| MD | SB54 | Pass | Correcting certain incorrect cross-references for purposes of certain provisions of law relating to accountable care organizations, incentive-based compensation, and the renewal of certain health benefit plans; altering the triggering events for whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 665 |
| MD | SB52 | Pass | Altering references to certain Medicare supplement policy plans to conform with certain provisions in federal law; etc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 664 |
| MD | SB271 | Pass | Requiring, except under certain circumstances, certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for certain fertilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 716 |
| MD | SB78 | Pass | Requiring certain domestic risk retention groups to implement certain governance standards; requiring the boards of directors of certain risk retention groups to have a majority of independent directors; establishing certain standards concerning whet...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 667 |
| MD | HB908 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for certain fertility preservation procedures; providing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 715 |
| MD | SB682 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission and the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, in consultation with certain entities, jointly to develop a certain statewide plan, identify a Medicare reimbursement process, study and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 605 |
| MD | SB1001 | Pass | Altering the entities for which the State Department of Assessments and Taxation is required to waive a certain filing fee; designating the Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Board as a body politic and corporate and an instrumentality of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 596 |
| MD | SB17 | Pass | Altering a requirement that the Maryland Health Care Commission adopt certain regulations for the privacy and security of protected health information obtained or released through a health information exchange; altering the definition of a "health in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-15
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 657 |
| MD | SB33 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for instruction by a licensed health care provider on fertility awareness-based methods; prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 438 |
| MD | HB86 | Pass | Authorizing certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide reimbursement for certain services of a dietitian or nutritionist under certain circumstances for the treatment of prediabetes and obesity; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 432 |
| MD | HB249 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for instruction by a licensed health care provider on fertility awareness-based methods; prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 437 |
| MD | SB656 | Pass | Authorizing certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide reimbursement for certain services for the treatment of prediabetes and obesity; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 433 |
| MD | HB847 | Pass | Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide coverage for the medically necessary diagnosis, evaluatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 471 |
| MD | SB858 | Pass | Requiring a carrier that is an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization, except for a group model health maintenance organization, to ensure in certain standards that certain enrollees have access to local health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 488 |
| MD | HB782 | Pass | Providing that certain money in the Maryland Prepaid College Trust may not be considered money of or be commingled with the Maryland Broker-Dealer College Investment Plan or the Maryland ABLE Program; requiring the Maryland 529 Board to allow the tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 390 |
| MD | SB550 | Pass | Providing that certain money in the Maryland Prepaid College Trust may not be considered money of or be commingled with the Maryland Broker-Dealer College Investment Plan or the Maryland ABLE program; requiring the Maryland 529 Board to allow the tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 391 |
| MD | HB1132 | Pass | Requiring a carrier that is an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization, except for a group model health maintenance organization, to ensure in certain standards that certain enrollees have access to local health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 487 |
| MD | HB1024 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to ensure that the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program complies with certain provisions of the Insurance Article relating to the coverage of contraceptive drugs and devices a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 510 |
| MD | SB986 | Pass | Requiring the Secretary of Budget and Management to ensure that the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program complies with certain provisions of the Insurance Article relating to the coverage of contraceptive drugs and devices a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 511 |
| MD | HB1283 | Pass | Altering, from a 6-month to a 12-month period, the length for which a certain insurer, nonprofit health service plan, and health maintenance organization is required to provide coverage for a single dispensing of a supply of prescription contraceptiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 450 |
| MD | HB1766 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2024, the termination date of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program; altering the period of time during which the subsidy required under the Program may not exceed a certain amount; repealing the requirement that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 462 |
| MD | SB1208 | Pass | Extending to December 31, 2024, the termination date of the Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program; altering the period of time during which the subsidy required under the Program may not exceed a certain amount; repealing the requirement that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 463 |
| MD | SB207 | Pass | Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law relating to medical stop-loss insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 202 |
| MD | HB412 | Pass | Repealing the termination date of certain provisions of law relating to medical stop-loss insurance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 201 |
| MD | HB1310 | Pass | Prohibiting a carrier from imposing a limit on the number of behavioral health providers at a health care facility that may be credentialed to participate on a provider panel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 247 |
| MD | HB1400 | Pass | Providing that participation by certain organizations in the State employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program may not impede, undermine, or conflict with certain obligations or statuses; authorizing an employee of a county board to part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 307 |
| MD | HB922 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, on or before December 1, 2018, to identify a method for establishing a tip line through which a person may report an individual suspected of prescribing medication or overprescribing medication in violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-24
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 211 |
| MD | SB137 | Pass | Exempting a high-deductible health plan from the prohibition on application of a deductible to coverage for male sterilization; requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to forward a certain notice of determination within 5 days of receiving the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 65 |
| MD | HB135 | Pass | Exempting a high-deductible health plan from the prohibition on application of a deductible to coverage for male sterilization; requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to forward a certain notice of determination within 5 days of receiving the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 64 |
| MD | SB387 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, dental plan organizations, fraternal benefit organizations, managed care organizations, and certain other persons to be subject to a certain 2.75% assessmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 38 |
| MD | HB1782 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, managed care organizations, dental plans, and certain entities or persons to be subject to a certain assessment in calendar year 2019; providing the assessm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 37 |
| MD | SB1265 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with certain persons and entities to provide a comprehensive approach to school safety; requiring the School Safety Subcabinet to develop a model policy for building assessment teams; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-10
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 30 |
| MD | HB134 | Intro | Altering the factors the Maryland Insurance Commissioner is required to consider in a certain manner in determining whether to disapprove or modify a premium rate filing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB718 | Intro | Defining a "direct primary care agreement" as a written contract in which a primary care provider agrees to provide certain primary care services to a patient for a certain fee and for a certain period of time and that has certain elements; excluding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB629 | Intro | Altering a certain date to January 1, 2020, by which the State is required to discontinue a certain prescription drug benefit for certain retirees; authorizing certain retirees who participate in a certain prescription drug benefit plan with a certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-09
Unfavorable Report by Appropriations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB880 | Intro | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for certain long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumstances; prohibiting ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1201 | Intro | Prohibiting certain carriers from prohibiting an enrollee from selecting, or limiting the ability of an enrollee to select, a certain laboratory for the receipt of certain services under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain carriers, under cert...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1193 | Intro | Requiring a disciplinary panel to dismiss certain complaints against licensed physicians if either of two peer review reports makes a certain finding that a certain violation did not occur; authorizing a disciplinary panel of the State Board of Physi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-07
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1344 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in collaboration with certain entities, to study the use of certain existing behavioral health assessments to identify enrollees and insureds at risk for adverse outcomes from an appropriate course of opio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
To Senate Rules Committee |
| MD | HB1497 | Intro | Providing a credit for an employer or insurer for compensation paid to a covered employee who is temporarily totally disabled due to an accidental personal injury or an occupational disease under certain circumstances and during a certain period; and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1795 | Pass | Altering the purposes of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Fund; providing that certain funds may be used only for the purposes of the State Reinsurance Program; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Exchange, in consultation with the Maryland I...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 6 |
| MD | SB1267 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange to establish a State Reinsurance Program to provide reinsurance to carriers that offer individual health benefit plans in the State, and that is consistent with certain laws; requiring that the Program b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-05
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 7 |
| MD | HB1516 | Intro | Establishing Healthy Maryland as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal health coverage for every Maryland resident; requiring Healthy Maryland to provide certain services, a certain system, certain cho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-04-03
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1312 | Intro | Establishing the Medicaid Buy-In Task Force; providing for the purpose, composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of certain expen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1070 | Intro | Requiring a certain carrier that retroactively denies reimbursement to a certain health care provider under certain provisions of law to provide the health care provider certain notice of the retroactive denial, at least 30 days to respond to the not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1546 | Intro | Prohibiting a pharmacy benefits manager from requiring prior authorization for certain coverage of certain prescription drugs prescribed in certain situations; authorizing a pharmacy benefits manager to require a prescriber to certify certain informa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB878 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of a Medicaid buy-in program to expand the health care coverage choices available to individuals purchasing coverage; r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1504 | Intro | Establishing the Task Force to Study Reinsurance to Reduce Health Insurance Premiums; providing for the composition, cochairs, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB690 | Engross | Requiring the Maryland Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission to study and make recommendations regarding the feasibility of the State providing certain Basic Health Program coverage in the State beginning January 1, 2020; requiring the stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-26
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1016 | Engross | Providing that participation by certain organizations in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program may not impede, undermine, or conflict with certain obligations or statuses; establishing the Task Force to Study Cooperative ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
