- Favorable with Amendments {126481/3 Report Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/20
- Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- 4/1
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/22
- First Reading Finance
- 3/27
- Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/28
- Hearing cancelled
-      Hearing 4/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/4
- Favorable Report by Finance
- 3/29
- Favorable Report Adopted
-      Second Reading Passed
- 3/30
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 5/22
- Approved by the Governor
-      - Chapter 535
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, District 40
- Delegate Bonnie Cullison, District 19
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Susan W. Krebs, District 9B
- Delegate Dan K. Morhaim, District 11
- Delegate Peter Murphy, District 28
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Drugs -see also- Controlled Dangerous Sub; Substance Abuse
- Health -see also- Mental Health
- Health Care Commission
- Health Insurance -see also- HMOS; Managed Care Organizations
- Health Maintenance Organizations -see also- Manage Care Orgs
- Health Occupations -see also- specific health occupations
- Hospitals -see also- Clinics; State Hospitals
- Notices
- Penalties and Sentences -see also- Death Penalty
- Pharmacy Benefits Managers
- Physicians -see also- Dentists; Med Exmnrs; Psych; etc
- Reports
- Rules and Regulations
- Telecommunications and Information Technology
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Health - General
- (
 19-101 
,
 19-108.2 
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- 
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
- Amendments:
- House 
- Number: 126481/03     Offered on: March 21, 2012      at:
12:10 p.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
- House 
- Health and Government Operations
 - Senate
- Finance
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- House 
- March 20, 2012: Third Reading Passed  (137-0)
 - Senate
- March 30, 2012: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)
 
 
 
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