| MD | HB11 | Pass | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 660 |
| MD | SB60 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for calcium score testing in accordance with the most recent guidelin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 685 |
| MD | SB156 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated patient data and expenditure per patient from programs currently operating in the State, identify certain service gaps and potent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 720 |
| MD | SB374 | Pass | Requiring counties that offer self-insured employee health benefit plans to provide to firefighters employed by the county coverage for preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines; authorizing a county to satisfy the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 656 |
| MD | HB459 | Pass | Requiring counties that offer self-insured employee health benefit plans to provide to firefighters employed by the county coverage for preventive cancer screenings in accordance with certain guidelines; authorizing a county to satisfy the requiremen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 655 |
| MD | HB666 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage in accordance with the most recent guidelines issued by the American ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 684 |
| MD | SB646 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's diabetes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 689 |
| MD | HB813 | Pass | Requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration and the Maryland Department of Health, in consultation with the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, to convene a workgroup to study and review reimbursement for pharmacists; and requiring the workgro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 730 |
| MD | SB641 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 743 |
| MD | HB970 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for insulin or an insulin analog used to treat an insured's or enrollee's Type 1, Type 2, or gestat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 688 |
| MD | SB902 | Pass | Repealing the June 30, 2025, termination date for certain provisions of law related to referrals to and reimbursement of specialists and nonphysician specialists who are not part of a carrier's provider panel; prohibiting certain carriers from imposi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 661 |
| MD | SB921 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 707 |
| MD | SB975 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered oncology...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 728 |
| MD | HB1087 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing a step therapy or fail-first protocol for certain prescription drugs prescribed by a treating physician to treat a symptom of or side eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 706 |
| MD | HB1086 | Pass | Requiring, beginning January 1, 2026, the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, managed care organizations, and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, if providing coverage for the delivery of anesthesi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 683 |
| MD | HB1355 | Pass | Altering the circumstances under which certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide coverage for medically appropriate and necessary hearing aids for adults to require coverage if the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 742 |
| MD | HB1301 | Pass | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program, the Maryland Children's Health Program, managed care organizations, and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from requiring prior authorizat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 612 |
| MD | HB1243 | Pass | Prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain specialty drugs that are administered or dispensed by a provider that is an in-network provider of covered medical ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 729 |
| MD | HB334 | Pass | Establishing the Workgroup on Universal Newborn Nurse Home Visiting Services; requiring the Workgroup to compile updated participant data and expenditure per participant from the home visiting programs currently operating in the State, compare the da...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 719 |
| MD | SB773 | Pass | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 692 |
| MD | SB474 | Pass | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring certain carriers, if the number of adverse decisions issued by the carrier for a type of service has grown by 10% or mor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 670 |
| MD | HB848 | Pass | Requiring that certain adverse decision and grievance decision notices include certain information in a certain manner; requiring that the information regarding criteria and standards for utilization review that a private review agent is required to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-20
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 669 |
| MD | SB372 | Pass | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 481 |
| MD | HB869 | Pass | Repealing the limitation on the period during which the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations are required to provide reimbursement for certain health care servi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 482 |
| MD | HB930 | Pass | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 435 |
| MD | SB848 | Pass | Establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care clinical services for individuals in the State; establishing the Public Health Abortion Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-13
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 436 |
| MD | HB1069 | Pass | Prohibiting the use of discretionary clauses in life insurance policies, health insurance policies, annuity contracts, and health maintenance organization contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-05-06
Approved by the Governor - Chapter 396 |
| MD | HB1246 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to include certain discounts, financial assistance payments, product vouchers, and other out-of-pocket expenses made by or on behalf of an insured or enr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-07
Third Reading Passed (47-0) |
| MD | HB659 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain carriers from imposing a prior authorization, step therapy, or quantity limit requirement on eligible providers for health care services that are included in a two-sided incentive arrangement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-03
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1314 | Engross
Sine Die | Prohibiting in-network health care providers from charging a fee to obtain a prior authorization from a carrier or managed care organization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB321 | Engross
Sine Die | Altering the definition of "purchaser" for the purpose of certain provisions of State insurance law governing pharmacy benefits managers to exclude certain nonprofit health maintenance organizations; requiring the Maryland Insurance Administration to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB830 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for genetic testing for certain individuals who may have an increased risk of developing cancer and follow-up evidence-based cancer i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB418 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1495 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide individuals over at least 45 years of age with coverage for certain preventive screenings for ovarian cancer, including MRI and CT scans; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1366 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for an annual cervical smear or Pap test and for surveillance tests for ovarian cancer; and prohibiting certain insurers, nonprofit h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1268 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage for the full length of long-term antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease and related tick-borne illnesses under certain circumst...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1240 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting health care providers and carriers from using artificial intelligence if the artificial intelligence has been designed only to reduce costs for a health care provider or carrier at the expense of reducing the quality of patient care, dela...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | HB1187 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations that provide coverage for chemotherapy to treat cancer to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used for the preservatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB1031 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations to provide coverage for prescription weight loss drugs for individuals who have been diagnosed with obesity and have at least...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain carriers to post updated, accurate, and complete prescription drug formularies and changes to the formularies in a certain manner on a carrier's website; and requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health mai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
Withdrawn by Sponsor |
| MD | SB961 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health services plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for single-gene and multigene pharmacogenomic testing in certain circumstances; a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB974 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, health maintenance organizations, and managed care organizations from applying a prior authorization requirement, step therapy protocol, or fail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB987 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission to maintain a registry of artificial intelligence health software that may be distributed or operated in the State; prohibiting a person from distributing or operating artificial intelligence health softw...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations, beginning on July 1, 2026, to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
To House Health and Government Operations Committee |
| MD | SB406 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses beginning January 1, 2026; defining "orthosis" as a certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB411 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for postpartum depression screening; authorizing the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB437 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement rate at which health maintenance organizations are required to pay certain nonparticipating health care providers for services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| MD | SB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Altering the reimbursement levels for drug products that the Maryland Medical Assistance Program is required to establish and that pharmacy benefits managers that contract with a pharmacy on behalf of a managed care organization are required to reimb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
