| 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 | 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 | 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 | SB619 | Pass | Repealing a certain requirement that a health maintenance organization or a certain health care facility have a certificate of need before taking certain actions to establish a certain ambulatory surgical facility or center; altering the conditions u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 449 |
| 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 | HB1282 | Pass | Repealing a certain requirement that a health maintenance organization or a certain health care facility have a certificate of need before taking certain actions to establish a certain ambulatory surgical facility or center; altering the conditions u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-05-08
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 448 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB660 | Intro | Establishing the Office of Health Care Coverage in the Maryland Department of Health to establish and carry out the HealthcareMaryland Program to provide benefits to State residents who do not receive federal benefits through Medicare, TRICARE, plans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-30
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1274 | Intro | Requiring a utility company to give prior written notice to certain customers prior to deploying smart meters throughout all or a portion of the utility company's service territory; prohibiting a utility company from imposing any additional fee or ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-17
Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters |
| MD | HB1038 | Intro | Requiring certain health benefit plans and certain carriers to provide a special enrollment period during which certain individuals who become pregnant may enroll in a health benefit plan; establishing the duration of the special enrollment period; e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1076 | Intro | Altering the definition of "specialty drug" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing access to specialty drugs through certain pharmacies so as to include a drug designated as a limited distribution drug, a drug that is not available in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1074 | Intro | Authorizing a pharmacist or a pharmacy to decline to dispense a prescription drug or provide a pharmacy service to a member if the amount reimbursed by an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization is less than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-16
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1183 | Intro | Altering the definition of "specialty drug" for purposes of certain provisions of law governing access to specialty drugs through certain pharmacies so as to include a drug designated as a limited distribution drug, a drug that is not available in an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1290 | Intro | Authorizing a pharmacist or a pharmacy to decline to dispense a prescription drug or provide a pharmacy service to a member if the amount reimbursed by an insurer, a nonprofit health service plan, or a health maintenance organization is less than the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-12
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB1002 | 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] | 2018-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB943 | Intro | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program to provide coverage for certain hepatitis C drugs; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for certain hepatitis C drugs; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB706 | Intro | Requiring that the health care services appropriately delivered through telehealth include diagnostic and symptom management services for breast cancer delivered to a patient in a home setting for the purpose of certain provisions of law requiring ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-01
Unfavorable Report by Finance; Withdrawn |
| MD | SB702 | Intro | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain benefits to provide certain coverage for a certain behavioral health assessment and certain services provided by certain comprehensi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB1197 | Intro | Requiring that the health care services appropriately delivered through telehealth include diagnostic and symptom management services for breast cancer delivered to a patient in a home setting for the purpose of certain provisions of law requiring ce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1167 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Insurance Stabilization Fund and the Health Insurance Down Payment Escrow Fund; specifying the purposes of the funds; requiring, beginning on a certain date, an individual to maintain certain coverage for certain individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-22
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1752 | Intro | Authorizing a pharmacist who meets the requirements of certain regulations to prescribe and dispense medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as an aid for the cessation of the use of tobacco products; requiring the State Board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-21
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | HB1727 | Intro | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring as a condition of coverage for certain infertility treatments that the patient be married or in a relationship with another individual; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-19
To House Rules and Executive Nominations Committee |
| MD | SB385 | Intro | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer under certain policies or contracts from imposing certain cost-sharing requirements on cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB1011 | Intro | Establishing the Maryland Insurance Stabilization Fund and the Health Insurance Down Payment Escrow Fund; specifying the purposes of the funds; requiring, beginning on a certain date, an individual to maintain certain coverage for certain individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-08
Reassigned to Finance and Budget and Taxation |
| MD | SB169 | Intro | Requiring the Secretary of Health to convene a workgroup to study the advisability of the State forming a generic drugs and medical supplies purchasing cooperative and establishing Maryland as an open formulary State; requiring the workgroup to repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB282 | Intro | Prohibiting insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer under certain policies or contracts from imposing certain cost-sharing requirements on cove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB174 | 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; and applying the Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
To Senate Finance Committee |
