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MDHB1074Engross
50%
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
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2024-03-28
Favorable Report by Finance
MDHB30Engross
50%
Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surprises ...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (46-0)
MDSB413Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to public accommodation, housing, employment, financial transactions, education, insurance, the provision of public utility services, and State personnel actions.
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2024-03-27
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
MDSB684Engross
50%
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (139-0)
MDSB778Engross
50%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under certain insurance policies or contracts to provide certain coverage for certain hearing aids for adults; aut...
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2024-03-27
Third Reading Passed (138-1)
MDSB614Engross
50%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to prostheses beginning January 1, 2025; establishing that certain insure...
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2024-03-19
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1259Engross
50%
Including image-guided breast biopsy in the definition of "supplemental breast examination" for the purpose of certain provisions of law requiring insurers, health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for supplement...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1337Engross
50%
Requiring carriers to report additional data on the number of members entitled to health care benefits under a policy, plan, or certificate and the number of clean claims for reimbursement processed by a carrier to Maryland Health Commissioner.
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1521Engross
50%
Altering the eligibility requirements for the Maryland Children's Health Program; and repealing the requirement that the Program be administered, based on the family income of eligible individuals, through the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and ...
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2024-03-19
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB598Engross
50%
Prohibiting discrimination based on military status with regard to housing and employment.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB932Engross
50%
Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB876Engross
50%
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 meets certain criteria; and requiring the rei...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1397Engross
50%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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2024-03-18
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDSB595Engross
50%
Requiring administrators, carriers, and pharmacy benefits managers to include certain cost sharing amounts paid by or on behalf of an enrollee or a beneficiary when calculating the enrollee's or beneficiary's contribution to a cost sharing requiremen...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB791Engross
50%
Altering and establishing requirements and prohibitions related to health insurance utilization review; altering requirements related to internal grievance procedures and adverse decision procedures; altering certain reporting requirements on health ...
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2024-03-16
[Hearing: Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm]
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1270Intro
25%
Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
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2024-03-16
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB726Engross
50%
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; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB879Engross
50%
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...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB1331Intro
25%
Requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage for massage therapy; and prohibiting the insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations from imposing...
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2024-03-13
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDSB497Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to cover nonprescription naloxone hydrochloride and any other drug or product that is approved by the federal...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1423Intro
25%
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...
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2024-03-04
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB1412Intro
25%
Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
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2024-02-15
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1376Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, managed care organizations, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for a special administrative...
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2024-02-13
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB590Intro
25%
Altering certain provisions of law prohibiting discrimination based on certain protected characteristics to include prohibitions on discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, marital status, and disability.
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2024-02-12
To Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
MDHB880Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1085Intro
25%
Altering certain reporting requirements on health insurance carriers relating to compliance with the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act; altering requirements for certain analyses of nonquantitative treatment limitations required o...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1137Intro
25%
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 for individuals who have at least three of ...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1351Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1368Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain health insurance entities from taking certain actions with respect to the dispensing of clinician-administered drugs and related services; and authorizing certain health insurance entities to allow the use of a certain pharmacy or...
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2024-02-09
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB1283Intro
25%
Prohibiting discrimination based on an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity by an insurer, an insurance producer, a surety insurer, and a health network when engaging in certain insurance-related business practices.
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2024-02-09
To House Economic Matters Committee
MDSB1019Intro
25%
Requiring that the calculation of an enrollee's contribution to a cost sharing requirement for a prescription drug be based on the list price of the drug reduced by at least 85% of the total amount of rebates received or expected to be received by th...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB1021Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB947Intro
25%
Establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program to provide grants to improve access to abortion care services for individuals in the State; establishing the Abortion Care Access Grant Program Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund to provide grants u...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB989Intro
25%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not mo...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB990Intro
25%
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...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB110Intro
25%
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take cert...
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2024-02-05
Withdrawn by Sponsor
MDHB865Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage related to orthoses and prostheses; requiring certain insurers, nonprofit health ...
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2024-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDHB939Intro
25%
Requiring insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to limit the amount a covered individual is required to pay in copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles for a covered prescription epinephrine injector to not mo...
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2024-02-05
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB93Intro
25%
Requiring that certain criteria and standards used by private review agents for health insurance utilization review relating to mental health and substance use disorder benefits meet certain requirements; requiring a private review agent to take cert...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB626Intro
25%
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; and repealing certain provisions that restrict app...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB754Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain health insurance entities from taking certain actions with respect to the dispensing of clinician-administered drugs and related services; and authorizing certain health insurance entities to allow the use of a certain pharmacy or...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Finance Committee
MDHB400Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits; and applyi...
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2024-01-26
To House Health and Government Operations Committee
MDSB124Intro
25%
Requiring the Maryland Medical Assistance Program and certain health insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations to provide coverage and certain reimbursement for annual behavioral health wellness visits.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee
MDSB526Intro
25%
Prohibiting certain pharmacy benefits managers from requiring a beneficiary to use a specific pharmacy or entity for a specialty drug if the drug is dispensed by a physician, used in the treatment of a certain condition, and meets other requirements;...
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2024-01-24
To Senate Finance Committee
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